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Friday, April 3, 2020

This must be explained, a feminist poem

Our grandmothers love us, aunts too
mothers of course love us
daughters, too,
wives, girlfriends, mistresses
love us, fall in love with us, make love to us
even female platonic friends love us
yet we are dominant and patriarchal
this must be explained


1 comment:

Leslie B. said...

Oh - women are socialized to excuse the dominant / patriarchal. Or even to like it.

But also and more perversely, it is kind of interesting, it's such an odd set of attitudes and it makes men kind of foreign, like actual foreigners, eccentric, you get to say wow, the variety of human cultures is great, things like that.