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Shocking News: Women Are People Too

Don't tell me to shut up and be grateful,

For the rights "given" to me.

Nobody "gave" me my sovereignty.

It is mine, inherently.

 

To say that I should be grateful to possess more rights

Than the women before me,

Is like to say I should be grateful to the theif

Who only steals twenty dollars, when he used to steal fifty.

 

As long as I live in a society that blames a **** victim

For being too ****

As long as I live in a society that creates an institutional

Gendered Heirarchy,

And as long as I live in a society where people feel trapped

By their ****** identity

 

I will not shut up and be grateful.

I will be loud and angry.

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courier-pigeon
Published
Mar 14, 2013
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Inspired by a conversation I had with my Dad.

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