Four Swedish police officers’ New York vacation was interrupted when a fight broke out on the subway. The train operator called for support, and — being cops and all — they dutifully stepped in to help until local authorities arrived.
The visiting cops had to subdue the two men involved in the fight, which no doubt takes skill to do safely. But it’s how they did their job after they gained control that really impressed people.
Women against feminism:
Feminism is unnecessary, because I have never personally experienced sexism.
Me:
I have excellent news for you!! We don't have to worry about global warming, because I felt cold today. World hunger is also over, you see, I just ate.
You were told
“Do not give
Boys the One Thing they want -
Do not cheapen yourself
By giving them the One Thing
Because they will lose interest.”
And so you kept your Thing,
Guarded your Modesty fiercely,
Refused to be conquered,
Never thought about conquering
Because you are always the object,
Never the subject.
You locked your Desires away,
Told yourself you don’t want to give away your One Thing,
Your One Thing holds all of your worth!
And to make up for refusing him the One Thing,
You gave him Everything,
Split yourself in two
In order to double the efficiency with which you could give him Things,
Stretched yourself thinner than Dido’s oxhide
In order to be Everything,
Folded yourself away
So you wouldn’t become Too Much.
You ignored the punch in your chest,
Ignored the beat that energises this world,
You forgot that Courage resides in your breath
And that Hope perches on your shoulders,
That you must stand straight to allow it purchase.
You stooped
To lift him up,
To let him think he is Something
And he
Gave your back footprints
In exchange.
And I cried. For myself. For this woman talkin’ about love. For all the women who have ever stretched their bodies out anticipating civilization and finding ruins. Sonia Sanchez (Homegirls and Handgrenades)
