The greatest song about accepting your struggles as key to making you who you are, while also refusing to pass that generational trauma on to your own children, is Johnny Cash / Shel Silverstein’s “A Boy Named Sue”

*Bonus points for implicitly understanding the trauma of being misgendered.

    • Brad Ganley@toad.work
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, “Father of a Boy Named Sue” Is really like “What if, instead of writing a good song, I make myself look like a hugely toxic, ignorant piece of shit by writing this song instead”

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        1 year ago

        I’m not disagreeing with you, though that certainly sounds like your perspective was newly informed by this additional trivia.

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          1 year ago

          I don’t understand what you mean. This isn’t new trivia. It’s just a hugely problematic, incestuous, transphobic song

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      1 year ago

      Holy fuck

      … It doesn’t even make sense. If Sue ends up choosing to live life as a flamboyant, gay drag queen then why is Sue pissed off at the dad in the first place? 🤔