Awful, stupid and sexist songs that would not see the light of day today

"She's A Lady"- Tom Jones; "Under My Thumb"- Rolling Stones

"Having My Baby" by Paul Anka. It's hilarious and horrifying at the same time.

"Young Girl", "Lady Willpower", and pretty much anything by Gary Puckett, unctuous lounge lizard.

Well, there's always this timeless favorite *cough* *cough*.

"For the love of him, make him your reason for living, give all the love you can give him..."

Really???

Ugh.

WOW - some real peaches in here. Glad I am not the only one who feels that these songs would be toast today. Keep 'em coming!

Not necessarily sexist, but everytime I hear this song by David Soul all I think is, "Kicked pregnant girlfriend".

If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal If her daddy's poor just do what you feel.

Run for Your Life ("Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl Than to be with another man You better keep your head, little girl Or I won't know where I am')

I Saw Her Standing There ("Well she was just seventeen You know what I mean.")

"A Hundred Pounds of Clay" by Gene McDaniel

"Take a Letter Maria" by R.B. Greaves

"Looking for a Love" by The J. Geils Band by way of Bobby Womack

OMG, R5....that song literally makes my jaw drop whenever I hear it.

Wildflower by Skylark makes me feel all oogie.

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

"Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"

Rappers got you all beat with the sexism, folks. This is just a more old-fashioned kind.

"Everything she does...she does for me."

"Ghetto Child" by The Spinners

Pity, since it's a great song.

r4, that was a song created for and marketed to teenagers, written from the perspective of a teenage boy. Adults didn't even listen to rock 'n' roll back then. I find nothing creepy or sexist about the lyrics; plenty of female singers in that time period used the phrase "you're mine" or refered to their subjects as "mine."

Something like r15's example ("Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"), though, is clearly written from the perspective of a fully-grown lecher in a relationship where there is an unhealthy power imbalance.

"Stand by your Man" "As Long as He needs Me"

"Keeper of the Castle" by The Four Tops is a great song with one icky line.

"You're the Keeper of the Castle

So be a good man to your lady

The creator of the sunshine in her day

In the garden that you seeded

be a friend when a friend is needed."

Show him that you care just for him

Do the things he likes to do

Wear your hair just for him, cause

You won't get him

Thinkin' and a-prayin'

Wishin'and a-hopin'

For r19

Gilbert O'Sullivan.

A Woman's Place Is In The Home.

Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan

"killed me when I saw the wet patch on your seat/wasn't coca cola"

Johnny I said we were through

Just to see what you would do

You stood there, and hung your head

Made me wish that I were dead

Oh, Johnny get angry

Johnny get mad

Give me the biggest lecture that I ever had

I want a brave man, I want a cave man

Johnny show me that you care, really care for me

Phil Spector, of course, owns this thread.

He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)

Phil Spector's way of weasling out of a contract by fulfilling it with garbage that he knew wouldn't sell. Ironically, it didn't do bad - but wasn't as hot as the Crystals were at the moment.

The weirdest thing wasthat the song was written by Carole King (music) and Gerry Goffin (lyrics - sick bastard or funny guy?)

Of course, now it's a cult hit, re-recorded by Hole and Amy W. (of course, pretty fucked up people) and an ode to S&M.

So I guess this doesn't meet OP's req's after all

i don't know about the premise of this thread.

"Smack My Bitch Up" from Prodigy was the late 90s, and i heard it played in nightclubs and on the radio all the time. that wasnt all that long ago.

i think those lyrics kind of out-do "She's Having My Baby" in sexism, wouldn't you say?

r28 HI!

Hi R27, saw your post after I posted mine!

"Gerry Goffin (lyrics - sick bastard or funny guy?)"

I was shocked, when I read "Girls Like Us" by Sheila Weller, to find out just how mentally ill, miserable, and dangerous this man was. He was, however, very cute when young.

"Queen of the House",Jody Miller's answer to Roger Miller's "King of the Road".

I win. At least for the video.

"Cook of the House" by Linda McCartney and Wings.

Great video r33. The Supremes covered this song. It's in their "Supremes At the Copa" album.

