Misandry in the Least Likely of Places

ifeminists.net ^ | August 1, 2007 | Carey Roberts

[wideawake]

There is an interesting gulf between the lyrical message of "Jesus Take The Wheel" and "Before He Cheats."

[mvpel]

He’s a little behind the times - “Some Hearts” was released in November 2005, and “Before He Cheats” was released as a single in August 2006, and it’s been on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for nearly a year.

[trisham]

Conservative women appreciate the men in their lives. It’s liberal women who are angry and hostile.

[lesser_satan]

The song in question is about her trashing her cheating boyfriend’s vehicle, not bashing men in general. I agree there’s a lot of misandry in society today, but don’t think that song is a very good example.

[massgopguy]

I like her using a Louisville Slugger instead of thosee commie aluminum bats.

[dmz]

Too funny.

Lack of faithfulness is pretty much a staple in country music. I guess this guy never heard of Loretta Lynn or Patsy Cline? They were singing this stuff before “women’s lib” entered our vocabulary.

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

“know her? We dated maybe two-three times. She was one of those crazy obsessive types. Jealous when I didn’t even know her. I had to get away from her. She would show up at my work screaming how I was ‘cheating” with some bubble-headed bleach blonde. It has culminated in this - wrecked paint, ruined upholstery and a maniac coming after me. Lucky she doesn’t know my address. I am still looking over my shoulder.”

[MIT-Elephant]

“Trashing your boyfriend’s car has little to do with sugar and spice and everything nice. But it’s the title — “Before He Cheats” — that turns this song into a bitter gender tirade. Just imagine a male star reaching platinum for crooning, “Before She Aborts.””

Someone needs to listen to the song. She does all this sh** AFTER the dude cheats...the title is part of a longer lyric “next time he’ll think before he cheats.” (also “next time it won’t be on me.”)

Way to take something out of context miss big feminist.

[Valpal1]

Pretty clear the writer hasn’t listened to the song, since he misrepresents the plotline of the song.

There is a ton of misandry, mysogyny and misanthropy in a lot of music these days, but it generally isn’t country music.

[Revolting cat!]

So, that's another post-feminist man hating country hit. First it was Independence Day (Martina), then Goodbye Earl (Ditzies), now this. Were they all written by females? Just the other day I noticed that it is men who write heartbreak songs, while females write something like You've got a friend (Carole King), which is a variation on the old breakup line "let's be friends". But then, I could be wrong.

[longtermmemmory]

She ONLY SUSPECTS, no proof.

IOW he did not do what the female dog wants and therefore she is ENTITLED to engage in juvenile property damages as appropriate punshiment for making her suspect he was cheating.

Stupid song for stupid women.

[mvpel]

I think Cletus T. Judd ought to do a send-up of this song from the guy’s perspective - talking about how he was out with his sister and his crazy girlfriend trashed his truck or some such.

[Revolting cat!]

Loretta would sing something like Don't come home a-drinking, with lovin' on your mind. Then there was a song a decade or two ago about the woman building a bar inside their house, so he would feel at home. Humour, love and a desire to continue and repair relationships. But the three I mention above are misandry, plain and simple!

[untrained skeptic]

Dial up your local Country and Western station and you may soon find your fingers tapping out the beat of Carrie Underwood's latest hit, "Before He Cheats." Underwood suspects her boyfriend is probably cheating on her (in matters of infidelity, I guess "probably" is proof enough).

Too bad Carey Roberts doesn't bother to read the lyrics or watch the video.

In the song she is quite sure he is cheating on her. The "before he cheats" is part of the line "Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats."

Songs titles tend to to be short fragments from the lyrics, not a synopsis.

[Christian4Bush]

There was a song a few years ago, called “When I think about cheating”, or something like that. I had a girlfriend back then, and both she and I liked country music. It seemed like every time I turned on the radio station, that song was playing. (No, it wasn’t prescient!)

[mvpel]

In the song, she says “probably” six times. She’s sure he’s cheating, but we the listeners don’t know whether or not he actually is.

[cherry]

and lets face it....better for some angry woman to beat up a stupid car then do what a lot of men do....beat up and kill women and kill their children as well, just to make a point....

[Redbob]

“Misandry”

I always wondered what the opposite of “Misogeny” was.
Not enough to actually look it up, but I did wonder.

[Redbob]

"He’s a little behind the times - “Some Hearts” was released in November 2005..."

I'm not sure that the Carrie Underwood song is the primary subject of this article...