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(This resonated with me because we all need each other, although women need men less than they need us. I see it as a cry from the heart to level up already. It's sentimental but I liked the overall message. I also think there needs to be a companion poem to this written from a radfem warrior woman point of view!)
Dear Men...
We miss you.
Deeply.
When women gather together in circles..
we tell stories of how much we long for you. Crave you.
Pray for you to rise and meet us here.
We mourn your missing presence.
In our childhoods.
In the homes we’ve built without you.
In our beds.
We hold hands and beg God to set you free from whatever keeps you from standing at our sides.
Right here.
Here In intimacy.
In integrity.
In wholeness.
In freedom.
The places where you are caught in dishonesty..
shame..
fear..
addiction..
we grieve and rage over.
We see your pain and we see your power.
We miss you.
We love you.
We can’t wait for you to come home
For the men who have..
thank you so much.
Please call your brothers..
start men’s circles..
show them the manuals.
Tell them of what you gave up.
Of your brokenness and acceptance.
Of what it truly means to take up the mantle of protector.
Please.
There aren’t enough fathers..
resources and leaders for men to sit at the feet of.
The women have tried.
We can’t do it.
The restoration must come from within the Masculine.
The Feminine cannot mother grown men into wholeness.
We cannot strap men to our backs and walk.
We tried.
We bow out.
Not gracefully.
But in mournful acceptance nonetheless.
And we will wait for you to burst free from the shackles patriarchy has placed on you.
We pray.
We pray.
We pray.
For the Great Remembrance.~
~Shade Ashani
what is this nonsense?
I stopped reading at we miss you. I’m good I don’t miss men 😁
The same old, but MEN ARE VICTIMS TOO. Go read the handbook!
I think the point is that men need to sort themselves out, we can't mother them forever
Three words: Men. Love. Bitches. They do not have the needed compassion to feel moved by things like this and will only mock you for your naïveté. Try being the bitch and you’ll see how much better they are to you. They’re not helpless little children, they do not even see women as equals, much less people they want advice from or flowery purple prose.
I honestly got “we want to like you but do way better”. They’re not victims. They’re slackers.
I get where this is trying to go but yeah 😐 Got me having mixed feelings
I kinda like it theoretically but emotionally I reject it. It seems like when you feel access compassion it's good for directing it and reminding yourself that they need to level up themselves. I haven't felt the access compassion to men for a while though lol, so emotionally this poem makes me very uncomfortable because being so nice to men reminds me of my pick-me days. This poem reminded me of a black man who converted KKK members towards being more compassionate. I just hope that you don't burn yourself out by giving so much grace where it's not deserved and rarely appreciated