There was an actual "song duel" in the early fifties when Hank Thompson wrote a Country Western classic called "The Wild Side of Life." It's about a woman who "found the glitter of the gay night life to hard to resist." She leaves the only man who ever loved her and becomes a bewitching party gal as noted in the line, "I didn't know God made honky tonk angels."

The song was a huge hit. It gave birth to another hit when female Country star Kitty Wells borrowed the melody and wrote a response lyric entitled "It wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels." Miss Kitty lays the blame for good girls going wrong squarely at the feet of married men who think they're still single.

R27 and R28 - OMG - I never heard of that song and could not believe what the lyrics were. Awful song, awful premise. I cannot believe how many warped songs there are out there.

But if you make an ugly woman your wife You'll be happy for the rest of your life An ugly woman cooks her meals on time She'll always give you peace of mind.

Too Fat Polka

Ain't Gonna Bump No More With No Big Fat Woman

"If I Were a Carpenter." Bleah.

Ain't Nobody's Business - Ike & Tina

"If me and my man have to sleep in the street,

Live on soup & crackers seven days a week

It ain't nobody's business what me and my man do.

If he likes women and likes to blow his dough

and I get out in the streets & have to get some more

It ain't nobody's business what me and my man do."

"Run Joey Run" (Daddy please don't, we're gonna get married...)

R21--of course that song received new life when used on Will and Grace, along with appalling gay stereotypes ( ;-) ) and featuring DL fave M. Damon. No clip on You Tube, unfortunately.

"Wives and Lovers" - Jack Jones

Hey! Little Girl

Comb your hair, fix your makeup

Soon he will open the door

Don't think because there's a ring on your finger

You needn't try anymore

For wives should always be lovers too

Run to his arms the moment he comes home to you

I'm warning you...

Day after day

There are girls at the office

And men will always be men

Don't send him off with your hair still in curlers

You may not see him again

...

Hey! Little Girl

Better wear something pretty

Something you'd wear to go to the city and

Dim all the lights, pour the wine, start the music

Time to get ready for love

This isn't as bad as some of the songs on here.

5th dimension "one less bell to answer"

Honey by Bobby Goldsboro

Basically, she was dumb but pretty but now she's dead but I remember her wet snatch.

Girl Talk by Bobby Troup

They like to chat about the dresses they will wear tonight,

they chew the fat about their tresses and the neighbor's fight.

Inconsequential things that men don't really care to know

become essential things that women find so "appropos".

But that's a dame, they're all the same.

It's just a game, they call it girl talk, girl talk.

They all meow about the ups and downs of all their friends,

the "who", the "how", the "why", they dish the dirt, it never ends.

The weaker sex, the speaker sex we mortal males behold

but tho' we joke we wouldn't trade them for a ton of gold.

So baby, stay and gab a way

but hear me say that after girl talk talk to me.

Somebody should do a show of just the 1960s - early '70s material.

TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE, the ultimate door-mat song:

I've been trying to make you love me But everything I try just takes you further from me You don't love me, and so you treat me cruel But no matter you hurt me, I'll always be your fool

If you don't want me forever If you don't need me forever If you don't love me forever Take me for a little while so I could hold you, baby (Take me for a little while) So I could make you want me

I've got to stop it, there should be a law Cause everytime you put me down, I want you more Oh, I feel so helpless, and it ain't funny Cause deep inside I know you're never gonna love me

If you don't want me forever If you don't need me forever If you don't love me forever Take me for a little while so I could hold you, baby (Take me for a little while) So I could make you want me

(Take me for a little while) So I could hold you, baby (Take me for a little while) So I could make you want me (Take me for a little while) You know I got to have you (Take me for a little while) You know I'll do anything for you (Take me for a little while, take me for a little while)

Take anything you want (Take me for a little while) Take anything you need (Take me for a little while) You know I want you dear (Take me for a little while) Do anything for you (Take me for a little while)

R38, there's nothing wrong with that song. I'm a committed feminist who loved that song when I was 16, & I still love it now that I'm somewhat older. Very funny (& true) lyrics, with a good beat that you can dance to.

I'm a girl, and by me that's only great!

I am proud that my silhouette is curvy,

That I walk with a sweet and girlish gait

With my hips kind of swivelly and swervy.

I adore being dressed in something frilly

When my date comes to get me at my place.

