While Sheeran claimed to be adhering to his apolitical brand, one critic argued he was really just "letting a pro-Israel billionaire choose his politics for him."
doing the right thing isn’t gendered. I assume you mean “or will you take responsibility and act like an adult”, but the way you phrased it leaves too much room to be interpreted as “don’t be like a woman who can’t take responsibility for their actions”
even if you didn’t mean it that way, this is how sexism perpetuates.
I would posit that the phrase " be a man" insinuates that doing the right thing is an adult trait, unlike being a little boy who runs away from his problems. Not inherently sexist.
Will you be a lousy scab or will you be a man , Ed?
doing the right thing isn’t gendered. I assume you mean “or will you take responsibility and act like an adult”, but the way you phrased it leaves too much room to be interpreted as “don’t be like a woman who can’t take responsibility for their actions”
even if you didn’t mean it that way, this is how sexism perpetuates.
I would posit that the phrase " be a man" insinuates that doing the right thing is an adult trait, unlike being a little boy who runs away from his problems. Not inherently sexist.
It’s from a song called Which Side Are You On. The woman who wrote it just had her husband snatched by the local sheriff for union organizing.