Grammy Whammy

I tuned into the Grammies for exactly 1.5 minutes last night, just enough to hear the execrable John Mayer sing his song, "Daughters."

Fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too


Let me paraphrase:

Parents, be super good to your little girls so that they can grow up to really give their all in relationships. This helps me because someday, I'll be screwing those daughters of yours, and I'll get more out of it if they're really invested in "us." Get it? Thanks.

So why does this song bother me so much? First of all, it's completely patronizing. Second, any man who has that much concern for women in general - that is, not a particular woman, but the whole lovely lot of us - is a sentimentalizing fool who will always end up screwing girl X over for girl Y for some reason like "the heart wants what it wants."