Out I go with my Joe or John or Billy,

Like a filly who is ready for the race!

When I have a brand new hairdo

With my eyelashes all in curl,

I float as the clouds on air do,

I enjoy being a girl!

When men say I'm cute and funny

And my teeth aren't teeth, but pearl,

I just lap it up like honey

I enjoy being a girl!

I flip when a fellow sends me flowers,

I drool over dresses made of lace,

I talk on the telephone for hours

With a pound and a half of cream upon my face!

I'm strictly a female female

And my future I hope will be

In the home of a brave and free male

Who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl... like... me.

When men say I'm sweet as candy

As around in a dance we whirl,

It goes to my head like brandy,

I enjoy being a girl!

When someone with eyes that smoulder

Says he loves ev'ry silken curl

That falls on my ivory shoulder,

I enjoy being a girl!

When I hear the compliment'ry whistle

That greets my bikini by the sea,

I turn and I glower and I bristle,

But I'm happy to know the whistle's meant for me!

I'm strictly a female female

And my future I hope will be

In the home of a brave and free male

Who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl... like... me.

Fuck you with a fork, R50! I do not fucking appreciate having that piece of shit song thrown into my goddamn face like Bill Bixby's fucking ballsack! Listen close, dipshits: the next one of you cocksuckers who reminds me of that bony skank cunt or her fucking songs gets my goddamn petite foot up their motherfucking asshole!!

Anybody old enough to remember this one, from Arthur Godfrey? At our house, it was on an old 78, on the flip side of the "Too Fat Polka".

"We Gotta Get You A Woman" by Todd Rundgren

Referring to women, "They may be stupid but they sure are fun."

Some of these mornin's, goin' to wake up crazy / Gonna grab my gun, gonna kill my baby / Nobody's business but mine / Ain't nobody's doggone business, how my baby's treatin' me / Nobody's business but my own

"You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" by Dusty Springfield

I love the Velvet Underground and this song was ahead of its time talking about domestic abuse but it wouldn't get put on an album today.

There she goes again She's out on the streets again She's down on her knees, my friend But you know she'll never ask you please again Now take a look, there's no tears in her eyes She won't take it from just any guy, what can you do You see her walkin' on down the street Look at all your friends she's gonna meet You better hit her There she goes again She's knocked out on her feet again She's down on her knees, my friend But you know she'll never ask you please again Now take a look, there's no tears in her eyes Like a bird, you know she would fly, what can you do You see her walkin' on down the street Look at all your friends that she's gonna meet You better hit her

This one-

Follow Me by John Denver:

Follow me where I go what I do and who I know

Make it part of you to be a part of me

Follow me up and down all the way and all around

Take my hand and say you’ll follow me

In other word, how to be a Stepford wife.

And the most atrociously sexist song asking a woman to be a doormat, Lou Christie's "Lightening Strikes":

Nature's takin' over my one-track mind

Believe it or not, you're in my heart all the time

All the girls are sayin' that you'll end up a fool

For the time being, baby, live by my rules

When I settle down

I want one baby on my mind

Forgive and forget

And I'll make up for all lost time

If she's put together fine

And she's readin' my mind (stop)

Miyoshi, darling, you must be going batty. You didn't sing that song;Pat Suzuki did.And in the movie, it was Nancy Kwan.

" I would kiss the ground she walks on, 'cause it's my word, my word she'll obey. Ain't no woman like the one I got..."

You're right, R29. The title of the thread should have been, "Awful, stupid and sexist songs that would not see the light of day today IN THE POP GENRE, even though there are lots of rap songs with even more sexist, mysoginist lyrics."

Charlene's "I've Never Been To Me". Somehow the song extolled the virtues of marriage and motherhood over movin' like Harlow in Monte Carlo...

Aunt Jemamah was a fish, e i e i o.

My baby takes the morning train He works from nine till five and then He takes another home again To find me waitin' for him

Ringo Starr pedophilia

R29 smack my bitch up was not about beating up a woman or anyone but it was about shooting up heroin.

"Kiss and Say Goodbye" and "Sad Eyes". Both songs are sung by a guy who's dumping his mistress. The gist of them both is this: "hey, I feel really bad about this, I really enjoyed fucking you, but so long, goodbye, and I'm sure you'll find somebody else."

