Saturated with sex stereotypes gender roles reinforce inferiority

Exploiting anatomy, exploiting sexuality, preying on insecurities

Force fed proper mannerisms, treated different from the date of birth

Raised as men's servants who should never question their own sense of worth



Conditioning children with anorexic plastic of 'perfect' feminine traits

Learning how to hide any blemishes, meeting standards men create

Painting flesh like painting a picture that subliminally suggests

To equally conditioned men that women are just there for sex

Striving to achieve the super model image the media project

Spending countless hours enhancing a look instead of self respect

Eating disorders insuring beauty and endangering health

When living life behind a mask you cant expect to know yourself

When women are taught one way to act and men are taught another

The ability to accept and tolerate is absent from each other

Without understanding or communication the result too often is

Bigotry by ignorance unintended prejudice

Any man that would treat a woman as property you keep

is nothing but an ignorant bigot that can only see skin deep

having a relationship of inequality, treating a woman as a possession

taking advantage of devotion using emotions as a weapon

violating another's personal rights as if they never mattered

every day that begins with this conditioning ends with another woman battered

taught how to act, taught how to think

taught how to feel, told by another gender

sexist appeal dehumanizes women molding an image

making the body more important then what the person is

taught to pretend, taught to please

taught to conceal, told that you must surrender

sexist appeal demoralizes men, distoriting their view

making the body the most important part to pursue

initiating a chase that relies on deception

hoping persistant efforts will overcome rejection

conditioned by images lusting for sex

haunting men's thoughts of who they'll bed next

taught how to act, taught how to think

taught how to feel, told by another gender

sexist appeal dehumanizes women by abusing sexuality

another person's body shouldn't be viewed as a trophy

taught to pretend, taught to please

taught how to feel, told that you must surrender

sexist appeal demoralizes men, encouraging rape

another persons body is never for anyone else to take

treating a fellow person without any respect

condemning behavior as if the woman asked for it

society's distorted our judgement with what they suggest

why take no for an answer when no really means yes



[Woman's part]

we've heard it all so many times before

stop treating women like some trashy cheap whore

or a virgin that must lead to a sterile life

a surrogate mother under the disguise of the word wife

they make the rules but yet they don't play fair

forcing sexual stereotypes that make us all aware

of every single one of our failures in the eyes of society

telling me that I'm not quite what I'm supposed to be

I'm not married with two children or single with a career

I'm not drowning in some mortagage or living in financial fear

I don't cower as I walk home all alone throughout the streets

I refuse to be treated like a piece of trumped up meat

I turn away from the billboards that extol the latest fad

Of looking like a junkie in the Calvin Klein ad

Now its time to get beyond all of our rage and pointing fingers

To see through the lies no matter how much it lingers



[Man's part]

As long as I can remember ive been a victim of mans lies

And in turn ive victimized women through ignorant naive eyes

When overlooking personality in the person im seeing

Then my attraction becomes the exploitation of another human being

In my heart I know equality but conditioning affects my brain

So without complete understanding oppression will remain

For as enlightened as I may consider myself I still have much to learn

And since actually achieving equality still is a concern

I must open my mind to the opinions that women would suggest

Because theyre the ones who understand sexual oppression best

As a man im part of the problem that's something I must accept

Unless through education I can evolve towards a mutual respect

Everyone of us should realize how our struggle now relates

And how as equals we can destroy what society dictates

We can hopefully find a way to respectfully co-exist

And then eliminate the biggest prejudice that exists



[Both together]

because this is not about man vs. woman or woman vs. man

but human to human as we struggle to understand

were living life suspiciously believing there's no one we can trust

theyre dividing the population the system is destroying us

profiting from this division and the line of thinking that's been bought

if equality is ever to exist we have to unlearn what weve been taught

bigotry by ignorance unintended prejudice