Tuesday, March 12, 2019

day SEVEN HUNDRED and EIGHTY TWO


Female

Female writers,
female doctors,
female athletes.

Female painters,
female carpenters,
female politicians.

I see this strange word everywhere.
In the pages of books and newspapers
in the posts of angry men

and each time I laugh
and think

there are female ants
and female plants
and female giraffes
and female lions

there are female fish
and female dogs
and female hippos
and female cats

and none of these will ever be

a woman.

So tell me,
what is it about that word
that you do not like?

Why not just say woman?

--Ally Malinenko 

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