Shaker Aram emailed me with the following: "I've been particularly taken recently with the Peter Gabriel/Youssou N'Dour song Shaking The Tree (lyrics here). What's strange to me is that I can't immediately think of any other songs by male artists that are so explicitly feminist. … I'm sure that if you put the question to your readers, they'll immediately come up with a dozen that will have me slapping my head, but for the moment, I'm stumped."
I thought this was an interesting question, particularly in light of how often we talk about how important allies are generally, and, more specifically, how many times Shaker fans of Joss Whedon have mentioned admiringly how well he writes female characters (something about which you can see him talking here).
So…whatcha got?
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