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Since I could not express my views and feelings as eloquently - I am sending my Public comment in the guise of a poem written by a 14 year old young girl from Ireland.
Respectfully,
Edeltraut Sokol preussenfrau@hotmail.com <mailto:preussenfrau@hotmail.com>
1005 Quincy St. Port Townsend
360 385-9002
Am Not a Dress:
We are women, we are warriors of steel,
Woman is something no man will ever feel,
Woman is not a skill that any man can hold,
Woman is our word, and it is ours alone,
I am not a dress to be worn on a whim,
A man in a dress is nonetheless a him,
Women are not simply what we wear,
If this offends you, I do not care,
I am not an idea in any man's mind,
And my purpose in life is not to be kind,
So when my rights are trampled every day of the week,
I will not stand by being docile and meek,
I am not defined by sexists eyes,
There is more to a woman than that shallow guise,
That guise of dresses, bikinis, and skirts,
Those clothes are not what womanhood is worth,
I am not a b****, a terf, a whore, a slag,
Hysterical, a witch, a slut, a hag,
No, I am a woman, I'm a female,
Who will not her rights be put up for sale,
I am not defined by what men are not,
So to Hell with cis misogynistic rot,
I am a woman, I'm not a subset of my sex,
If this makes me a dinosaur, so be it, I'm a t-rex,
I am not a bleeder, nor a menstruator,
A womb carrier or a uterus haver,
Those words and phrases are such a sham,
Just call me woman, it is who I am,
We are women, we are warriors of steel,
Woman is something no man will ever feel,
Woman is not a skill that any man can hold,
Woman is our word, and it is ours alone
ΑΩ†♀️
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it’s ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed.Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
A. Schopenhauer
Isaiah 5:20
"God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools, and He has not been disappointed.”
Justice Antonin Scalia