Come all fair-minded people of goodwill; listen closely as I sing,
For the blight of prejudice and prudery is a terrible thing.
It banishes fairness with the speed of a flame,
And embroils millions of us in the Misogyny Game.
My name’s unimportant, but not what I've seen.
My home is in America, where I have fought to restrain.
The censorious, jealous and the malicious,
Who day after day play the Misogyny Game.
It's been sixty years since I stood up to say
Blaming and shaming women must stop right way,
For I knew the lovely, loving young girls were not to blame
For the hurtful and hateful nonsense of the Misogyny Game.
This culture of ours has too long been unfair.
Prudery and prejudice abound everywhere.
Parents, teachers, and leaders bear much of the blame.
For failing to denounce and renounce the Misogyny Game.
They told us how nudity and sex were causes for shame,
Thereby infecting us with poisonous excuses for blame.
They cursed women’s bodies and gave desire a bad name.
Trying to make us all players in the Misogyny Game.
And now I am aged, my body's weary and infirm.
I’ll try once again – women, beauty, and sex to affirm
I regret not defeating those who blame and who shame.
For they keep finding victims for the Misogyny Game.
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