SCENE: Gender In Family - Song

Title: My Position
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Five Points:

Double Standard
• Double Standard for Women at Home to be successful at home while maintaining enough (financial security) to be competitive in the market place
• Double Standard for Women at work to be successful at work and maintain a healthy and safe home environment
• Double Standard for Men to be both ally’s to women (in the struggle against sexism and be good husbands) yet maintain relations with “the guys”
• Double Standard for men to be ally’s to women at work and still be “assertive” at work while not competing with women in such a way as to name them a “bitch” when they are also assertive
• Conflicting identities does not mean that switching identities solves problems

D & M: Ugh, another gray hair.

D &M: What will..

M: the wife think?

D: the office think?

D & M: It would be okay if I were a

(At same time)
M: Woman…
D:Man…

M: I could just dye it.

D: I could just leave it.

M: I would have time to if I were just watching the kids all day.

D: I just don’t have time. Maybe I could go to the salon? But, who will watch the kids? Huhhhhh…. I wish harry would be more… helpful


D:
Gotta do the laundry when
I get home tonight
Article due at 9 AM
Have dinner by candelight
Im supposed to cook this time
When will I write this piece
I’ll be up late again
Till 4 AM at least
Later if baby’s up all night
Crying in her crib for me
Daddy tried to pacify
But she still can not sleep
I need to be there for her
And the office needs me too
Stuck between both places
What’s a mom to do?
Harry’s not around enough
Though I wish he were
Says he’s with the guys
But I don't trust his word
says dinner don't taste so good
not the same recipe
now that I got a job
work’s got the best of me


You don't know what its like
To be a woman in my position
Looking Like This, Taming Wild Hair
Cooking all this, with no time to spare
From cleaning all your shit to Child care
Not sposed to be a bitch when nothing fair

You don't know whats its like
to be a woman in my position
I should cut this all off and have no hair
Not shave my legs and ignore the stares
Tell this pig kids are yours to bear
If IM a bitch its cause nothings fair

Damn! I should say somethin

M: I treat my wife the best
Always tell her I love you
Always let her have her rest
Fix anything she wants me to
Remember anniversaries
Pick up the kids from school
Go buy the groceries
I’ll cook dinner too
But when I’m at work
The guys always hassle me
Say that I’m absurd
And my wife’s controlling me
But I don’t think that’s true
I just enjoy the work
Some men don't understand
This is what a wife is worth
I try to comprehend
Women’s complexity
Does that really make me
a woman wannabe

You don't know what its like
To be a man in my position
Looking Like This, combing my hair
Fixing all this with no time to spare
Being in this world where my kind is rare
Put in my work so something’s fair

You don't know whats its like
to be a man in my position
women pass by, I’m supposed to stare
expected to have many affairs
Being in this world where my kind is rare
Get called a bitch, how’s this fair


YEAH! How the hell is this fair?


D:
Now I can say fuck the kids
Wife will take care of them
Have that great vegas trip
Meet some twins and marry them
I can be promiscuous
And stay out late at night
No man to question me
Then I’ll start a bar fight


M: Now I can say fuck the guys
My hair is gorgeous now
Women and men pass by
And all they say is WOW
I’ll put my make up on
and wear my tall high heels
Use my vibrator
OH my god! Are these real?


D & M:
You don’t know what it’s like to be a (wo)man
In my position
Looking Like This, Taming Wild Hair
Doing all this, with no time to spare
From takin all your shit to Child care
Not sposed to be a bitch but nothin’s fair

You don't know whats its like
to be a (wo)man in my position
all their cheap shots and all of their
bullshit to their angry glares
what? Am i supposed to care
I’m gonna be a bitch, cause nothin’s fair