Because
woman's work is under paid or unpaid &
what we look like is
more important than what we do &
if we love women it's
because we can't get a real
man & if we expect community care for
our family we are selfish & if we stand up
for our rights we are loud & if we don't
we are typical weak females &
if we want to get married we are out to trap a man &
if we don't we are unnatural &
because we aren't deemed responsible enough
to decide if, when and
how we give birth,
we are feminists
woman's work is under paid or unpaid &
what we look like is
more important than what we do &
if we love women it's
because we can't get a real
man & if we expect community care for
our family we are selfish & if we stand up
for our rights we are loud & if we don't
we are typical weak females &
if we want to get married we are out to trap a man &
if we don't we are unnatural &
because we aren't deemed responsible enough
to decide if, when and
how we give birth,
we are feminists
- Joyce Stevens (an activist over many years in the left, union and feminist movements, starting with her membership in the Eureka Youth League in 1942 and in the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) in 1945). This was written in 1975 for an International Women's Day broadsheet; the words which followed have been republished on postcards, stickers, posters and t-shirts in Australia and overseas. She has also worked for environmental, Aboriginal and mulit-cultural issues.
5 comments:
aaaaa... ummm, i think feminists tend to go too ballistic. any way to avoid the brickbats now?
;-) chill.. glad to c u back, babe.
Now why does every word in this make absolute sense to me ??!! Could it be because I am a woman, feminist or not !! Baybeh I could shout this from the rooftops, lol !
lol...how true!!!!!!!!!
thankz 4 dropping by. Loved ur blog :)
Paddy - am so curious bt what you could have said that you had to delete the comment! ;-)
Rahul - Glad to be back :-) Been a while hasn't it?
Pincushion - oh yeah, felt exactly the same when I first read this piece!
Elixir - My pleasure...drop in again sometime! :-)
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