Lyrically Speaking: Is Bob Dylan's 'Just Like a Woman' Sexist?

Far Out Magazine ^ | 3RD JUN 2023

[Harpotoo]

Depends on the woman, no?

[frank ballenger]

Lifelong Dylan scholar and expert.

Feminist manhating critics can flush themselves down where they belong. To put it subtly.

[A strike]

No one cares about nasal monotone Dylan, ‘cept his lyrics.

[fhayek]

So what if it is? Are we going to somehow draw limits to what is acceptable speech, simply because someone might take offense to it. Woman do have their own proclivities. One man's observation may resonate, or maybe it is completely off the mark. But the observation may just, in one way or another, expand the conversation on the topic. Good lord, the song is sixty years old.

[peggybac]

EVERYTHING is sexist or racist these days.

[nickcarraway]

Except that things that really are.

A man beating up on a woman at a woman's sporting event is sexist.

[peggybac]

Bingo.

[milagro]

AMEN!!!

[Chad C. Mulligan]

That this is even a talking point indicates how far the culture has been corrupted.

[fightin kentuckian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNn72qnp6kI

[map]

This song is worth a listen, especially the beautifully played full chorus on the harmonica at the end

https://youtu.be/dRLXZVojdhQ

[Ge0ffrey]

No, but Far Out magazine is Woke Establishment. Damn hippies.

[ought-six]

A generational poet laureate.

[SamAdams76]

Bob Dylan is a national treasure.

[CaptainK]

Back it the day, it was an automatic station turner when I was listening to the radio.

[chajin]

There’s a reason he deservedly received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

OTOH, if there were a Nobel Prize for Music (which there isn’t), Dylan would be at best around the middle of the list of possible recipients. It is just as well: the avant garde post-classical composers (e.g. Marcus Norris) would expect to be the perpetual winners of the Music Prize when no one ever actually listens to their works, while the middlebrow classical composers (e.g. John Williams) and the various versions of pop composers (the whole chart from Bert Bacharach to Ed Sheeran to Bad Bunny) would decry anyone not from their ranks.

[sit-rep]

after all the shit heard in Rap songs, I dont gaf if some sorry ass b*tch has a problem with white songs.

yes a vulgar post! in par with the vulgar mentality of this author...

[nickcarraway]

Even Bob Dylan didn’t think he deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature.

[nickcarraway]

The author, Tom Taylor, is a man.