Suffrage Demonstration
at White House – 1916
Photo from vintageperiods.com
misogyny ruled
western civilization
half sham renaissance
marriages arranged
male commercial transactions
females sold voiceless
undowered virgins
filled medieval nunneries
sexist existence
women ill viewed
by tradition as merely
breeders or trophies
be seen and not heard
unschooled barefoot and pregnant
suffrage denied
thank God my daughters
arrived in enlightenment
so long overdue
Writer Lynne Sargent
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Poesy plus Polemics 
such as it is – still better than it was!!!
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we’re getting there
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This side of the pond we claim the oldest of the modern democracies – we count it back to days before women got to vote. Count women in and that which we applaud is not even 100 years old.
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and like any youngster, our post-modern societies continue to stumble toward maturity
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Very good – it’s always our sons and daughters that raise or consciousness most.
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you know, Laine, I have long said that I always learned more from my children than they learned from me
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when i lived in wyoming i took women’s studies and sociology of families for some years…very enlightening, especially during that pivotal point of my psychological development-i wish they’d teach with more honesty in general studies. your writing here is a nice reflection, most feminist (i know) raise holy hell when men speak up and refuse to hear a masculine voice, so thank you. you’re a good father.
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I had good parents
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Nice! We often romanticize the past and forget the progress we’ve made. =)
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poets never forget
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Liberating . . .
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Reblogged this on OUR POETRY CORNER.
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thank you for sharing my poem with your readers
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sobering piece. Yes to all the advances. Sadly, the velvet glove has too often been tutored by the iron fist of privilege and misuse of power. We’re still on our way–indebted to women and men who fought tooth and nail to give us tools we desperately need. We honor them when we use the tools, and include in our vision all the women and men in this world we inhabit together. Your daughters are blessed to have a father with such vision.
Elouise
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I was blessed with an upbringing by parents who were true partners in every aspect of life
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Well, unfortunately the old attitudes are often still hiding behind outward expressions of “enlightenment”–but we can hope for continued progress.
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progress that can no longer be arrested
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Very very empowering for a woman to hear a man poetically describe the equality of his daughters! Thank you!
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it was my pleasure
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Reblogged this on Poesy plus Polemics.
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I agree, just seems so stupid to me to have to stand up for our rights, for anyone to have to stand up for their rights, we are all the SAME!!!! Human beings….. thank you for this post, Michelle
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I sincerely appreciate that
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Thank you. I have three sons and am proud that they see through the eyes of their wives and daughters. The road still lies ahead of us but we’re making progress.
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much appreciated
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