Saturated with sex stereotypes gender roles reinforce inferiority   Exploiting anatomy, exploiting sexuality, preying on insecurities   Force fed proper mannerisms, treated different from the date of birth   Raised as men's servants who should never question their own sense of worth      Conditioning children with anorexic plastic of 'perfect' feminine traits   Learning how to hide any blemishes, meeting standards men create   Painting flesh like painting a picture that subliminally suggests   To equally conditioned men that women are just there for sex   Striving to achieve the super model image the media project   Spending countless hours enhancing a look instead of self respect   Eating disorders insuring beauty and endangering health   When living life behind a mask you cant expect to know yourself   When women are taught one way to act and men are taught another   The ability to accept and tolerate is absent from each other   Without understanding or communication the result too often is   Bigotry by ignorance unintended prejudice   Any man that would treat a woman as property you keep   is nothing but an ignorant bigot that can only see skin deep   having a relationship of inequality, treating a woman as a possession   taking advantage of devotion using emotions as a weapon   violating another's personal rights as if they never mattered   every day that begins with this conditioning ends with another woman battered   taught how to act, taught how to think   taught how to feel, told by another gender   sexist appeal dehumanizes women molding an image   making the body more important then what the person is   taught to pretend, taught to please   taught to conceal, told that you must surrender   sexist appeal demoralizes men, distoriting their view   making the body the most important part to pursue   initiating a chase that relies on deception   hoping persistant efforts will overcome rejection   conditioned by images lusting for sex   haunting men's thoughts of who they'll bed next   taught how to act, taught how to think   taught how to feel, told by another gender   sexist appeal dehumanizes women by abusing sexuality   another person's body shouldn't be viewed as a trophy   taught to pretend, taught to please   taught how to feel, told that you must surrender   sexist appeal demoralizes men, encouraging rape   another persons body is never for anyone else to take   treating a fellow person without any respect   condemning behavior as if the woman asked for it   society's distorted our judgement with what they suggest   why take no for an answer when no really means yes      [Woman's part]   we've heard it all so many times before   stop treating women like some trashy cheap whore   or a virgin that must lead to a sterile life   a surrogate mother under the disguise of the word wife   they make the rules but yet they don't play fair   forcing sexual stereotypes that make us all aware   of every single one of our failures in the eyes of society   telling me that I'm not quite what I'm supposed to be   I'm not married with two children or single with a career   I'm not drowning in some mortagage or living in financial fear   I don't cower as I walk home all alone throughout the streets   I refuse to be treated like a piece of trumped up meat   I turn away from the billboards that extol the latest fad   Of looking like a junkie in the Calvin Klein ad   Now its time to get beyond all of our rage and pointing fingers   To see through the lies no matter how much it lingers      [Man's part]   As long as I can remember ive been a victim of mans lies   And in turn ive victimized women through ignorant naive eyes   When overlooking personality in the person im seeing   Then my attraction becomes the exploitation of another human being   In my heart I know equality but conditioning affects my brain   So without complete understanding oppression will remain   For as enlightened as I may consider myself I still have much to learn   And since actually achieving equality still is a concern   I must open my mind to the opinions that women would suggest   Because theyre the ones who understand sexual oppression best   As a man im part of the problem that's something I must accept   Unless through education I can evolve towards a mutual respect   Everyone of us should realize how our struggle now relates   And how as equals we can destroy what society dictates   We can hopefully find a way to respectfully co-exist   And then eliminate the biggest prejudice that exists      [Both together]   because this is not about man vs. woman or woman vs. man   but human to human as we struggle to understand   were living life suspiciously believing there's no one we can trust   theyre dividing the population the system is destroying us   profiting from this division and the line of thinking that's been bought   if equality is ever to exist we have to unlearn what weve been taught   bigotry by ignorance unintended prejudice