Kid Gloves Question
Eric Alexander Zomer
Please permit me to be naive, by the following question:
Could somebody please tell me what 'Kid Gloves' is about?
I've been having watery eyes for years, when listening to it, and
subconsciously some things are stirred somewhere, but it'd love to
satisfy my rational side as well.
Regards,
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MRobert191
understand are just that,gloves made from the skin of baby goats,and are
used to handle extremely delicate things such as ceramics,glassware and
have other scientific uses. I think what he means is that sometimes it is
best to use our kid gloves when exploring the delicate nature of our own
self perceptions as opposed to the bare knuckled approach:reflecting our
clenched fists back in our own faces. It's about learning and growing.
Eric D. Stanfield
: Nobody loves a metaphor more than Neil Peart. Kid gloves from what I
....it's also a common term used to describe dealing with someone in a delicate
way rather than hittin em hard and heavy.
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***And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start....
...to mold a new reality, closer to the heart...***
Scott Erb
> Dear Rush fans,
>
> Please permit me to be naive, by the following question:
> Could somebody please tell me what 'Kid Gloves' is about?
> I've been having watery eyes for years, when listening to it, and
> subconsciously some things are stirred somewhere, but it'd love to
> satisfy my rational side as well.
Perhaps that's as it should be -- we all interpret lyrics in our own way
and each song has a meaning for each individual. That, in fact, makes
listening an interactive process. If we simply "knew" exactly what Neil
meant, it might make it more difficult to find our own meaning in the
songs.
-scott
Ted Ollier
> In article <3ikjp1$p...@news.xs4all.nl>, za...@xs4all.nl (Eric Alexander Zomer) writes:
> |> Dear Rush fans,
> |>
> |> Please permit me to be naive, by the following question:
> |> Could somebody please tell me what 'Kid Gloves' is about?
> |> I've been having watery eyes for years, when listening to it, and
> |> subconsciously some things are stirred somewhere, but it'd love to
> |> satisfy my rational side as well.
> |>
> |> Regards,
I'm wondering if someone already replied, but WTF. Treating
someone with "kid gloves" means you are taking a "soft approach" to the
situation ("kid", in this instance, means "a young goat", which,
evidently, yields a very soft leather to make gloves out of). Generally,
it is understood to mean to spoil a child or otherwise be lacking in
parental authority.
The song itself has several layers built around this meaning;
however, the most coherent message I can glean is this: Children in this
society are most often ignored or let go their own way, whether by
unwitting negligence or a deliberate desire not to "spoil" the child by
too much attention (which, generally, means an abdication of parental
responsibility). These children grow up learning to do unto others before
they do unto you ("reversing the Golden Rule", and thinking "it's cool to be
so tough"), until someone bigger comes along and does unto you anyway
("it's tough to be so cool").
When you have a situation like that, you have kids who think that
aggression and anger are the only solutions to their problems, and the
only way you can deal with them is very, very carefully. So, by refusing
to don the "kid gloves" in the first place, you are forced to use them in
the end.
There's a further reading of a specific line ("Anger cut bare
knuckles, anger play the fool") that I especially like, because it turns
the phrase on its ear--the kids are fighting bare-handed (no gloves), and
if they'd only learned (by example, maybe) to use "kid gloves" in their own
interpersonal relations, then they wouldn't need to fight in the first
place. :)
And just to wrap things up, the song always reminds me of the
quote "In every generation lie the seeds of barbarism."
Comments, anyone?
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Doug Lavan
Sounds good. But just for your info. I think kid gloves is also
used in this expression: "It's time to take off the kid gloves."
Usually in the context of a situation that is beyond the gentle approach
and needs bare knuckles.