“it is not taken too kindly when a woman speaks out and is direct. It’s seen as aggressive. Ask your wife”
“ No, that’s not true” said the cis gendered man, as he responded for his wife
Sometimes people think and operate with certain idea of the world, that they do not even know they are operating from.
I had a conversation with cis male about this and I found that he didn’t even stop to think of asking his wife. The opportunity to know how she perceived things lost –compressed out of the conversation. Perhaps she perceived things the same way as him. However, I think the response could stem from a place where the individual has been conditioned to not think twice about consulting his cis gendered woman partner for her perspective. Somehow it is acceptable to seek for women.
That is what I am trying to call attention to with this poem. Especially as seeing Roe vs Wade, which allows women the right to decide over their own bodies, was being called into question in the courts.