Societal Suicide...

 

Paper: Veiled Women: Religion, and Cultural Practice, Sarah Slininger

© September 17, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

The Economist said:

“Nations That Fail Women Fail.”

You’re neglecting fifty percent of your population,

Decisions in such municipalities,

Have the distinction

Of being chaired by,

Cisgender men,

Whether white males in Texas,

Or Taliban in Afghanistan,

Harsh penalties meted out

For the jealousy of something that we can’t do with our bodies: the gestation of life,

We plant the seed, and we think we’re finished,

We behave more like roaming polar bears than responsible citizens,

Once you make a baby, you’re on tap until you leave the planet,

If you levy penalties for fetal heartbeats at six weeks,

Levy child support payments to the lust pipe-slinging, irresponsible miscreants,

 

Such societies, Taliban, or Texas, tends towards violence,

From Dr. Strangelove to “Enduring Freedom,”

Very few if any women at the decision table,

Generals playing great games on grand chessboards,

Or more primitively: action figures with GI Joe’s,

Oblivious to the reality,

These sons and daughters exist,

Because a woman birthed each one of them on the planet,

They are the reason why the human family exists,

Yet they have no seat at tables in deciding war or peace?

 

What are you afraid [of]?

Perhaps that there would be fewer wars,

And fewer avenues to make profits,

From Jining up false bravado and patriotism,

Jingoism, and sloganeering,

Southern aristocracy penned through their lawyers,

The articles of secession,

Yet not a single one fought in the

“War of northern aggression,”

They made sure they got reparations,

After the conflagration,

Rachel, north, and south was weeping,

Because if their children did not return

With missing limbs, or shell-shocked,

They were “no more.”

 

Fifty percent of the population,

Isn’t at the decision table,

For decisions on their bodily autonomy,

For peace or war,

For the distribution of the common good and public services,

For universal health, free college, maternity, and paternity leave like Denmark,

Like reparations for plantation slavers,

We seem only to have time for tax cuts.

 

Boko Haram and Islamic State

Promise their followers “wives” for their allegiance,

Seventy virgins after a suicide bombing

You have to admit it is an excellent gaslighting trick,

Sheiks that can afford harems,

Frustrate 99% bachelors beneath them,

Oligarchs have honey pot orgies,

On yachts with airbrushed models and silicone booties,

China aborts the female fetus as useless,

To the chagrin of frustrated bachelors,

Quote from The Economist:

It’s “no coincidence

“That Kashmir has one of the most

“Unbalanced sex ratios in India,

“Or that all of the 20 most turbulent countries on the Fragile States Index compiled by

“The Fund for Peace in Washington practice polygamy,”

 

You didn’t spontaneously subdivide in a Petri dish!

The superpower of women,

Is every soul in existence comes FROM them,

I repeat:

Societies that suppress women have a propensity towards violence,

David’s seven wives, and three hundred concubines,

His son, Solomon’s preponderant one-thousand,

It’s no wonder Israel had wars:

There were no women left for the frustrated and poor males left!

 

Much [is made] of Joseph accepting Mary’s pregnancy,

He could have her stoned to death, in commitment to stone age lunacy,

But: nothing made of Jesus and his siblings raised by a single mother after Joseph’s apparent passing,

 

Warren Jeffs had several underage wives in West Texas,

Polygamy, as practiced by proto Mormons,

Shooed away younger men from their homes,

This act was violence.

Because older pedophilic miscreants didn’t want the younger competition,

Many confused young men with little education and fewer life skills,

Wound up depressed, opioid addicted, and homeless,

 

Suppressing the rights of women is societal suicide,

Women are seldom at peace talks, we’ve rarely tried,

Because there is for a sociopathic few more profit,

In making young women, and men dead soldiers,

But each of these soldiers is somebody’s child,

Societies that depends on fraternal bonding,

Choose the women their sons will marry,

Usually based on bribery dowries,

It’s no wonder they still see women as property,

It’s no wonder slavery existed 400 years in old and new Egypt,

It’s no wonder “peace on earth” is illusory,

With men having power over women’s bodies.