This song is particularly interesting in light of the sheer numbers of rock and metal songs that deal with women, especially the songs dealing with sex with women. Most of them are written by men who take it as a given (rightly or wrongly) that these women will want to have sex with them, or were perfectly happy to make men of them if it's a song about the past, or whatever. Then you have a song like this that's pointing out, look, this prostitute, who has lots of sex with lots of men (including, presumably, people like the band members) has feelings too and is actually ill-used by the men in her life--the song goes out of its way to point out in that one section ("Beat her, mistreat her" thru to "She always does what you want") that most of the men who visit Charlotte don't consider her thoughts or feelings at all, but are just using her for whatever it is THEY want. It seems like an admonishment that actually, that kind of attitude toward women, which a sizable chunk of rock was promoting or does promote, is really, really fucked up!
This song is particularly interesting in light of the sheer numbers of rock and metal songs that deal with women, especially the songs dealing with sex with women. Most of them are written by men who take it as a given (rightly or wrongly) that these women will want to have sex with them, or were perfectly happy to make men of them if it's a song about the past, or whatever. Then you have a song like this that's pointing out, look, this prostitute, who has lots of sex with lots of men (including, presumably, people like the band members) has feelings too and is actually ill-used by the men in her life--the song goes out of its way to point out in that one section ("Beat her, mistreat her" thru to "She always does what you want") that most of the men who visit Charlotte don't consider her thoughts or feelings at all, but are just using her for whatever it is THEY want. It seems like an admonishment that actually, that kind of attitude toward women, which a sizable chunk of rock was promoting or does promote, is really, really fucked up!