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one oh one destruction instructions: a man calls a woman Janet Kuypers poem based on her 1997 poem “ a man calls a woman” italicized lines are from a 1976 essay from Bob Lamm 2/8/15 every time a man calls a woman a “fox” he tells her she is to be treated like an animal every time a man calls a woman a “honey” he tells her she is meant to be consumed every time a man calls a woman a “girl” he tells her she can’t think like an adult every time a man calls a woman anything less than woman he tells her who’s the boss so yes, we all know who the boss is, boys you’ve done such a good job of telling us Because every time a man makes a joke about rape or wife-beating he issues a warning to women* and you’ve done such a good job of warning us... Because now it is time to take it all back after the way you’ve treated us                 for millennia Do you think we’ll just sit back and continue to take it? Do you think we don’t know how to use our voices, do you think we don’t know how to get help from our friends, do you think we don’t know how to use our bare hands, or use the court system or use a gun? Like we don’t know how to use our bare hands — because if you want to insult us again by saying we ’fight like a girl’, then let me correct you. We fight like a woman. And we fight dirty.   * the two italicized lines are a quote from Bob Lamm

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