So, Mariah pointed out a post yesterday on a blog that she regularly reads, called
Drink Your Juice. I like this blog and I'm going to start checking in. The post said:
I wish there was some kind of
sociological or psychological study on straight women who relate to lyrics about dicks on a deep level.
Like, there’s no accepted reason-at-hand that I should feel particlularly empowered by Mickey Avalon’s “My Dick” — but that’s not stopping me from bouncing in my desk chair and nodding my head like he fucking read my diary and wrote a song about it.
Or lyrics like, “Even though I went to college and dropped out of school quick, I always had a PhD: a pretty huge dick” — clearly not aimed at my demographic. Clearly not thinking an anglo chick from the greater Fairfield area when that was written.
But here we are, ya know?
We can’t choose what speaks to us.
Well, let me first say, my husband got me into the song "My Dick," and I like LOVE the song. It's good. And it does speak to me and it has spoken to most of my friends as well.
The post got me thinking. I think that there is a great reason why I feel empowered by the song "My Dick" and others like it. It's because I have one. A dick.
Maybe it doesn't look like Mickey Avalon's, or like anything really. But I have the essence (gross! essence of dick?), and that's all I need. It's a mindset, but its a dick nonetheless. Just like the anatomical part is to a man, my dick is something inherently there, it's something that I carry with me all the time because it is a part of me.
My dick is what I use to get shit done. It's part of the armor I wear that let's me assert myself throughout the day. It's the tool I use to take care of business. Women who are drawn to these lyrics are women who are ready to be able to conquer as much as men, be taken as seriously as men, women who sometimes just want to
stick it to somebody. That is, almost all women.
Just as the words "bitch" and "slut" have totally changed from being words that were just applied to women into unisex words, I think "dick" is going to go the same way. For instance, maybe before you would have called John Mayer a bastard, but now it's perfectly acceptable to say "John Mayer, you little bitch!" Or before you might have called him a male slut, but now you can simply say "John Mayer, you total ducking slut. Tell me you did NOT
sleep with Taylor Swift."
So I think that dick will go that way as well ("Gee, Taylor, you actually have a sort-of-big dick to have written that song about John Mayer."), as women realize that a dick is just a tool you need to make it though the world. A tool we all need to be productive. It's like a hammer, of course, which is why you can use both instruments to bang and nail. While we are on the subject of symbolic genitalia, let me say also that I think that men would do well to realize that they need vaginas, too. Something that allows them to accept and take in. But that conversation is for another day.
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