Women’s Liberation #1

Ruelha, 
So, I was born Roman Catholic.
And as you guessed, my life was fantastic.
Besides, I lived in Bombay city.
Just like the four generations before me.
My ancestors were always blamed for ruining Indian culture.
English, weird meats, cake and wine, dressing supposedly vulgar.

I was born in a open minded home,
with not many restrictions on where to roam.
Or whom I could befriend. 
I openly introduced all of my boyfriends.
Well true, there were just another two.
But, you get the idea, don't you?

I was born with freedom of speech.
Never made to implore or beseech.
I enjoyed the same rights.
Of my elder brother who sat beside.
We were given equal opportunities. 
I'm grateful I was born in such a community.

All throughout my life I wore,
trendy clothes that never bore.
Skirts, dresses and even hot pants,
probably the size of tiny little ants.
It's not just about speech and clothes. 
It's about respect and freedom, that many oppose.

I was never repressed.
I was never oppressed.
I was never suppressed. 
Only after travelling a lot,
I realized most women are dealt a poor shot.

My freedom, my life was highly coveted.
That's what I've always regretted.
I don't know if I'll ever be able to do.
Anything for some woman, even just a few.
But, I wish someday women are given the respect,
without being viewed as mere sexual objects.
Stupid, inferior beings or just maids and cooks,
only capable, a child to take care of and look.

-RUELHA 
www.ruelha.com 
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This poem is not intended to hurt the sentiments of any person/community/group. I am not a feminist, at least not in the way it has shaped up today. I don’t go around demanding equal pay for certain jobs where men bring in more revenue or insist on period leave. I don’t claim women are superior to men or more believable than men. We are not equal physically/emotionally. We have our sets of weaknesses and strengths and are unique in our own way. But, I feel very strongly about issues such as women’s liberation, respect, rights, education, female infanticide (fortunately sex determination is illegal and a severely punishable offence since many decades), sati (fortunately already abolished by the British), rape, consent etc. I intend to write many more poems pertaining to these issues. This is the first one in the series. I hope you enjoy reading them and I sincerely pray it brings light to pending issues.

49 Comments

    1. Very very blessed….I was born into a home with all the freedoms and rights and opportunities that any woman would ever desire!
      Thank you Preeths 🤗🤗🤗🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩🤗🤗🤗

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  6. You are from generations of rebels. That’s wonderful Good Christians doing your parts to make the world around you a better place. Excellent poem.

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  7. It’s True Rue Men And
    Women Have

    Different

    Strengths

    Cooperation

    More For

    Women

    Naturally

    Through Lower

    Levels of Testosterone

    And Higher Levels

    Of Oxytocin

    That

    Nurturing

    More only Extends

    And of Course Men

    With More Testosterone

    Less Oxytocin Overall to

    Compete For Resources

    And Protect As They

    Are Overall

    Stronger

    This Way

    Our Tools

    We Create Change

    Matriarchal Leaning

    Leading Foraging

    Villages For

    Cooperation

    Where The

    Child is

    Nurtured

    And Valued

    Most For An

    All Hands Effort

    And the Rest of

    Body Parts

    For

    Survival In

    Work of The Day

    And ‘Naked Night’

    Key

    To

    Survival

    With

    Regenerative

    Play in Dance

    And

    Song

    Too

    In

    Short

    Now We

    Have Transformed

    Into Our Tools

    All Our Complex

    Collected CuLTuRaL

    Ways Most

    Folks

    Don’t

    Feel

    Now if They

    Are Coming Going

    Or Even Staying

    Now In

    The

    Dreamtime

    Of Heaven

    Here

    Present

    Within

    Together Free

    Our Ancestors

    Naturally Do

    With

    Their

    Gift of Life

    They (Us) Shall

    Understand

    Each

    Other

    Through

    Naked Love

    Or Tools That

    Cover Nature

    Of

    God

    Naked Us

    Seeing Life

    As Naked Gift Free🎁

    Without the

    Fancy

    Bows

    That

    Tie

    Naked

    God Up

    In And As Nature Us🌲💫

    In Short We Are Evolved

    To Live in

    Mostly

    Naked

    Groups

    Of 150 To

    200 Matriarchal

    Leaning Cooperating

    H o M o G E N o U S

    To Survive AND Thrive

    This Doesn’t

    Work in Large

    Heterogeneous

    Populations

    As

    Ignorance

    Of What

    Human

    Nature

    Is Not The

    Tools We Have

    Become Outside

    Each Other Away

    From

    God

    Nature

    Continues

    To Show

    As One Big SNAFU

    Answer

    Master

    The

    Tool Naked

    Do Not Become

    Erased by It

    As No

    Longer

    God Nature

    In Human Wild

    Loving Free

    In

    Heaven

    On Earth

    With Least

    Harm For All

    Fur Of Wings

    Yes Hehe And

    Mostly Hairless like

    You My Domesticated

    FRiEnD

    So

    Soft

    And Sweet

    Show me Your Teeth!

