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Selfish Ideals
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A freedom for which there is no need to fight
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Do as they want and they'll tell you it's right.
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They can forcefeed the lies but you don't have to swallow
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Only you possess the right to not follow
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Selfish ideals let you always win
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I support - I'm the "subject", I object - I'm a "victim"
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So you've found an outlet that makes you feel strong?
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This form of sexism has gone on too long.
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Dancing before you - no mind and no name
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Posed on the pages - playing your game
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You say you support this self liberation
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As you're gaining your strength out of pure degradation.
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Everyday men, women and children are victimized as a direct result of the images forcefed into our heads from birth.
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Images that depict people as sexual objects and not as individual beings with our own hearts and minds.
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Our culture has separated sex and love and put power in love's place.
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And it is this patriarchal sexuality, an inherantly oppressive sexuality, that is based on power rather than love.
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True sexual liberation is about realizing our natural sexual desrires,
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ot using objectification as a means to an end.
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It is a mistake to see pornography as a valid and accurate representation of our natural sexual desires,
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for playing into sexual stereotypes and acting out roles of dominance and submission that the system has forced upon us is not defining our own sexuality.
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What we have been doing for centuries cannot be changed in one night.
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But we must begin to work for true sexual liberation, both at the political and individual levels.
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And we must begin now.
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