[Cerchio] Male Privilege -

Delete this message

Reply to this message
Author: Jonny Stecchino
Date:  
Subject: [Cerchio] Male Privilege -
Brava sai l'Inglese, bene!
adesso prova ad imparare Internet ed Impresa e
finalmente sarai qualcuno/a
JS

--- Tuula Haapiainen <Cyberscript@???> ha scritto:
> Male Privilege - by D. A. ClarkeRicevo e inoltro,
> anche se mi sembra un po'
> troppo drammatizzato il tutto...mah, in america si
> può, suppongo...
> Tuula
>
>
> MALE PRIVILEGE by D. A. Clarke 1981
> A poem for men who don't understand what we mean,
> when we say men have "it."
>
> Privilege is simple.
> Going for a pleasant stroll after dark.
> Not checking the back of your car as you get in,
> sleeping soundly,
> Speaking without interruption
> and not remembering dreams of rape, that follow you
> all day,
> that woke you crying,
> and Privilege is not seeing your stripped,
> humiliated body
> plastered in celebration
> across every magazine rack.
> is going to the movies and not seeing yourself
> terrorized,
> defamed,
> battered, butchered
> seeing something else.
> Privilege is
> Riding your bicycle across town without being
> screamed at
> or run off the road,
> not needing an abortion,
> taking off your shirt on a hot day, in a crowd,
> not wishing you could type better just in case,
> not shaving your legs,
> having a decent job and expecting to keep it,
> not feeling the boss's hand up your crotch,
> dozing off on late-night busses,
> Privilege is being the hero in the TV show not the
> dumb broad,
> living where your genitals are not denied
> knowing your doctor won't rape you.
> Privilege is
> being smiled at all day by nice helpful women
> it is the way you pass judgment on their appearance
> with magisterial
> authority,
> the way you face a judge of your own sex in court
> and are over-represented in Congress
> and are not strip searched for a traffic ticket or
> used as a dart board
> by your friendly mechanic,
> Privilege is seeing your bearded face reflected
> through the history texts
> not only of your high school days but all your life,
> not being relegated to a paragraph every other
> chapter,
> the way you occupy entire volumes of poetry
> and more than your share of the couch unchallenged.
> It is your mouthing smug, atrocious insults at women
> who blink and change the subject politely
> Privilege is how seldom the rapist's name appears in
> the papers
> and the way you smirk over your PLAYBOY.
> It's simple really,
> Privilege means someone else's pain,
> your wealth is my terror,
> your uniform is a woman raped to death here, or in
> Cambodia or wherever
> wherever your obscene Privilege writes your name in
> my blood,
> it's that simple,
> you've always had it,
> that's why it doesn't seem to make you sick to your
> stomach,
> you have it,
> we pay for it,
> now do you understand?
>
> Femmers Inspiration | Femme Of The Month | Mission |
> Nominations | Resources
> Site Of The Week | Submissions | Very That | Women's
> Causes | Women On The
> Go | WomanRant
> HOME
> Site produced by
>
> All Copyrights Exclusive of Tuff Femme Inc. (TM)
> ©1998-2002
> All design, content, artwork owned exclusively by
> Tuff Femme Inc. (TM)
> Pirates beware, violate copyright laws & legal
> action will be pursued.
>
> per cancellarsi dalla lista, andare su

https://www.inventati.org/mailman/listinfo/cerchio

______________________________________________________________________
Scarica il nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: con webcam, nuove faccine e tante altre novità.
http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.messenger.yahoo.com/