Unite and take over

I've blogged about "Shoplifters of the World" before. In particular I've written about how the lyrics are obvious allusions to Morrissey having sex with men.

So the other day Big Daddy and I were on our way to work (Mama got a new job about a year ago and it's very good) and Shoplifters of the World came on. Now, for my money this is PEAK GAY SPM, but Big Daddy was all, "I'm sure it was originally shirt lifters, this."

What?

So Big Daddy explained the term "shirt lifter" (he's old AF) and that it's a slang term for gay men because, as he says, "you lift the shirt."

Full disclosure: it took me a little bit to realize he meant lifting someone's shirt tail as you hit that from behind because I grew up loving hair metal and shirt lifting is something you do to show Tommy Lee your titties. Or Nikki Sixx. Probably not Mick Mars, though, but it takes all kinds.

Anyway, if you assume SPM originally titled the song "shirt lifters" then the song is SO RUDE.

This could be like how if you replace all the instances of "wand" in the Harry Potter series with "wang" it's like WELL rude but that's just something some pervert discovered and unlikely to be JK Rowling's actual meaning.

Digression: I find The Lord of the Rings extremely homoerotic. There are so many places in the book (and the movies, holy shit) where I just want them to get a room.

Big Daddy has been reading me Fellowship as a bedtime story (it helps my anxiety) and there's a line in the beginning when Gandalf is bringing all the fireworks to Bag End that's something like "the old man started to unload at Bilbo's front door" and I was like "more like Bilbo's back door."

We laughed so hard. I would personally enjoy it if they banged. Also Sean Bean and Aragon.

But here's the obvious and very rude lyric:

A heartless hand on my shoulder
A push - and it's over

Guys.

Ok, so I'm considering going to Mexrissey if I haven't missed it already. I want to!  But it means leaving the house. Ew.