Sexist Appeal Lyrics - Aus Rotten

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