Master CraftsMon - Aired Monday, March 13, 2006 at about 11pm CST - Segment 3
Master CraftsMon - Aired Monday, March 13, 2006 at about 11pm CST - Segment 3
<When the Trash Meets the Cash by Ronny Cox> Pull it off the shelf
As I have told you, I do cleanup detail here at KEOS. Before the radio station can air a CD, we have to make sure it is FCC compliant. I review all the CD's that sit on the shelf for over a year. Or rather I review the ones that make sense to me. Rap, punk and dark metal are just too hard for me to comprehend.
About a year ago, I reviewed this album by Ronny Cox. It had sat on the shelf for God knows how long. I remembered this album even though it has been a year, because so few of the albums I review are any good.
This song has to do with the basic argument against Capitalism. I know, it doesn't look that way, but you have to look at it from the point of these women selling themselves to the highest bidder, because they have convinced themselves that they have no other choices. Note that we are not talking prostitution exactly. The implication is that the women in the song are becoming mistresses or maybe wives of the moneyed interests in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
The thinking on the Left goes that in a compassionate and just society, women should not have to sell themselves in such a meat market. The thinking on the Right is that women should not do this, period. The problem here is that transactions like the ones in the song have been happening forever. A woman decides she wants the good life without working for it and she finds a man with money who is willing to support her. I have heard stories that there are professional mistresses. Again, I'm not talking prostitutes per se, but women who become the mistresses of one individual wealthy man. When the guy tires of her, she moves on to another wealthy man. Remember WKRP in Cincinnati. The character, Jennifer, was like that.
What is even weirder are the people on the extreme Left who applaud this type of behavior and label women like this as sex workers. Or there are Libertarians (the extreme Right) who say that since there is no coercion there can be no real crime.
Yet... the whole idea undermines society. It promotes the idea that women are not good for anything except sex. Something to think about.
<When the Trash Meets the Cash by Ronny Cox> Pull it off the shelf
As I have told you, I do cleanup detail here at KEOS. Before the radio station can air a CD, we have to make sure it is FCC compliant. I review all the CD's that sit on the shelf for over a year. Or rather I review the ones that make sense to me. Rap, punk and dark metal are just too hard for me to comprehend.
About a year ago, I reviewed this album by Ronny Cox. It had sat on the shelf for God knows how long. I remembered this album even though it has been a year, because so few of the albums I review are any good.
This song has to do with the basic argument against Capitalism. I know, it doesn't look that way, but you have to look at it from the point of these women selling themselves to the highest bidder, because they have convinced themselves that they have no other choices. Note that we are not talking prostitution exactly. The implication is that the women in the song are becoming mistresses or maybe wives of the moneyed interests in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
The thinking on the Left goes that in a compassionate and just society, women should not have to sell themselves in such a meat market. The thinking on the Right is that women should not do this, period. The problem here is that transactions like the ones in the song have been happening forever. A woman decides she wants the good life without working for it and she finds a man with money who is willing to support her. I have heard stories that there are professional mistresses. Again, I'm not talking prostitutes per se, but women who become the mistresses of one individual wealthy man. When the guy tires of her, she moves on to another wealthy man. Remember WKRP in Cincinnati. The character, Jennifer, was like that.
What is even weirder are the people on the extreme Left who applaud this type of behavior and label women like this as sex workers. Or there are Libertarians (the extreme Right) who say that since there is no coercion there can be no real crime.
Yet... the whole idea undermines society. It promotes the idea that women are not good for anything except sex. Something to think about.
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