The video opens with Coach Kammerer commenting that the gender‑equality movement has largely expanded opportunities for women while leaving men on a much narrower, restrictive path. He frames the upcoming song as a critique of women’s expectations imposed on men. The song "Out of the Question" by Mark Sherman follows, featuring lyrics that reject prescribed male behavior, question how success is measured, and express frustration with societal pressures. The narrator uses metaphors of scales, rulers, and teaspoons to illustrate the futility of trying to quantify personal worth, and repeatedly declares that conforming to these expectations is "out of the question."
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Hi, Coach Kammerer here. It's pretty clear that the gender equality movement has done a lot more to expand life options for women than it has for men. Women seem to have an 8-lane superhighway with lots of on and off ramps and connections to wherever they want to go. And we'll be right back to hear a song about a man who's not too happy about being pushed along the much more narrow path that seems reserved for men. So wouldn't it be nice for women to think about their unfair expectations of men as much as they want us to think about our unfair expectations of them? The man in this song you're about to hear is not letting a woman's expectations control his life. Here is "Out of the Question" by Mark Sherman.
Oh, you say the only way for me to save myself is if I learn just how I should behave myself. Well, honest, that's an interesting suggestion. But darlin', it's just out of the question. Well, I hear the words that you keep on sayin' about the laws that I should be obeyin'. You say, come on, baby, try it, there's nothin' to it. Well, baby, I try, but I just can't do it. I don't live each day for that day alone, but also for that day someday in the old age home. I don't just wanna sit there on that day. Mother and shoot, I just let it slip away. We got scales to measure weight, rulers measure height. We got teaspoons to measure teaspoons. We got meters to measure the light. But with all our knowing, baby, you just gotta confess, we ain't got no way to measure our success. Well, one person eats another one's meat and he dies. At weddings, sometimes even the bridegroom cries. I read about a guy who made millions, but he got so blue, he made a big hole in the middle of Park Avenue. You say, come on, baby, don't you know what's right? And I say no, and then we always fight. Baby, maybe your way it won't harm me, but sometimes the alarm clock does alarm me. And yet You say the only way to save myself is if I learn just how I should behave myself. Well, Honest, that's an interesting suggestion, but baby, it's just out of the question. Well, Honest, That's an interesting suggestion, but baby, it's just out of the question.
