fat/gulliable girl is brainwashed
she is told to be cautious/worry about things all the time, even little things
like her stool
or they will send her to "reformatory" school - a school where they will change
her completely
into a man, because a woman who doesn't worry is no good? so they'll have a boy
instead? - guessing here
in the bedroom she is supposed to be "bold" but "not too bold" - refers perhaps
to the expectation that women should want sex (or appear to), but not to please
themselves,
and they should come onto guys but should not force him or exert any kind of control
over a man
and that everything she does should be "framed in gold" = nice and pretty and rich
similarly in the market place - to sell something she must be "bold but not too bold"
( could be about the mixed messages women in the workplace are given:
be good at your job, but not too good? - really guessing there though) and again they
must be "framed in gold" - pretty and rich at all times
"lets sing a song about a woman's rage" This idea makes her angry
"you're tough, for a girl and you're smart, for a girl" expectation that a woman
will be less tough and less smart than she is - sexism in compliments
any compliments she is given always have sexism mixed with them
and she should care about this - she should "concern" herself "with the invisible"
and not conform to what they want her to do: give up the marketplace and have a kid
she has been "blinded", brainwashed into "motherhood" by their "words, words, words"
While she keeps silent about these troubles, even though she should sing about it,
(fill my stomach with your singing) she won't, so Owen will instead "And though you try to hide it, we will write it!"
fat/gulliable girl is brainwashed she is told to be cautious/worry about things all the time, even little things like her stool or they will send her to "reformatory" school - a school where they will change her completely into a man, because a woman who doesn't worry is no good? so they'll have a boy instead? - guessing here in the bedroom she is supposed to be "bold" but "not too bold" - refers perhaps to the expectation that women should want sex (or appear to), but not to please themselves, and they should come onto guys but should not force him or exert any kind of control over a man and that everything she does should be "framed in gold" = nice and pretty and rich similarly in the market place - to sell something she must be "bold but not too bold" ( could be about the mixed messages women in the workplace are given: be good at your job, but not too good? - really guessing there though) and again they must be "framed in gold" - pretty and rich at all times "lets sing a song about a woman's rage" This idea makes her angry "you're tough, for a girl and you're smart, for a girl" expectation that a woman will be less tough and less smart than she is - sexism in compliments any compliments she is given always have sexism mixed with them and she should care about this - she should "concern" herself "with the invisible" and not conform to what they want her to do: give up the marketplace and have a kid she has been "blinded", brainwashed into "motherhood" by their "words, words, words" While she keeps silent about these troubles, even though she should sing about it, (fill my stomach with your singing) she won't, so Owen will instead "And though you try to hide it, we will write it!"