Sunday
1/3/99!!!
I was not raped by a madman. I was not spit upon or cursed for entering a church while menstruating. I was not held down while old women cut off my clitoris. My vagina has never been sewn shut or ripped open. I was not forced to burn myself to death on the guneral pyre of a dead husband. I was not drowned in the Yangtze River because I was born without a penis. I was not sold int a harem in Khartoum. I was not stoned for touching the Torah. My throat was not slashed for sleeping with a man not my husband. I have never been beaten by a pimp. I was not held prisoner in a closet for seven years. I was never made to bless the size of a whip before my husband beat me with it. I was not dismembered wiaht a chain saw. I was not stabbed to death by Richard Speck.
My nipples were not cut off by a razor blade. I was not sodomized by my father. My feet were not bound until my arches snapped. I was not burned at the stake in France. I was not suffocated to death by the removal of brass rings from my elongated neck. I was not hanged as a witch in Salem. I did not go blind from my husband's syphilis. I never found the need to feign hysteria so that I could avoid intercourse and the pregancy that woudl kill me. I was not beaten or sent to an asylum for masturbating.
I was not tried for a crime by dunking. I was not an Arabian princess executed for refusing to deny that I had teenage sex. I was not forced to kill my daughters to keep them from becoming concubines. My blood was never used to make mortar.
I did not have to endure running sores from a chasity belt. I was not tortured to death for adultery by having my legs tied together during laybor. I was not forced to watch my stomach slit oben to save a child who'd forever be called a bastard. I was not required by a courtto give up custody of a toddler to a husband who was a child molester. I was not beaten by a lover so badly I had to feed myself though a straw. I was not hanged by my hands and whipped for dropping my veil.
I never had to nurse one of my husband's six other wives back to health. I was not filmed copulating with dogs. I never found it necessary to write my last words in excrement and menstural blood on the walls of a windowliess cell. I have not delivered a baby squatitng in a bean field. My children were not taken away from me because I left home without permission of a rabbinical court. I was not raped before my execution so that my murderers could avoid the Korans's prohibitions against killing a virgin.
I was not sent into the desert as a demon for refusing to lie under my husband. I was never called a whore because I didn't have a hymen. I was not given in marriage at the age of nine to an eighty-year old Nepalese man. I was not left to die alone because I became a widow. I was not a young virgin who was buried alive to appease someone else's gods. I was not doused with kerosene and set afire so that my husband could collect a new dowry. I was not fitted with iron rings on my feet and chainged to a post and left to starve because I loved another woman. I did not go blind sewing small stiches in a sweat shop. I have never seen a crowd of men cheering for the Yorkshire Ripper. I was not freely raped by my prison guards because I had joined a women's union. I was not required to marry my older sister's husband when she died. I was not murdered on my wedding night for failing to show virgin blood. I have never serviced twenty Japanese businessmen in a Korean brothel. My legs were not severd and sewn on backward for having sex with a man not my husband. The law never equated me with minors, savages, and the insane. My tounge was never cut out for speaking in the presence of my tribal cheif.
No court has ever forced me to mary my rapist so that he could recieve a smaller sentence for the crime. I ahve never had to pay the tax collector with my body. I was not killed by having a stake driven through my vagina. I was never made to eat lice from my husband's head. They flesh was never cut from my body and fed to my grandfather to cure his incurable disease. I did not grind my teeth to the gums chewing leather to make my master's moccacins soft.
I did not have to preform endless fellatio on an old husband who could not climax. I was not fired because I refused to give sexual favors to a boss. I was not rejected form medical school, or excluded form a club I wished to join, or deprived the the chairmanship of my department, or denied the Medal of Freedom. I was never forced to sew buttons on a man's shirt. I was not even sent to my room for conduct unbecoming a lady.
.... I didn't commit the crimes of which I am charged for any one of these reasons. I comitted them for all of them. Because even though none of these things happened to me, any of them could have happened to me. And one, which I have no mendioned, did. And why? Because I am the most heinous crime of them all. The one of which I am profoundly, notoriously, and undeniably guilty.
I am a woman."
From Stanley Pottinger's The Fourth Procedure pg 524.
- my goddess
previous thoughts of the day
(thoughts of the day before this one may not have links to all of the other thoughts of the day)
the Dream Train
excerpts
I Do Not Want This... by Trent
There once was a little girl... 2 (y'all better read this one...)
Everything
Thank You
Wrestling Woman Inards
School and Psychoanalysis...
Vengeance!!!
Brandon
listening to Bush and feeling sassy...
The once was a little girl.... 1
I want to believe
Timing by RohanDor
...for you have left your first love.
On Love
the Mystical, Magic Land of Algebra2
Something Wicked This Way Comes
What does one do?
Cold Sweat Nightmares
Hate Me
Personal Inventory by Dollphini
First Contact, with Kyle
:::whispers::: Lime-Green Elephant
"They say that sex between two people who really hate each other..."
Boys are Yucky
What happens if we all fall down?
Vegas
BluesMan84
Politics and Wealth
The Nature of God
The Nature of Man
Beauty
Only the Good Die Young by Dollphini
Ode to Shawn
poetry
the embrace
about me
links
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