Originally Posted by AndrewFox
Are we assuming that domestic abuse is still a controversial enough matter to get a singer blacklisted?

This reminds me of a little joke Tom Lehrer told. "The folk song of protest. You have to admire people who sing these songs, because it takes a certain amount of courage to stand up in a coffeehouse or a college auditorium and come out in favor of the things that everyone else in the audience is against, like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on...."


have to smirk at that, because that was my very response after hearing this song. What does the writer think? Somebody is going to argue with "don't beat women, don't abuse them mentally or physically?"

C'mon, folks... you want to show courage, come up with an angle for a song that takes sides with the wife-beater's point of view and convinces the audience he was justified!

As the old maxim goes: dog bites man, no news... man bites dog, now THAT'S news!

Last edited by RobertK; 04/07/07 12:44 PM.