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“Chabadshlucha, I also asked about it being sung at a male-only event. (I gave some examples.) Based on your comment it appears you’d see that the same as singing shelo asani goy at a Jewish-only event”

No its different. It is advisable and admirable to keep ourselves apart from the goyim so that we can retain the extra kedusha and standards we are expected to have as Hashem’s holy nation. Therefore the song is OK even as the message is we are not goyim, as long as it is sung in appropriate settings as mentioned above.

However as explained above, men and women are two halves of one wholesome persona and unit, and as such such a song or celebration of male advantages is just weird and bad middos as it comes across as bashing the females, even if sung at a male only event.

We are meant to work together and strengthen each other, quietly thank Hashem for our unique maalos and appreciate the others strengths as well, not tout our superiority in one area or another and bash the other gender.

There is also plenty of material to make male bashing songs based on women’s maalos. But Torah isn’t there to promote gaava, egoism and destruction of others… Quite the opposite.

Deracheha darchei noam vchol nesovoseha *shalom*.