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What the hell is the city gonna do now?
Posted by dannyconversekieneker]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:17:39 -0700 The Stranger Posted by cdc]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:34:44 -0700 The Stranger Posted by cdc]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:33:11 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Eric from Boulder]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:26:04 -0700 The Stranger 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.

Posted by John maszka]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:26:02 -0700 The Stranger Posted by drunk seahawks fan]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:11:29 -0700 The Stranger