...and not just through music. Art imitates life AND life imitates art. We keep living and reliving it because it is alive (in our minds). Western culture views women as closer to nature, and this is suspect. Women are "naturally" emotional and intuitive; men are more rational. The darker one's skin color, the closer to nature one is assumed to be. This has been putting human over nature, male over female, white over color...images that have allowed the exploitation of nature (and of women and people of color) forever. Science teaches folks not to trust nature (women and people of color) because rationality is more important. It is rational to view women as the people responsible for having children even though we also know it takes an egg and a sperm to make a baby. We have internalized "rationalism' and exploited nature and as a result things are the way they are.