Sometimes, carrying that invisible backpack can get really tiresome–i guess it can feel a little heavy–and white dudes just need to vent/ let it all hang out in their art.
Colin Meloy does frat boys everywhere a favor with this line in the Decemberists’ song, “We Both Go Down Together”:
I laid you down in the grass of a clearing/You wept but your soul was willing.
Perfect. that sounds WAY better than, “you didn’t say no, bitch!”
You could also use it in-the-moment. “honey, you are weeping now…but c’mon. just put the tip in. i KNOW your soul is willing.”
Bonus–the rest of the song is easy for frat dudes to relate to. The dude brah in the song “comes from wealth and beauty, untouched by work or duty,” but he totally wants to bone the “help,” who is a “dirty daughter from the labor camps.” It’s that whole power-dynamic thing that dudes get tired of carrying around in their backpack.
Tags: feminism, frat boys, the decemberists