    Yes Glad You Still Eat Meat! 🥩

    The Dentist

    Said i

    Have The

    Second

    Biggest

    Canine

    Tooth

    On The

    Chart More

    Roast Beast Soon!

    Basically Men Are

    Here To Protect

    Serve Pleasure

    Women The

    Givers Of Life

    So Easy

    To

    Naked

    See Naturally

    Men Who Still

    Do This

    Remain

    Happy

    Servants

    Indeed Bring

    Home The

    Meat Protect And Serve

    The Goddess indeed

    A Lot Of

    Dudes

    Miss

    The

    Stairway to

    Heaven Now

    Almost Always

    Through ‘Goddess’

    Just Another Name

    For God Is Love Now🥧

    Do Note Everything

    Jesus

    Loves

    About

    Life

    Still Standing

    To Support Him

    By Story

    Under Cross

    Mostly Mary’s

    Meanwhile

    Jealous

    Story

    Writers

    Changed

    Mary

    Into

    Unworthy

    And Other

    Women Not

    Even Worthy

    To Speak

    Of

    Spirituality

    And Enter

    The

    Kingdom

    Of Heaven

    Within

    We Must

    Under

    Stand

    The

    Roots
    Of The

    Traditions

    To Sprout
    God Wings

    For All Again

    Furry And Less Free…🌲

    Yes In Some Ways

    At Least

    This

    Is

    Happening Now😁💫

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    1. Yes care and protect and stronger and all that is great and perfect …..as long as women have control of their own thoughts,speech and choices….as long as they get the respect and dignity that another human being deserves. ….I’m sure a good woman will go out of her way to nurture and nourish. I’m not against feminine qualities being associated with women….that’s a strength. I’m against the control and disrespect men exercise superior authority and rule over submissive/repressed women.

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      1. Yes It is Sad
        When A
        Bird’s
        Wings
        Will Be Cut
        Of Course

        i Am

        Only Speaking

        Of Generalities

        As Women Will

        Also Be Greater

        Warriors

        And

        Some

        Men More

        Nurturing

        Than Wives

        God Nature

        Is All The

        Colors

        Of The

        Wind
        And

        More
        That
        Humans

        Do Not Even Breathe💫🙏

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  8. I believe that the day men learn to value, to love themselves and begin to feel adequate, they will no longer feel need to oppress, supress, and control women in order to create an illusion of superiority for themselves.
    When they love themselves, they can love women, instead of targeting them.

    One who feels inferior themselves puts others down. When they put others down, they feel falsely elevated.
    Men who do not know God will continue to feel insecure and often feel hatred toward women due to misplaced anger, frustration, and feelings of insecurity. However, they don’t seem to understand this.

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    1. Absolutely …..you nailed it sister! You echoed my sentiments. I feel men who indulge in such tactics are insecure themselves and just project their own limitations and shortcomings and failures and frustrations and inadequacies over women so they feel superior in comparison to the one they are oppressing and exercising control upon. They control what they can…especially if they are unwilling to change/identify/accept their own failures/traits and fix them….they find an easier route….It’s a vain attempt at creating a false sense of esteem and power and control over their own world..which still requires adjustment but their refusal to accept/see it blinds them to the real problem which is their own insecurity and shortcomings! A confident and strong man does not need to squash on or step on a woman to feel adequate!

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      1. Precisely! Amen. So many men have these unaddressed issues! It is a global plague among many. I’m glad some of us can see through such garbage. How miserable for them. I pray for the day when more men will address and help other men with this stuff.

        In the meantime and always, women and girls should continue to keep their standards high, know their worth, encourage each other, get and apply knowledge.
        Let’s keep God first and follow His guidance. 🙏🏾

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        1. Amen…amen and Amen….
          God’s grace be with those that seek freedom from injustice and suppression. May God grant men the wisdom to love, honor and cherish their wives, mothers, sisters, daughters and all the women entrusted to their care.🙏🏼✝️🙏🏼

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