Misandry in the Least Likely of Places By Carey Roberts
Dial up your local country-and-western radio station and you may soon find your fingers tapping out the beat of Carrie Underwood’s latest hit, ''Before He Cheats.'' Underwood suspects that her boyfriend is probably cheating on her (in matters of infidelity, I guess “probably” is proof enough).
This how she extracts her revenge:
“I dug my key into the side
of his pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive,
Carved my name into his leather seats;
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights;
slashed a hole in all four tires...”
Trashing your boyfriend’s car has little to do with sugar and spice and everything nice. But it’s the title, "Before He Cheats," that turns this song into a bitter gender tirade. Just imagine a male star reaching platinum for crooning, ''Before She Aborts.''
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