http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/03/tory-poetry-uk-poets-of-color-and-the-oxford-job-hunt/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/03/tory-poetry-uk-poets-of-color-and-the-oxford-job-hunt/#comment-8108 Vivek Narayanan Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:25:47 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1307#comment-8108 Pretending to be a victim, are you, John? Pretending to be a victim, are you, John?
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/03/tory-poetry-uk-poets-of-color-and-the-oxford-job-hunt/#comment-8107 john maszka Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:45:00 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1307#comment-8107 White, Straight Male in a “Feminist’s” World By John Maszka Once again, she ignores me—calling on everyone else, just not me. She waits for someone else to speak…Anyone at all; as long as they’re female or gay or a different color than me. Even when she acknowledges me, she tells me to wait and then never allows me to speak. I don’t know why I even try. I’m invisible and yet still, she targets me with isolation. She’s obviously very angry, Her passive-aggression gives her away. “Did you have your hand up?” She asks the others but never me. “Do you have something to add?” Words I’ll never hear. Not here anyway. My opinion is not welcome. My offense has nothing to do with what I’ve done, and everything to do with what I am. I’m a white male— And heterosexual too! I might as well be a leper! “Unclean!” Ostracized by the “feminist” who claims to champion the unempowered; but she uses her position of power to oppress and silence. Her thin veil of hypocrisy, yellow like her teeth, barely conceals her cowardice. Are you the “son of a Swan?” or the abandoned offspring of a harpy? The goddess Diana resents your name. You preach about ethics, but look what you do. You’re not a feminist, you’re a liar—and the worst kind… Pretending to be a victim as you wipe the blood from your lips. White, Straight Male in a “Feminist’s” World
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John Maszka
Once again, she ignores me—calling on everyone else, just not me.
She waits for someone else to speak…Anyone at all; as long as they’re female or gay or a different color than me. Even when she acknowledges me, she tells me to wait and then never allows me to speak.
I don’t know why I even try.
I’m invisible and yet still, she targets me with isolation.
She’s obviously very angry,
Her passive-aggression gives her away.
“Did you have your hand up?” She asks the others but never me.
“Do you have something to add?” Words I’ll never hear.
Not here anyway.
My opinion is not welcome.
My offense has nothing to do with what I’ve done, and everything to do with what I am.
I’m a white male—
And heterosexual too!
I might as well be a leper!
“Unclean!”
Ostracized by the “feminist” who claims to champion the unempowered;
but she uses her position of power to oppress and silence.
Her thin veil of hypocrisy, yellow like her teeth, barely conceals her cowardice.
Are you the “son of a Swan?”
or the abandoned offspring of a harpy?
The goddess Diana resents your name.
You preach about ethics, but look what you do.
You’re not a feminist, you’re a liar—and the worst kind…
Pretending to be a victim as you wipe the blood from your lips.
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