Helen Reddy - 'I Am Woman' 1973

[Tonice414]

Helen Reddy was making her point about woman's right! Remember this was the beginning of womens right! This song was great and meaningful in the early 70's.

[ChigirisWrath]

Seriously? You people are disgusting. In her time Helen Reddy was trying to make a point about womens rights and such so for those of you dissing her, what right do you have? Dude, everyone knows about the biological body systems of women, we don't need to comment on that... Grow up.

[tgillspy]

feminism is rotten to the core.....elentari1959 smarten up

[sushijones]

What about peeing standing up?

[elentari1959]

@sushijones Ummm.....I can pee standing up. Can't you?

[leereyno]

Stating that women can do anything a man can do demonstrates a profound grasp of the blatantly obvious. Since when were the abilities of women in doubt? Women who talk about how they can do anything a man can do either don't really believe that, or they are trying to brow-beat someone by pretending to be a victim.

[pika23]

I shudder and weep and wretch when I picture women years ago, forced into institutions because the wigged out during their pms and their husbands had em locked up. Having retarded babies and the MEN doctors telling husbands to stick it in an institution and tell the wife it died...yes this has happened to folks I know. Women do know too much to pretend...we are not fragile fluff brains!

[pika23]

Right...women CAN do ALMOST anything...'cept for sperms and prostates. We can even grow a penis. Look at Chaz Bono and pregnant man.

[Albertarecords7ny]

Yesss...this song was wise, but it was wisdom born of pain; yes it paid the price, but look how much it gained...if it had to, it still could do anything...and it's still strong...it's still INVINCIBLE...because it's woman!

[elentari1959]

@tgillspy

Shut up, fool !

[Squirrlyburt]

"If I have to, I can do anything......."! Really, can you have prostate problems? Can you produce sperm?

[SelangorNight]

For some reason this song gives me an overwhelming urge to vomit

[bbbartolo]

for a while someone (Reddy's label?) was regularly yanking this original version off YouTube. glad it's still here. read Gail Collins' new book.

[euclapass23]

a timeless classic in every way...

[mikemelvyn4]

Bravo to I am woman that is my favorite theme

i also paid the price

[TheKingOfSkiffle]

I enjoy sophisticated political arguments like this, but my favorite part of youtube is the reviews. Some poor bastard pours his heart out on a poorly tuned guitar in his bathroom and people come up with incredibly merciless insults. It's hysterical. If you have time to waste, please feel free to look at my performances and post the most unkind things you can think of. It makes my day every time. Thanks.

[iolande1]

great song - mum played this a lot when I was a kid - yay for feminism!

[starquant]

John Lennon Penned a track in 1972 called "women are the Niggers of the world". I am more inclined to believe those lyrics, than the nonsense sung her song (and read Johns lyrics before sending me hate mail). I base my comment on behalf of the 65 million females aborted in China, the 105 million Females aborted in India and the 10 million (or so (flippant)) in muslim countries under the honour system in the last 8 years. Source United Nations 2002 and Amnesty international.

[TheKingOfSkiffle]

We're trying to enjoy YouTube here. Granted, the world is in many places and many ways a cruel and unforgiving place, for women especially. But for Christ's fucking sake, I'm trying to listen to the bubblegum pop of my youth. Take your sad statistics and stick them up your blog. That's where this belongs. Get one and shut the fuck up, sourpuss.

[starquant]

Unfortunately for the likes of people such as yourself. Youtube has opened a portal for women to express stastics in a forum where they have been unable to do so in the past. If you don't like it, then TOUGH. Go tell someone who cares.

[TheKingOfSkiffle]

That's exactly my point, sweetpants. Who goes to youtube and pulls up I Am Woman looking for the sad statistics of global human rights abuses? Honestly, how many people do you think have an epiphany about geopolitics while listening to I Am Woman? Seriously, now.

[starquant]

My pants are not sweet for a start. " I am Woman " evokes emotional responses because that is exactly why it was written. It was written for the International year of the woman in 1977. So DO YOUR HOMEWORK. It was a song written exactly for that purpose, to evoke a response and start a dialogue. If you don't like it, then write to Helen in Norfolk Island. Personally, I am not surprised she lives there, after the backlash she got for writing such a track. A woman wanting rights,well who knew??.

[cliiff2]

It was written for the International year of the woman in 1975, so you do your homework.

