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You and me we're cut from the same cloth
It seems to some we famously get along
But you and me are strangers to each other
'Cause you and me: competitive to the bone
Such tragedy to trample on each other with how much we've endured
With the state this land is in
You and me feel joined by only gender
We are not all for one and one for all
Sister blister we fight to please the brothers
We think their acceptance is how we win
They're happy we're climbing over each other
To beg the club of boys to let us in
You and me estranged from the mother
You and me have felt impotent in our skin
You and me have taken it out on each other
You and me disloyal to the feminine
Such a pity to disavow each other with how far we've come
With how strong we've been
You and me are on this pendulum together
You and me with scarcity still fueling
Sister blister we fight to please the brothers
We think their acceptance is how we win
They're happy we're climbing over each other
To beg the club of boys to let us in
We may not have priorities same
We may not even like each other
We may not be hugely anti-men
But such a cost to dishonor a sister
You and me have made it harder for the other
We forget how hard separatism has been
You and me we can help change their minds together
You and me in alignment until the end
Sister blister we fight to please the brothers
We think their acceptance is how we win
They're happy we're climbing over each other
To beg the club of boys to let us in
It seems to some we famously get along
But you and me are strangers to each other
'Cause you and me: competitive to the bone
Such tragedy to trample on each other with how much we've endured
With the state this land is in
You and me feel joined by only gender
We are not all for one and one for all
Sister blister we fight to please the brothers
We think their acceptance is how we win
They're happy we're climbing over each other
To beg the club of boys to let us in
You and me estranged from the mother
You and me have felt impotent in our skin
You and me have taken it out on each other
You and me disloyal to the feminine
Such a pity to disavow each other with how far we've come
With how strong we've been
You and me are on this pendulum together
You and me with scarcity still fueling
Sister blister we fight to please the brothers
We think their acceptance is how we win
They're happy we're climbing over each other
To beg the club of boys to let us in
We may not have priorities same
We may not even like each other
We may not be hugely anti-men
But such a cost to dishonor a sister
You and me have made it harder for the other
We forget how hard separatism has been
You and me we can help change their minds together
You and me in alignment until the end
Sister blister we fight to please the brothers
We think their acceptance is how we win
They're happy we're climbing over each other
To beg the club of boys to let us in
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She has gone down this road before (see "Mary Jane" and "Break," for example).
Al is =very= aware of her internal conflicts and uses her writing to try to work through them so that she is less (unconsciously) "split in two" and more (consciously) "integrated."
Authors like Pia Mellody and Claudia Black, as well as Marsha Linehan and Glenn Schiraldi (the latter two at a more technical level), have written a lot about this topic.
The entire song is how women can attack each other over things like men, jobs, looks, etc; it divides us when we need to be more united.
It also says to me that we fight to be accepted by men and to get into their "boys' clubs" instead of wanting to do things on our own terms.
i just don't see how women are sabotaging each other, or i don't see this rivalry between women. I do think that women try to become more equal to men by reaching for those top jobs for example but i don't see how women are fighting with each other over men.
we are not all for one and one for all" clearly refers to the realisation that there were differences in the needs and experiences of individual groups within the movement (often down to class and race differences) which lead to divisions within feminism. Gender alone was not enough to join them.
"we forget how hard separatism has been"- another indication that this song is about the feminist movement, there is disagreement amongst feminists about whether or not seperatism (emphasizing male/female differences) helps or hinders their cause. I think this is an excellent song by alanis and should've made the U.R.S final cut. It stands alone from much of her catalogue in that it doesn't focus primarily on a specifically personal experience (although i am not saying this is a particulkarly good or bad thing). What do people think about my comments?
''such a pity to disavow each other with how far we've come
with how strong we've been''
thats explaining how much pain women have been through in the past just trying to get the right to speak, and after how far we have come, we still trample on eachother to win the aproval of some guy who will more than likely just give us hell anyway!
And no...I'm not a lesbian lol