The Plan of the Man
The man’s always had a plan to slow down the velocity of woman’s journeys
To lower the volume of women’s voices
There’s an appropriate level for your grief and there’s a healthy range for your rage
And when women exceeds
The emotional speed limit
Society puts on the brake
Back in the middle ages they burned unruly women at the stake.
In Victorian times they located our pain, our righteous rage, and Dr. Freud called it “hysteria”.
They use the same tactics but they just change the names.
If you are lucky, you will be called a man
Then, you will be on top of the world, the pinnacle of success, a very powerful person.
This is a catch-22 though,
If you are a woman called a man you are probably miserable
We’ve tried being patient collected calm nice
We’ve tried the cute mute act
I take it back
They blame us for the way our body works.
In case you forgot,
women don’t choose when or if they get their periods!
Trust me, if we could we would!
You may be afraid of the truth
But I’m not afraid to be honest