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... for the last five years or so. It has always struck me as an advocacy for assault or domestic violence - we certainly need less of that perspective not more.
Why excite toxic masculinity and possibly trigger assault and battery when we can easily avoid it by steering clear and circumventing those issues.
Thank you Pat Benatar for your insightful approach to pressing social issues and making an effort to better the commonwealth to achieve a more civil and safe community for all.
The couple that inspired me to pick up guitar, while in college (female singer was my girlfriends roomie, and her BF could shred, and they used to play around SLO, CA at the time), used to ROCK that song, it was kinda their signature song.
Her BF taught me some of the first licks and chords I ever knew.
Also the first time I ever sang live in front of a bar full of people was when they let me come up to sing You Shook Me All Night Long with them.
You, me, Master Sarge, DocReed, Glamrock ... nothing in common between us 
IMHO success at YSMANL is very much about timing, palming, and strumming technique. And settling into the pocket.
I can play the rhythm line pretty decent as I'm good at those basics, but I can't really shred lead stuff at all. Never really learned, I was mostly into singing and strumming the acoustic to impress the ladies 
