---
title: UGH.
date: '2013-08-14T09:03:49-04:00'
permalink: /ugh/
tags:
    - reflecting
---

I honestly don’t know what’s worse: that I never knew [these lyrics](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rolling+stones/brown+sugar_20117857.html) at all until [@Karnythia](https://twitter.com/Karnythia/status/366956563719659521) linked to them in the context of [\#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen&src=hash), or that I have not been able to shake the mouth-full-of-marbles version I’ve heard since childhood ever since.

I mean, I knew it was racist and sexist in that generalized “boy, aren’t YOU exotic! I could just eat you up” kind of way — which is to say, little worse than most rock music. But now it’s become the world’s most vile earworm.

I’m horrified that I didn’t know. And I’m disgusted that I can’t get rid of it.