"Seventeen Warnings In Search Of A Feminist Poem"

[yelhsassim]

1. Beware of the man who denounces ambition

Comments

[mswyrr]

...and bitterness, of course, is the worst sin a woman can commit.

Women are supposed to be sweet and commodating, and completely ignore the fact that they're fucked sideways by a society that lets them be cheated our of fair wages, assaulted, commodified, and then disparaged if they dare to raise a peep about it.

[kynetik]

boy am I glad I don't live in America if this is how you treat women lol

[sandokai]

Yeah, my thought was "Why would I care if a man wanted to wear a dress?"

[iatrogenicmyth]

Well, Jong was a part of second wave feminism, before abortion was legal and during the ERA amendment fight, so if this poem is older, it does make sense.

[mswyrr]

Yeah. Why exactly am I supposed to beware of men who want to wear dresses? They're not more likely to be assholes than men who've never donned a frock.

And, on a shallow level, some men in dresses are quite pretty.

Re: #3

[coqdorysme]

First off: an adorable choice of userpic!

And I know right, that is exactly what I thought too. Glad I'm not the only one.

Re: #3

[jesuslovesbono]

haha, i noticed

[sandokai]

Very interesting.

[yaoishonen]

I thought it was pretty great. Of course it's not accurate, but it's funny.