"Me and Mrs. Jones...we got a thing goin' on"...the "thing" is that they're both married and are screwing around on their spouses. And it so SAD that they have to sneak around in order to express their love for each other, that is, fuck. Yech!

"Torn Between Two Lovers." A song where a woman is cheating on her boyfriend, telling him "there's been another man that I've needed and I've loved" and whines "torn between two lovers, feelin' like a fool." She's a fool, alright! A slutty fool.

"Woman to Woman." I can't remember who did this song but it will make you want to vomit. There's a spoken intro where a woman is calling a woman whose phone number she found on a piece of paper in her "man's" pocket. She tells the woman "he's mine." And goes on to say that she pays for his car and his clothes and his other bills and since she does all that it should be obvious that he belongs to her. And warns the woman about "how much I'll do to keep him." UGH!

I love the lyrics from Woman to Woman. Hilarious.

"Now Barbara, I don't know how you're going to take this, if you're going to be cool or come out of a bag on me."

"An' woman to woman, I'll think you understand..."

Don't forget "As We Lay" by Shirley Murdock:

I don't want her, you can have her

She's too fat for me

Two or three girls has he

That he likes as well as me

But I love him!

I don't know why I should

He isn't good

He isn't true

He beats me too

What can I do?

Why not title the thread, "Songs PC kooks would censor today"?

Bobby Sherman: Hey Little Girl

Hey little girl it's time to make up your mind.

You've got to come into my world

And leave your world behind.

I mean "Hey Little Woman". Long time ago.

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned "Into The Night" by Benny Mardones. It's a great song. He had a fantastic voice, but was a one hit wonder, due to his lack of sex appeal (he's homely as a troll) and bad behavior.

The song starts out with this: "She's just sixteen years old...leave her alone they say. Separated by fools who don't know what love is yet." A lot of people interpret this song as the lament of an adult male who is fixated on a teenage girl. But I never saw it that way. I always thought the song was sung from the perspective of a teenage boy, maybe a year or two older than the girl, who is being kept away from his teenage love, a kind of Romeo and Juliet situation. But since Mardones had such a powerful voice it must have seemed like it was a grown man lusting after an underage girl. Anyway, I really like the song.

R67, I just heard "Woman to Woman" on the radio - I think it was WBGO - the other week. Had never heard it before. I'm not sure I'd call it exactly sexist, but it left me why the hell either woman would want that loser!

I don't think "Me and Mrs. Jones" is sexist. It's a song about cheating. Many of us have been there at one time or another. Same with "Torn Between Two Lovers" - I think you're being a bit judgmental. The sentiments in those songs could apply to either gender.

This song "Sick Again" by Led Zeppelin.

Hey 19 isn't sexist. It's making fun of middle-aged losers who date younger women.

"I don't think "Me and Mrs. Jones" is sexist. It's a song about cheating. Many of us have been there at one time or another. Same with "Torn Between Two Lovers" - I think you're being a bit judgmental. The sentiments in those songs could apply to either gender."

I don't think those songs are sexist. I think they're awful and stupid.

r79 apparently thinks it's virtuous to hate some people but terrible to hate others.

"Hey Girl" is a creepy early Van Morrison song:

"Hey girl, you're so young, I don't know what to do"

"Little child, I want to walk your dog."

The last line is the best/worst:

"Hey, there goes your baby sister..."

Interesting thread - not everyone paid a lot of attention to the purpose, but this is DL after all...

Minor quibble, OP - Dreams of the Everyday Housewife was a hit for Glenn Campbell, not Jack Jones. July of 1968 to be exact...

Randy Newman -- Short People

"Randy Newman -- Short People"

"Short People" was a parody. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously. But a lot of dense people took it literally and there were even some protest events about it. How can anybody be so stupid as to take seriously a song that has these lyrics: "they got little cars going beep, beep, beep - they got little voices going peep, peep, peep."

"(My Baby Takes The) Morning Train" by Sheena Easton

(sorry if this has been posted already)

r85, possibly because this culture pushes the idea that tall = desirable, short = not desirable. And there was no song bashing tall people, no matter how humorously.

