I love this album, but this song is realllly insulting. Maybe if you didn't need to date the type of woman obsessed with her dress size in order to feel like a man, you would not have this disconnect? Also, I find both men and women do not like the advice that they ask for.
@margaretsh But, the song could be commenting on that. You are probably meant to infer from the lyrics the old narrative that "women play mind games" when love itself is the mind game (it is brain chemistry). And then the "chemistry that makes you stupid" is talking about testosterone, the large amount of which causes male body parts to develop in the fetus in the womb, and testosterone increases during puberty to help build muscle, increase sex drive, and increase aggression. All of which are the definitive qualities of the so-called "rational sex."We were already alluding to logic and...
@margaretsh But, the song could be commenting on that. You are probably meant to infer from the lyrics the old narrative that "women play mind games" when love itself is the mind game (it is brain chemistry). And then the "chemistry that makes you stupid" is talking about testosterone, the large amount of which causes male body parts to develop in the fetus in the womb, and testosterone increases during puberty to help build muscle, increase sex drive, and increase aggression. All of which are the definitive qualities of the so-called "rational sex."We were already alluding to logic and reason with the refrain,
"If you think the sky is blue or the grass is green
Open up your eyes, see what I mean."
This is another play on the concept that women are irrational (or more irrational than men). It actually takes a lot of intelligence, reason, observation, and imagination to see that experience is subjective, and therefore you have to attempt to see what another person means rather than insisting that anyone who does not see things as you do are crazy/ less than.
Or the author of this song is reaaally terrible at relationships.
I love this album, but this song is realllly insulting. Maybe if you didn't need to date the type of woman obsessed with her dress size in order to feel like a man, you would not have this disconnect? Also, I find both men and women do not like the advice that they ask for.
@margaretsh But, the song could be commenting on that. You are probably meant to infer from the lyrics the old narrative that "women play mind games" when love itself is the mind game (it is brain chemistry). And then the "chemistry that makes you stupid" is talking about testosterone, the large amount of which causes male body parts to develop in the fetus in the womb, and testosterone increases during puberty to help build muscle, increase sex drive, and increase aggression. All of which are the definitive qualities of the so-called "rational sex."We were already alluding to logic and...
@margaretsh But, the song could be commenting on that. You are probably meant to infer from the lyrics the old narrative that "women play mind games" when love itself is the mind game (it is brain chemistry). And then the "chemistry that makes you stupid" is talking about testosterone, the large amount of which causes male body parts to develop in the fetus in the womb, and testosterone increases during puberty to help build muscle, increase sex drive, and increase aggression. All of which are the definitive qualities of the so-called "rational sex."We were already alluding to logic and reason with the refrain, "If you think the sky is blue or the grass is green Open up your eyes, see what I mean." This is another play on the concept that women are irrational (or more irrational than men). It actually takes a lot of intelligence, reason, observation, and imagination to see that experience is subjective, and therefore you have to attempt to see what another person means rather than insisting that anyone who does not see things as you do are crazy/ less than. Or the author of this song is reaaally terrible at relationships.