Feminism and Machoism
They call us vain and fickle,
shallow in our ignorance and hopelessly irrational
and bent on pleasure only,
and although much of that is true
it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth,
just as you men are not just brutish oafs
of no discernment, sensitivity or subtlety
and ruthless egoists who never listen.
Although emancipated, I was never really any feminist
but preferred both sides of any coin.
Thus I understand those lady sisters
who can go crazy about homosexuals
and feminine men with longish hair,
and although I could never have a lesbian sister,
I understand those men who care for feminine brothers.
Unfortunately for us, we don't quite share the same capacity
as men do to have both sexes within themselves,
since macho ladies only make themselves ridiculous or abhorrent,
while softer men with sweeter looks
can be more attractive than women.
Our comfort is, that only we are really women,
which our men really never quite can do without.
Poetry by Laila Roth
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Written on 2008-07-07 at 19:39
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