“Love Me Like a Man...” Really?

There’s a song that Diana Krall sings that drives me up the wall when I hear it. Sung by a woman, she is asking, “Love me like a man...”. Now I have to wonder: does she want someone to love her as a man would love her, or is she asking someone to love her as if she were a man? Gender issues are difficult enough to unsnare without them bubbling over into song!