Friday, April 29, 2016

Sarah St Vincent Welch # 118 Rise (Nod to MLS)





Rise

rise to oppose
I say

sexism and misogyny
sexism and misogyny

Not now, not ever

not appropriate for high office

misogyny looks
needs a mirror …  

repulsive
repulsive double
misogyny and sexism

offended

he was a minister
says
men have more power generally speaking than women,
is that a bad thing?

underrepresentation of women
says, But now, there's an assumption that this is a bad thing.

offended
offended

said
the women of Australia

“housewives of Australia
as they do the ironing”
catcalling across this table at me
make an honest woman of herself …

witch
Bitch
Misogyny, sexism, every day

Every day in every way,
across the time,
all we have heard

Doesn't turn a hair

apologise
apologise
battering ram

hypocrisy
everything
that I should take responsibility for,
Has he taken any responsibility

vile things were being said
viewed as good fun
ducking

vile conduct
keen to lecture others
shame.

groaning
statements that are anti-women

an exhibition of his new feminine side
I am offended by those text messages

double standard
revolting
unacceptable
apologise

witch
bitch

double standards
reject

we are entitled
to a better standard than this

(a poem found [sequentially] in the text of Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s speech to the Australian Parliament,
9 October 2012, which was about the Leader of the Opposition) 

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