Now stand up
If you can’t change
How you’ve been born
And if you face
The ugly scorn
Of sexism
That deadly storm
Now stand up

Now stand up

Somewhere in America a woman is battered, usually by her intimate partner, every 15 seconds.

15% of domestic violence victims, in America, are male. And men lack support for domestic violence and face being stigmatized even worse than females for being beaten by their partner.



Now men,
Stand up if you
Feel as if you
Could be beaten
In broad daylight
In public
By a female
And nothing
Would happen
Even though you
Know that if it
Was the other
Way around
That you would be
Laying on the ground
In handcuffs
For the awful
Thing that you just did


Now women,
Stand up if you
Feel afraid
Every time
That you’re alone
With your man
And his temper
Flares off
Because you know
What could happen
If it ever just gets bad enough
And how he’ll
Get away
With what he
Just did to you
Because you’re
Not ever supposed
To leave your man


Now stand up
If you can’t change
How you’ve been born
And if you face
The ugly scorn
Of sexism
That deadly storm
Now stand up
Now stand up
If you hate
How unfair
Things can be
Just because
Of the way
People wrongly
Perceive

Now stand up


Women are acquitted of spousal murder at a rate 9 times that of men

Across the globe women do two thirds of the world's work, receive one tenth of the world's income and own less than 1% of the world's property


Work, work, work
Do that work
Feel that burn
Raise those kids
Where in the hell would this world be?
Where in the hell would any of us be?
It takes two
It takes cooperation
But your paycheck is less out of discrimination
It has nothing to do with what you do
It has nothing to do with what they do
It has everything to do with what we do
And how we allow this to go through

Justice, justice
The way things work
We’ll get justice
Isn’t that right
But no, not quite; we all know that
But no, not quite; we won’t stop that
Murder is murder
No matter your gender
But if you’re a male you’re the worse offender
It has everything to do with portrayal
Gender equality shows its betrayal
The odds are so much higher for you going to jail
When we’re treated unfairly, the whole system fails

Now stand up
If you can’t change
How you’ve been born
And if you face
The ugly scorn
Of sexism
That deadly storm
Now stand up
Now stand up
If you hate
How unfair
Things can be
Just because
Of the way
People wrongly
Perceive


Women receive custody of 92% of the children of divorce and illegitimacy, and men only 4%.

Women working full-time, year-round earn only about 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, virtually the same amount women earned in 2004. In 2005, the median annual earnings of women ages 15 and older were $31,858, compared to $41,386 for their male counterparts.


Stigmas shackle your freedom
Rampant is discrimination
The seeds planted in history
We water them currently
The villains are now all of us
The villains are a part of us
But deep inside are those heroes
The heroes whom which know
That all of us are just human
And we all must rid the rumen
For the cud that comes up to chew
That is coming out of you
Before you act
Before you scream
Before you behave
Ignorantly
Use those filters
Search for truth
Do that math
Try to keep cool
‘Cause it’s always up to us to make a difference
It’s always up to us to shed ignorance
And if you refuse to see that we are one
Then you are a part of what the culture has numbed

Now stand up
If you can’t change
How you’ve been born
And if you face
The ugly scorn
Of sexism
That deadly storm
Now stand up
Now stand up
If you hate
How unfair
Things can be
Just because
Of the way
People wrongly
Perceive