It's amazing that people don't get this. Imagine a song about another non-chosen characteristic where people with it are humorously ridiculed. How about a non-chosen characteristic like race. A song ripping "Negro People" would go over well, wouldn't it?

"Bill", a song about a woman who finds out her man is having mansex with his best friend. She even calls him a "queen" in the song! Offensive.

66: That song is the J.A.P. National Anthem.

R87, that was the point. It was exactly about how silly the ways we choose to define and value each other are.

With that said, as a Randy Newman fan I wish it didn't exist, because it's a stupid joke and it eclipses a lot of his much better work.

'Jimmy Please Say You’ll Wait For Me' (officially called 'Don't cry') About a fifteen year old girl with a crush on a guy of 22. She wants him to wait for her to grow up. He doesn't wait, so she goes off with his best friend John. Added 'ick' factor is that it was sung as a duet between Conway Twitty and his daughter Joni, who was 16 at the time.

Johnny Angel.

I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen.

r88, that's the campiest song, evah from the last two decades! Bravo for posting it. Extra points for the hubby and Bill being so hot.

Lightning Strikes

Listen to me, baby

You got to understand

You're old enough

To know the makings of a man

Listen to me, baby

It's hard to settle down

Am I asking too much

For you to stick around

Every boy wants a girl

He can trust to the very end

Baby, that's you

Won't you wait but til then

When I see lips

Begging to be kissed (stop)

I can't stop (stop)

I can't stop myself (stop, stop)

Lightnin's striking again

Lightnin's striking again

Nature's taking over

My one-track mind

Believe it or not

You're in my heart all the time

All the girls are saying

That you'll end up a fool

For the time being, baby

Live by the rules

When I settle down

I want one baby on my mind

Forgive and forget

And I'll make up for all lost time

If she's put together fine

And she's reading my mind (stop)

I can't stop (stop)

I can't stop myself (stop, stop)

Lightnin's striking again

Lightnin's striking again

And again and again and again

Lightnin's striking again

Lightnin's striking again

There's a chapel in the pines

Waiting for us around the bend

Picture in your mind

Love forever, but til then

If she gives me a sign

That she wants to make time (stop)

I can't stop (stop)

I can't stop myself (stop, stop)

Lightnin's striking again

Lightnin's striking again

And again and again and again

"It's a Man's World " by James Brown

I win, thread closed.

oh yeah, and every single rap and hip-hop song ever made.

Klymaxx -- Meeting in the Ladies Room

The gist of which is I heard my man is at the club flirting with a bunch of girls and rather than hold him accountable, I'm going down there to beat those hos up.

No, not sexist in the traditional context. But, songs that put men on an alter to be worshiped while simultaneously blaming women for the man's poor behavior make me just as sick.

"Saving all My love for you" - about a woman just waiting around for her married lover to find the time of day for her.

OP, these songs would never see the light of day today because they are stylistically out of date.

But certainly not because they are awful, stupid or sexist. They may be all of those things, but so is much new on the airwaves.

I agree, R99.

Shameful of me, but I always loved that song, R97, especially the line you used as your signature.

no worries r101, I secretly love the spoken portions of that song as well. But if I stop to think about the lyrics I just get sick. I mean why not dump the guy and find someone who won't run around flirting with other women and flaunting it in your face?

Oh no, it's much better to "come down to the level of becoming a BW, a basic woman!"

Yes, I secretly love that line too. I guess songs have changed a bit in this regard, though they still advocate irrational behavior at least the women singing them are blaming the men as much as the other women.

Carrie Underwood - Before he Cheats

Jasmine Sullivan - Bust the Windows out Ya Car.

Small steps, but not exactly in the right direction. Then again who wants to hear a song about someone reacting rationally and appropriately to a bad situation?

S

R25, Bon Scott wrote the most gloriously stupid lyrics in the history of rock. RIP.

[quote]Oh! She had the face of an angel, smilin' with sin, the body of Venus with arms

Gary Puckett specialized in the topic of this thread:

I love "Lightning Strikes" if only because furry-chested Lou Christie really knew how to rock a pair of jeans.

