Posted on 04/06/2023 1:41:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Exactly what I was going to post.
Seemed to perpetuate the idea that being poor means you have no morals, you’ll pimp out your daughter to a rich guy.
Yeah, pimping our your kid isn’t exactly equality. Even Reba couldn’t put lipstick on that pig.
“Women’s Liberation” was a lie told to poor women by rich women to get them to stop having babies.
The gentlemen will be nice to you - until they don’t want to pay you, or want to beat you up, abuse you or kill you. How was Fancy supposed to know who the safe “gentlemen” were?
Women’s Lib and the Women’s Movement have brought women down to hell and society with it.
This will all get fixed when Jesus returns as Lord and King with us soon (near the end of this century IMO).
Then, women will be women and men will be men. Women will be equal with men in VALUE but NOT equal with men in in ROLE.
And we will have Peace on Earth...
That said, 'Fancy' was a bold statement for a woman to be making in 1969 (before you could utter the word "pregnant" on television) but I have to say I prefer Reba's remake because of the sheer power of her voice. That woman can nail a note to the wall.
It's a dreadful song. It never even occurred to me that it was somehow empowering to women. I just viewed the story as a desperate mother tossing her daughter to the wolves. Was the mother even married to the father(s) of her children? To come up with prostituting her own child seemed more like a cyclical situation in their family tree.
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
I thought they were making another movie about Patsy Cline.
Never heard of it, and my opinion of Bobbie Gentry has changed 180°.
What did you throw off that bridge Bobbi
A macguffin?
No. Womens' Lib, and the ever expanding social welfare state, is necessary to avoid poor people having to prostitute themselves.
It was a lie, of course ...
Now we have "poor" women prostituting themselves to get welfare ...
Is that what she thought at the time or what she decided on later?
It’s possible that the song could have been intended to be tragic or horrifying, and when it turned out not to be popular, she tried to push it as an anthem of women’s lib.
And today’s tranny movement - with males posing as females and competing against girls/women in sports - is the end result of forcing your daughter to be a prostitute. Where are all the feminists now?
It’s why Hefner supported women’s lib, abortion and “free love”
It made women compete to the lowest common denominator.
Have sex before the other girl does to get the boy you think you love.
It’s been downhill ever since. Made Hefner a rich pervert and 40yr old woman single,barren and bitter.
While men get off relatively easy.
There was nothing bold about it. Women prostituting their daughters is a story old as the hills. (It was a legal method of old age insurance in Roman times)
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