#Me3

I have yet to meet another woman who has not

Had unwanted comments made on "attributes" she's got:

Eyes or lips or legs or hips or thighs or "tits and ass..."

Some just clumsy "compliments" but, most - completely crass.

Women hear "The Law of the Hereafter" on a date;

"If you're not here after what I'm after," he will state

"You will be here after I have left... Without a ride."

(It's why I stopped wearing heels and gained a rapid stride.)

6 to 60, crippled, crazy... Any given night

Women have to block advances they did not invite.

So, the Me Too hashtag didn't come as a surprise,

Not to women but, apparently, to many guys.

I suppose it's possible that men were unaware...

I guess that I'd always just assumed they didn't care,

Not unless the woman was their daughter or their wife.

I thought some misogyny was just a fact of life. 

Dear ISIL Girls... Really?

Had a recent spate of random terrorist attacks - 

Soldiers killed in Canada; a nut case with an axe -

ISIL doesn't know their names, and neither do they care;

Without even common ideologies they share.

It sure isn't Islam that these idiots fight for,

Nor is it for territory on some foreign shore,

Nor is it for human rights or common decency;

Only thing in common is barbaric lunacy.

ISIL's p.r. makes their war with Syrians and Kurds

Look as if it might be fun for Call of Duty nerds;

Guys who live in mother's basement and do not have friends,

Open to the nihilistic message ISIL sends.

What I do not understand, however, are the girls.

Knowing that these guys are rapists, murderers, and churls;

Holding females in contempt and selling them as slaves,

Why on earth would women choose to join them in their graves?

I've Got An Idea

ISIS - so extreme al-Qaeda's leaders think they're bad -

60 miles outside of Iraq's capital, Baghdad, 

Executed hundreds of unarmed, Iraqi men.

Army has to stand and fight for, if not now, then when?

I have got a great idea...  Let's give the women guns.

When we offer training, choose their daughters not their sons.

If the ISIS forces win it's girls who lose the most;

Highly motivating them to not abandon post.

Arm the female population; teach them how to shoot.

I believe it's likelier our efforts will bear fruit.

We should arm all Muslim women.  That's who we should back;

They're the ones the most at risk...  And not just in Iraq.

#BringBackOurGirls

(Photo/Courtesy of KCCI)

'Bring us back our stolen girls,' Nigerians demand.

They've accepted offers to let others lend a hand;

But the girls have been dispersed, now kept in smaller groups,

Some in other countries - where it's hard to send in troops.

Boko Haram just released a video today;

Shows about a hundred girls and some were forced to say

They embraced their captor's faith...  Rejected education

(Something most of us would do if in their situation.)

Terrorists are saying that they'd like to make a trade.

They'll release 100 girls they kidnapped in the raid

If Nigeria will free some guys they've got in jail...

Pretty bold from men who've got the whole world on their trail.

Dear Republican Women... Really?

How is it Republicans aren't overwhelmed with shame;

Treating people as if they're a pawn; their lives a game?

Standing up for corporations, 1 percenters, banks,

Old, white men (I'm shocked when I see women in their ranks.)

Things that women care about, Republicans oppose;

Health-care clinics, food assistance - first things that they close.

Fighting to block overtime reforms, a living wage,

Everything the President proposes at this stage.

Since they're the majority in Congress and they might

Even win the Senate, come the next election night,

While the rich get richer and the poor folk fall behind,

President Obama could be in a nasty bind.

If the Democrats should lose a few more Senate seats

(Which they could, according to the word out on the streets)

Our divided government divides a whole lot more

If we let Republicans control the Senate Floor.

Across the Pond - Rape

Photo/GlobalPost.com

Think rape victims have it bad in these United States;

Stuck with politicians being stupid in debates?

Women in the Middle East and northern Africa,

India and, worst of all, the ones in Syria

Raped as part of strategy in someone's gruesome war

Or, if they report a rape, they're treated like a whore.

Even those who wear a veil - are covered head to toe -

Know that there are places in their countries they can't go,

Like a busy city street or movies with a friend.

Even if you don't get raped they're pinching your rear end.

Treated like an object; just a way to scratch an itch,

Think it's time that women over there began to bitch.

Veils have not protected them from violence and rape.

Women have to organize and help their nations shape

Future legislation guaranteeing rights for girls...

Women need their laws to start protecting them from churls.