Poetic Reflections That Renew Relationships:

FOR ALL WOMEN

DANCE!!!

As women we are an oppressed gender class, and like all oppressed groups we internalized our oppression and idealized the oppressor.

It is important to find allies among male advocates and there are many, but freedom from sexism comes from an alliance within.  This constant search and fight over the privilege gender comes from the belief that men are truly more valuable than women.

Black women cannot afford to have this ideation, we must stand together with Black men to fight racism, and remain strong in the belief that WE are important too as we face sexist behaviors from our same racial comrades.

All women must come to realize that we are the early transmitter of biases that develop in  our children, by preschool, many adults have communicated that what is male is more desirable than what is female.  Little girls are called “tomboys” for wanting to play with stereotypic “boy” toys, praised for their non-feminine active behaviors, while little boys for playing with “girl toys” are ridiculed, called a sissy, accused to have chosen a sexual orientation (which is asinine)!

So my Sisters, we must love our own gender; to say “I get along best with men” and “women don’t like me” is the impact of internalizing the messages that you are ONLY valuable if you are accepted by men and rejected by women.  This manifestation of self-hate is insidious, which makes Sexism an effective institution.  We become the very tools for the inequality we face.  So there are 3 tenets we MUST  follow.

1.  Stop teaching children to be sexist.

2.  Start loving our own gender in spite of being bombarded by male constructed institutions (social, religious, economic and political) pontificating otherwise.

3.  Forever love yourself at every stage in life, our brothers can do it and we should also have that right.

Remember, every embryo conceived was first female.  This should tell us, at least God believes we are WORTHY!

I dedicated this poetic reflection To All Women. click here: SONG FOR MY SISTERS#

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Use poetic reflections to express the deep emotions you may experience in life.

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