[CarbonSXMonkey]

What is your issue?. This is an arena for freedom of speech. Starquant has opened my eyes to abuse that is worldwide. Go back into your cave you self serving knuckle dragging Neanderthal and keep your nasty comments to yourself and go beat your woman in the privacy of your own home, instead of advertising it in the internet.

[TheKingOfSkiffle]

Now, let's be serious, honeypot. You didn't know before you read what's-her-name's post that women were abused worldwide? Please. Also, why do you assume I'm against freedom of speech if I suggest that politics and hokey pop music don't belong on the same page? Why am I a knuckle-dragging wife-beater if I don't express my profound unquestioning gratitude to what's-her-face for being utterly without any sense of humor, and you too, for that matter? Go get a pedicure and lighten up. Christ.

[starquant]

You call me sweetpants and Carbon honey pot. You are a patronising GIT. So, go and have a wank in private and leave it off the net. OK Darhlink!!!!.;

[CarbonSXMonkey]

What a dork.lol

[TheKingOfSkiffle]

P.S. The bit about beating my woman in private? Very funny. Maybe you do have some vestige of a sense of humor after all.

[CarbonSXMonkey]

You really are a DORK

[sigzor85]

What a great piece of ass she used to be!!

[TheKingOfSkiffle]

You know who else was hot?  Toni Tennille. I think The Captain was a homo.

[honeycone71]

The Captain a homo????? Are you serious.

[honeycone71]

LOL. I'm dying here. I just don't see it. Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille have been married since the Stone Age. If The Captain is gay, he certainly holds the record for the longest closet case I've known. Sorry, but even as a gay man myself, I just don't see it.

[pz3j]

I'd like to "hear her roar" as I plant my pecker deep up her.

[starquant]

Mate, you are a coward. You can't make it with women in the real world and "think" that insulting them on cyberspace gives you somekind of power. Well, Shame on you. I bet you are 5 foot tall and need a microscope to see your own manhood. Dehumanising females on the internet seems to be your only outlet. Your a sad sad Man. PS: If any woman ever spreads her legs for you, I hope all your children are female.

[RichoRosai]

Women should only be heard in he form of chopping knives, spatulas, and the moans that seep out during sex in spite of their best efforts.

[starquant]

I hope you never have the abilty to reproduce. But if you do, may all your blessings be female. I don't have time for ignorant people like you. You probably sit in strip clubs, wanking off in a dark corner. Tell someone who cares.

[RichoRosai]

Don't worry, if I ever ended up with a worthless female offspring I'd make sure to get rid of it without the authorities needing to know it had ever been born.

[azmike007]

I really liked this song for the music, the message (to a point) and HER VOICE! She has such a strong, yet feminine voice! It also reminds me of my youth and ta decade in time...in which I grew-up. Ahhhm to be young again.

[Oilisdeathtomany]

I remember when this song came out. As a nine year old black sheep, this song really spoke to me. The International Year of the Woman was 1974, iirc, and the world was a considerabley different place to what it is today. Women today should acknowledge their current "rights" to songs like this. When this song came out, women were paid a lower wage for the same job. If you can be bothered, look through some old job ads and you'll see a male/female wage rate as part of the advertisement.

[alucard449]

women are still paid less

[Oilisdeathtomany]

Over all, you're absolutely right. We've still got a long way to go. In some ways, women have missed the point. They seem to use overt sexuality to show they're empowered. Not that we should deny that part of ourselves but do we really so much T&A out there, when we could be flashing out intellect? Sometimes, it seems we're our own worst enemy.

[starquant]

Just to add to your comment. Stastics from the United Nations in 2008 showed that over 70% of the worlds heavy lifting, is in fact, done by women. So much for the weaker sex.

[RichoRosai]

As they should be, if at all.

[starquant]

That's all very well if you can in fact get the "same" job. I wonder what the hell that isby definition?. Doe's it mean that if your a man, you naturally get a "better" job than a woman. Come on, tell me something I didn't know for christs sake. What a load of Rhettoric. Don't tell me how to suck shit mate, I have been doing that all my life. Pitty these "new" rules only applied to a "certain" number of women and the rest could "Go to Hell".

[altered1219]

the best domestic violence song I have ever heard.

[TheKingOfSkiffle]

Yeah. I would have smacked her too.

[bryanross1985]

omg, this song is absolutely awful.

[Cowcharge]

lol, it is a bit dated, but it's not completely horrible. Be glad you weren't around to hear it on the radio every ten minutes back then, hehe.