I am a woman; I am human

in #poetry7 years ago (edited)

I AM A WOMAN; I AM HUMAN
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I am a woman; so when I get into an argument with my husband and he slaps me, although it will hurt, yet societal would tell me that I provoked him..
When I somehow get into an argument with a man, and i slap him in return, society will tell me that i have no respect..
Because I am a woman, I don't have any right to be angry..
Because I am a woman, my husband might cheat on me ,and society would tell me to tolerate it in a bid to save your marriage..
I am a woman; if i cheat, I would be called a whore, and considered to have committed an abomination..
When he is 30 year old and runs a company.,he's tagged wonderful, hardworking, focused, career oriented, successful at a very young age; but when you 30 and you run a company, they would say "she is not even married, unserious, can not order her priorities right, a hustler, loves money, let her go and get a husband oh"
And I wonder if being successful has anything to do with a person's gender.
When a man looses his wife to death and remarries a year after, he did the right thing, he's being praised and congratulated for moving on, afterall life is for the living.
When you as a woman loose your husband to death and remarries after 4yrs, they would say 'so early? Are you sure she wasn't sleeping with that man even when her husband was alive? That was why she killed her husband. She's a witch! "
But I would never forget this, I never let this out of my mind, I keep it in my sub-concious, irrespective of whatever comes my way for being a woman;
I know that being a woman does not make me less human!!!
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