R102, I don't think anything has changed. There's still songs like that. "Misery Business" by Paramore is exactly that type of song. Her boyfriend leaves her for another girl, then she takes him back. To the other girl she says:

Second chances they don't ever matter People never change Once a whore, you're nothing more I'm sorry, that'll never change

So if people never change, why did she take the boyfriend back?

you're right r105, I guess I was just trying to be hopeful. Maybe I'll just go back to tuning out the lyrics, it works pretty well for me.

It would be nice if Puritan Americans would try to remember that however inappropriate and criminal adults in their country carousing with 16 year olds may be, it is not pedophilia. Sixteen year olds are not little children, you idiots.

"Oh Carol" by Smokie ... makes my skin crawl whenever I hear it..

"Brandy" by Looking Glass

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Wedding Bell Blues

Go Away Little Girl

The only reason this song saw the light of day is because the lead singer is singing about a girl. If he were singing about a boy, there's no chance in Hell they'd release it:

Remember the song "Personality?" Not the one from the 50s, but a decade earlier and I think by Johnny Mercer. All the big banders sang it. "A girl could learn to spell / And take dictation well / And never sit on the bosses' settee / Unless she has a certain... personality."

Has anyone pointed out to OP yet that "Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife" wasn't a Jack Jones song. It was a hit for both Glen Campbell and Wayne Newton.

Charlene, I’ve Never Been to Me.

I love "under my thumb" it's like an antidote to all those sugary boy band songs of recent times, that patronize girls and exploit their fantasies. It's very cool musically, sexist or not.

Raped and Freezin’

How does rap and hip hop get away with its in your face, much more than these old songs, misogyny???

Most everything from the 50s.

That song by Vicki Carr- she's waiting by the phone for "him" to call. Get a life, girl.

"Oh DEAR GOD...IT MUST BE HIM...or I SHALL DIE" "but it's NOT him...and THEN I DIE"

He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)

R117, you ask, How does rap and hip hop get away with its in your face, much more than these old songs, misogyny???

Because, as we've been told for DECADES, those guys are just "keepin it real" - they're just talkin about what they know from the projects and the 'hood they were raised.

You can't criticize rap or hip hop (well you can) because you probably aren't a minority - you're just a white guy too old to understand. Besides, once you start criticizing rap or hip hop, you're setting yourself up as being judgmental, out-of-touch and possibly racist.

So shut your trap,

So racism is condemning black men for violence against black Women. Got it.

122 hits and nobody has mentioned the national anthem of sexism - "Try a Little Tenderness."

The link at R118 doesn't work in Canada... try this instead:

I remember being a kid into metal and being really put off by "Seventeen" by Winger. "She's only seventeen/ Daddy said she's too young/ but she's old enough for me." That would never fly in 2019 but it was a huge uncontroversial hit in the 80s. Kip Winger was 27 at the time he wrote it.

Yankee Doodle - sexist and quite possibly homophobic

Yankee Doodle went to town A-riding on a pony He stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni

Yankee Doodle, keep it up Yankee Doodle dandy Mind the music and the step and with the girls be handy!

Yankee Doodle is 🤢

What about the Chevy Van song by Sammy John? Some say it defined the Seventies, post pill and pre-AIDS. It seems like a consensual encounter.

What was considered innocent male adolescent horniness back in the 60s, now would get classified as assault.

(The correct name of the band is the O'Kaysions.)

The ultimate, creepy stalking hymn.

Since irony is dead this song would be problematic, too.

I don’t understand the issue with some of these songs. Why wouldn’t a woman want to keep herself attractive for her husband? You all sound like amazons. Probably lesbian.

Hot Child In The City is about pedophilia.

It's not racist to call out hip hops' homophobia and sexism...getting sick of people trying to justify it. If you can overlook it in that you can overlook it in everything else. Or would you prefer one code of conduct for one race and another for the others?

Black men mostly sing about money and women's booty. I'd say it's as sexist as any 50s music, maybe more. Women are reduced to pieces of meat and called hos. Nice.

Delilah by Tom Jones. You cheated on me so I killed you

I thought that Under My Thumb was about the woman being totally dickmatized once Jagger starting manually stimulating her to orgasm during sex. Most women don't climax just from penetration. Once he started giving her orgasms, she was happy to be totally submissive. I always thought this song was more of a dirty joke than a misogynistic put-down.