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The guitar tone is rough and searching, the rhythm locked into something mid-tempo and relentless that suggests confrontation without quite erupting into it. Joe Lally's bass underpins the whole thing with a kind of stubborn groundedness, and the interplay between the two guitars — one chordal, one angular — creates a texture that feels argumentative, like two people talking past each other. Guy Picciotto's voice carries the emotional weight, alternating between restrained delivery and moments that nearly crack under pressure. Lyrically this is one of Fugazi's most direct confrontations with gender and bodily autonomy, written specifically about sexual harassment and assault, and the directness is matched by the music's refusal to be comfortable. There's no release in the song, no resolution — it ends having made its accusation without offering absolution or catharsis. That refusal is deliberate and sophisticated, a structural argument against music that soothes. For 1991, this kind of explicit critique delivered with this level of musical seriousness was rare in rock. You don't play this song casually; it demands something from the listener, asks you to hold discomfort rather than discharge it. It belongs to a late night when you're angry about something real and need the anger honored rather than dissolved.