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Inspired by the six words thread...FWR haiku anyone?

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WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 03/02/2022 15:46

(Disclaimer I am extremely amateur at this, and welcome any feedback on errors)

Inspired by the "MN in six words" thread in FWR (annoyingly I can't link as I am on the app) I thought it would be good to have a FWR haiku thread.

Here are my efforts to start us off (I never know whether to capitalise or not, and I also want to use "silenced" but can't work out whether it is 2 or 3 syllables Blush)

Women of Mumsnet
are not witches for burning
We will not submit

Pretend all you want
but men are not women and
biology rules

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ZIGGY7 · 04/02/2022 11:33

Leave children alone
And Repeal the GRA
Men are not women

Cuck00soup · 04/02/2022 12:05

Roses are red, violets are blue.
Call yourself anything, it doesn't make it true.

LilithOfEden · 04/02/2022 12:10

Dear Kier Starmer,
Some think you're a charmer,
You're not that clever,
Speak to a farmer.

That one's a cow,
That one's a bull,
Can you spot the difference?
Or are you that dull?

Women aren't feelings
Or costumes for hire,
When you say different,
We know you're a liar.

Why should we vote
For misogynist hate,
Erasing our language,
For your "no debate"?

We need a leader
Who'll cherish our rights,
Who won't throw our spaces
To rapists in tights.

When will you learn
That women made Labour
Match Girls and Suffragettes
Did you this favour.

We won't forget,
You don't have our trust,
Want re-election?
Our votes are a must.

Say EqA is sacred
All female spaces too
Safety and dignity,
It's not just the loo.

Prisons and sport,
Hospitals, schools,
These are our battlegrounds,
We are not fools.

Attack them, support us,
These are your choices.
Save women's spaces,
Or lose women's voices.

LilithOfEden · 04/02/2022 12:21

Blush @CompleteGinasaur , how kind. I would really like Pam Ayres to declare herself GC, and produce an anthology of poetry celebrating women and the absurdities of genderism.

Waitwhat23 · 04/02/2022 12:23

@LilithOfEden that's brilliant - especially the last verse.

Shortpoet · 04/02/2022 12:26

Literal violence:
Hateful haberdashery,
Pro-women stickers

CompleteGinasaur · 04/02/2022 12:29

@LilithOfEden

Blush *@CompleteGinasaur* , how kind. I would really like Pam Ayres to declare herself GC, and produce an anthology of poetry celebrating women and the absurdities of genderism.
Yes, we need that calibre of incisive political commentator to throw off the shackles and publically commit to the cause. We're going to need all the healthy teeth we can get for this fight, I fear..
Shortpoet · 04/02/2022 12:30

Did you post this tweet?
We’re here to check your thinking,
We are the thought police.

CompleteGinasaur · 04/02/2022 12:35

Who was it said " Men fear Women will laugh at them; Women fear Men will kill them"? Well, they're bloody killing us anyway, so I for one am going to laugh at them as scathingly as I can. And it's such a pleasure to see mockery phrased as killingly as you manage to. Flowers

LilithOfEden · 04/02/2022 12:38

Yes, we need that calibre of incisive political commentator to throw off the shackles and publically commit to the cause. We're going to need all the healthy teeth we can get for this fight, I fear..

Grin She speaks to the masses, and gender theory needs to be pulled down several hundred rungs and held up for the absurdity that it is. I think she can do it, with her usual charm and panache. It's the opposite of academic discourse, that completely off puts the majority or leaves you thinking they must be right because they use big words and concepts you don't understand. Smoke and mirrors for bullshit.

PandorasMailbox · 04/02/2022 12:40

Leave women alone
We are not your human shields
We are human too

CompleteGinasaur · 04/02/2022 12:50

So much - nearly all - of what is wrong with Trans Rights discourse is not just the obvious misogyny but the condescension that drips from and underpins every statement Barley Kelley, I'm right, you're wrong/too stupid to understand the 'science'/wrong side of history, etc. It's why they'll lose when it finally moves beyond the rarified circles that have indulged it up until now. We need all the bullshit-bubble prickers we can get, and Pam would indeed be an excellent choice of Pin-In-Chief!

GroggyLegs · 04/02/2022 13:04

Someone tell my gut
The naked man in my space
Is really a she

WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 04/02/2022 13:08

Does anyone remember the FWR song thread? Mine got deleted but I wonder if it's worth another try at putting it up....

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WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 04/02/2022 13:09

Although I just found some of my limericks from it!

There once was a Wokeland lived in by folk
So strong and so brave, so stunning and woke
Yet songs made them cry
They couldn’t scroll by
The truth that a penis makes you a bloke

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WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 04/02/2022 13:12

These were obviously from the time my brain worked properly!

The best way to show that you are oppressed
Is to be a man and yet wear a dress
It was students at college

Who discovered this knowledge
If you think it’s bollocks, come and confess

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Cuck00soup · 04/02/2022 14:24

I want what she has
Said Harry, wanting to be Sal
No said women. Ends.

Cuck00soup · 04/02/2022 14:47

A Glorious Phenomenon
Must not be discussed
Can't look under the fairy dust

But the Elephant in the Room
Is still there.
And we can see that the Emperor is bare.

Validation is what they seek.
Safeguarding is what we need.
So they lie and deceive,
Gaslight and DARVO
And entitlement shows.

But a few brave witches say no.
And the Clapham Bus riders aren't fools.

Cuck00soup · 04/02/2022 14:50

Bugger that went to soon

Wanted to steal from David Bowie.
^Oh man, look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know.^

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butnobodytoldme · 04/02/2022 16:12

(From another thread title)

Keep prisons single
Men shouldn't rape other men
Men must be kind

LilithOfEden · 04/02/2022 17:32

@Waitwhat23 thank you. It's a very cathartic exercise. And has kept me from the boring stuff I was suppose to be doing today.

@CompleteGinasaur this is for you, you planted the idea in my head with your reference to Pam's teeth!

Ballad Of A Former "Cis Female Trans Ally"

Oh, I wish I'd looked after my rights,
And spotted the dangers that hid,
Behind TRAs
Misogyny lays,
Oh, I wish I'd looked after my rights.

I wish I'd been that much more willin'
To listen to Gender Crit women,
To listen to Posie,
Jo, Kathleen and Rosie,
And not slander them as a villain.

Oh I wish I'd ignored Owen Jones,
When calling GCs homophobes,
A trope he would cry,
When truth socked in his eye,
And science was too much for his lobes.

When I think of the battles I picked,
The two fingers up that I flicked,
At girls stuck in schools,
Where sex ed's taught by fools,
My conscience gets horribly pricked.

My mother, she told me no end,
GC feminism's your friend,
I was young then, and careless,
My space seemed not fair, unless
I shared it, for men I would bend.

Oh, I showed them my liberal cred,
Cared not for scared women, now dead,
Prisons, loos, gave the lot,
To all genders with cocks,
I must have been mad in the head.

If I'd known I was paving the way,
For kids to be told they're not gay,
Stuck on hormones, ruined lives,
Prey to surgeons and their knives,
I'd have thrown that crap trans flag away.

Those women in Her Majesty's care,
Must look at my type with despair,
Rapist women, killers too,
Now are many, once were few,
Prison stats? No good data is there.

How I laughed at my mother's campaignin',
Against "social justice", she was flailin',
But now comes the reckonin'
It's me GC's beckonin'
Oh I wish I'd looked after my rights.

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