Speak your mind even if your voice shakes
Screams splinter the air
Shattered pieces of innocence
Pierce her soul
Unasked for knowledge
Never forgotten
The price a child has paid.
Shunned and alone
With stripes her body is adorned
Her pleas fall to deaf ears
Her life unmourned
Pain grips her now
The price she must pay.
Blood flows like water
Tears flow like rain
Mother cries for daughter
Memories of pain
Silent as unspoken sorrow
Her life ebbs away
She’ll never know the price
A woman must pay.
How nice to know that abuse can still generate a chuckle or two.
There’s nothing that says ‘I do’ more than having your rear end forever marked with your husband’s initials on your wedding night. Officials are questioning a 54-year-old man who forcibly used a cattle brander on his 22-year-old wife the night before their wedding.
The jealous husband explains that he tried to justify the branding by saying he wanted to make sure that other men knew right away that his new wife was his, and only his.
A woman branded on the night before her wedding makes a cute news story. Does it really?
What exactly is cute about the scar she will now carry the rest of her life?
What is cute about the damage to her body and psyche?
What is cute about the breach of trust? The fear? The pain?
There’s nothing that says ‘I do’ more than having your rear end forever marked with your husband’s initials on your wedding night.
How could these lines be written unless there was some agreement that she is property? That he had a ‘right’ to commit this act of abuse.
The police say “he has some explaining to do”.
Some explaining? What explanation would make what he did alright?
Well this humour challenged radical feminist sees no humour in this story. I do however find it funny that anyone can say with a straight face feminism is not needed.
Menstruating: the act of being something that bleeds for 5-7 days and doesn’t die.
When we are born, we are usually born head first but it is what is between our legs that matters most.
Before the colour of our eyes, the shape of our nose, while we are still learning to draw breath, our lives are mapped, our dreams limited, our destiny set by the act of being born with a vagina. [Read more…] about Day 13 (Dec. 6th Action)
We have seen this government cut 5 million dollars from the budget of Status of Women.
End funding for lobbying, research and advocacy on women’s issues.
Drop the word equality and drop the word political from
“the full participation of women in the economic, social, cultural and political life of the country”
Most of these changes to take place April 1st.
How appropriate a date when we have a fool in charge. [Read more…] about Day 12 (Dec. 6th Action)
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