What point do you think Lennon is trying to make in this song?

Question

I know what I think but would be interested in your views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P91_H690z4

Answer 1

i am not sure i want to answer this question i have conflicting emotions it was never a great track but for you to find it and post it must mean you have the same feelngs towards it as i do i hope

Answer 2

I believe that John Lennon loved his wife, perhaps more than himself. He was a model of how to treat a woman. He gave insight in to his own views of how a woman should be treated.

I may be biased; because I love Lennon so much as an artist, and miss his genius. I wish that I had a man as devoted to me and showed it, like John did with Yoko.

That was a Love Story. Nana

Answer 3

This was written at the beginning of the the feminist movement when women were trying to portray themselves as victims of everything associated with men. In this case Lennon was paralleling all women with the west's quintessential Victims, Negroes.

It was nice hearing live music again without the overdone lighting and audio gadgetry, it was just a handful of musicians and their respective instruments back then,

Answer 4

Wow, John Lennon was all about peace on earth
Love not War and etc. then why would he bring a racial slur into a song but try to send out a message about how great women
Anyways, I was reading the lyrics
and he says
"We make her paint her face and dance
If she won’t be slave, we say that she don’t love us
If she’s real, we say she’s trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us"

ok what his basically doing is putting down African Americans in a way " If she won’t be slave, we say that she don’t love" but try to as well bring up the view on women

I'm in shock just changed my whole out look on John lennon

Answer 5

A lot of the world still thought that women were 2nd class citizens as were N........ to a lot of the world - actually it's men as you can see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWe0pb55q8w

Answer 6

The song lambasts the perceived traditional role of woman's subservience to man across all cultures. It was banned from radio airplay because of the word '******' although many prominent blacks, including black comedian Dick Gregory, spoke out in defense of the song. Interestingly, many people tended to take "Woman is the ******" as a statement on face-value, and agree with it. So an element of black humor was also involved.

Answer 7

point? that men make women do the unsavory things. when he wrote this, there were very few women politicians, police and fire fighters. why? these are glory seeking, power-laden jobs, kept only for the men for a long time.
certainly the song is dated, but then, so is all classical music.:)

Answer 8

I like this song very much and always have ,,,I take it to mean an analagy between modern woman and the black slaves of the 18th and 19th C

Answer 9

Just like the Grateful Dead sang "women are smarter"

You gotta be in order to bust your butt while making other happy and being strong yourself, and then go unappreciated....

Have a Good One Mr.Melnabone.

Answer 10

What it is saying is that John says that although we recognize all the racism toward blacks, we encounter prejudice against women so often and ignore it.
Therefore, women are the "Nig*ers" of the world, people who we are biased against.