I'm so happy a song like this is becoming popular and resonating with people but THE COMMENTS ARE SHIT AS USUAL...
"God forbid we have a safe space that doesn't include them"
'Them' in this case usually including black women, disabled women, intersex and nonbinary people (unless they're "woman" enough) and trans women alongside men. Why? They're not "woman" enough. In allegorical terms, only the most ivory of sheep are allowed to talk about their suffering, while the darker wooled sheep and other animals have to "get there own groups" which means shutting up about their own experiences.
"it's a song for women and girls"
No, it's a song about sexual assault and rape and the trauma it inflicts, written by a woman who was assaulted as a child. It's definitely using the themes of women being assaulted by men such as the little red riding hood story, but saying it's solely that and nothing else is very close-minded on what a song can mean.
"The comments section shouldn't be a place where men talk about how the song isn't about them"
There are significantly less (popular) songs about men being victims of rape and abuse than women, and the songs about being a victim is already a small amount. There are almost no (popular) songs about anyone other than cis white women being victims of this sort of thing, and being like "I wish there was more songs like this about my experiences" doesn't magically make this song disappear into thin air!
"they say this because it's a song only for women and girls"
And that's when you realize this is someone with a very unfortunate mindset about the societal constructs of gender. This sort of thinking leads trans women and gender-nonconforming women to get pushed out of "safe spaces". This thinking leads to trans men being called "traitors" for transitioning, and people who don't fall under either category to either be treated as "women-lite" or "basically men", depending on how they present themselves.
Only white sheep get to "deserve" freedom, and everyone else in the herd is left to die by a system that encourages wolf-ish behavior while anyone suspected of being secretly a wolf is killed. Boys will be Boys and Wolves will be Wolves, and Girls will be Girls and Sheep will be Sheep, and there's nothing beyond this worldview. That's what these comments ultimately read as. I hope Lydia Bard deletes these or addresses these horrible comments, it's a horrible thing to tell a victim they aren't welcome in a "safe" space.