Thank you for the poem, Tara, and especially for sticking with the intro that was so hard to write. Your final draft is clear, compassionate, uncompromising, and true true true.
Thank you for writing this. I didn't always speak up. But my kids do and I listen and because they are still small I email, I report, I make a nuisance of myself until their voice is heard.
I'm glad you posted the intro as well as the poem, Tamsin. It explains clearly why woman treat men as guilty until they prove themselves innocent- because getting that wrong on a date, a dog walk or in a relationship costs women their lives.
To the good men out there. Yes, we see you too, and we're glad when we know you and have you in our lives.
Being a woman in this world is not an easy idea to put into words or have conversations about. Not just because of the often tough content matter, but because misogyny is so woven throughout humanity's culture it's hard to separate it from the cloth of existence. Thank you for sharing part of your experience, Tara.
I remember reading this poem back in February, and reading it now, with your intro, several of the lines affected me differently. I love how poetry is flexible like that. I'm always here for women engaging in conversations. We must.
Lived reality is always more real than anything online. If someone asks me what I think of men, I tell them that men have always had a capacity for violence that women don't, but also that the majority of men are good men, and that my life, my real life, my *actual* experience, is full of kind, sincere, caring men who have never been cruel or violent to a woman
Horribly true. Male violence is not universal but it is so ubiquitous that the only option is to act as if it is universal and for all men to work towards a better society.
Thank you for the poem, Tara, and especially for sticking with the intro that was so hard to write. Your final draft is clear, compassionate, uncompromising, and true true true.
Love this Tara x
Thank you for writing this. I didn't always speak up. But my kids do and I listen and because they are still small I email, I report, I make a nuisance of myself until their voice is heard.
i am a husband, a father of a daughter and have a granddaughter. I bitterly regret the truth you write of. Daniel
I'm glad you posted the intro as well as the poem, Tamsin. It explains clearly why woman treat men as guilty until they prove themselves innocent- because getting that wrong on a date, a dog walk or in a relationship costs women their lives.
To the good men out there. Yes, we see you too, and we're glad when we know you and have you in our lives.
Being a woman in this world is not an easy idea to put into words or have conversations about. Not just because of the often tough content matter, but because misogyny is so woven throughout humanity's culture it's hard to separate it from the cloth of existence. Thank you for sharing part of your experience, Tara.
I remember reading this poem back in February, and reading it now, with your intro, several of the lines affected me differently. I love how poetry is flexible like that. I'm always here for women engaging in conversations. We must.
Thank you for writing this, Tara, for your courage in posting what needs to be said. This post and the poem are so powerful.
You write what is truth for so many of us. Thank you.
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Lived reality is always more real than anything online. If someone asks me what I think of men, I tell them that men have always had a capacity for violence that women don't, but also that the majority of men are good men, and that my life, my real life, my *actual* experience, is full of kind, sincere, caring men who have never been cruel or violent to a woman
Yes. I love this too. Those last few lines are such a clincher. Thank you for sharing this.
Horribly true. Male violence is not universal but it is so ubiquitous that the only option is to act as if it is universal and for all men to work towards a better society.