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Teach a man the word no Instead of telling the women that she have used her nails to create daggers along the Lines of his back, use her feet as the rocket that must launch him off of her and onto the pavement away from her Teach the man no It is not a question but a demand Instead of teaching women self preservation skills to use in a dark alley where no one could see another one top of her, pushing and shoving her, Her back, marked up not only by the marks that will stay on her even when they’ve faded, but by the pavement which she will hate forever because it didn’t have the power to swallow her whole Teach a women the word no Instead of telling him that he could have knocked her off, No problem. It is a women, he is a man, it wouldn’t be that hard. Men are stronger than women, it should have been easy Teach them no They are telling you stop Screaming, crying, kicking, but pinned under them but they can’t hear a thing besides the fantasies of their consent Instead of teaching them to use the muscles in their arms, in their legs, in their mouth to push her off, She is just a women. Teach someone the word no, Please stop When they are holding a gun at a man’s head, pointing, ready to shoot Ready to rip flesh apart, while ripping a home apart that they haven’t even touched Teach someone no, Hear them out, listen to their calls that only seem to be noises in the wind, drowned out by sirens Because they are really pleas, banging on someone’s window, hoping someone could just hear their calls Teach someone to say no They are wrong When they have make a false accusation, judged someone’s personality by skin By religion, by sexualtiy, but not by their traits Not for the way they crouch down by their side when they are too weak to whisper in gratitude, not by the way they scream with them when they are promoted, not when their corny jokes make their dimples show and their mouth lift up at the sides giving their stone face a crack Teach someone the word no Because we even though it is a two letter word It still seems to trip people up
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Apr 4, 2017
Apr 4, 2017 at 9:28 PM UTC
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Teach a man the word no Instead of telling the women that she have used her nails to create daggers along the Lines of his back, use her feet as the rocket that must launch him off of her and onto the pavement away from her Teach the man no It is not a question but a demand Instead of teaching women self preservation skills to use in a dark alley where no one could see another one top of her, pushing and shoving her, Her back, marked up not only by the marks that will stay on her even when they’ve faded, but by the pavement which she will hate forever because it didn’t have the power to swallow her whole Teach a women the word no Instead of telling him that he could have knocked her off, No problem. It is a women, he is a man, it wouldn’t be that hard. Men are stronger than women, it should have been easy Teach them no They are telling you stop Screaming, crying, kicking, but pinned under them but they can’t hear a thing besides the fantasies of their consent Instead of teaching them to use the muscles in their arms, in their legs, in their mouth to push her off, She is just a women. Teach someone the word no, Please stop When they are holding a gun at a man’s head, pointing, ready to shoot Ready to rip flesh apart, while ripping a home apart that they haven’t even touched Teach someone no, Hear them out, listen to their calls that only seem to be noises in the wind, drowned out by sirens Because they are really pleas, banging on someone’s window, hoping someone could just hear their calls Teach someone to say no They are wrong When they have make a false accusation, judged someone’s personality by skin By religion, by sexualtiy, but not by their traits Not for the way they crouch down by their side when they are too weak to whisper in gratitude, not by the way they scream with them when they are promoted, not when their corny jokes make their dimples show and their mouth lift up at the sides giving their stone face a crack Teach someone the word no Because we even though it is a two letter word It still seems to trip people up
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Apr 4, 2017
Apr 4, 2017 at 9:28 PM UTC
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