<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[shattersnipe: malcontent &amp; rainbows]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[fozmeadows]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/author/fozmeadows/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Angry Women Are]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>So, in keeping with the feminist themes of my previous two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flarf_poetry">flarf poems</a> (<a href="https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/is-she-a-whore/">Is She A Whore?</a> and <a href="https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/women-cant-write/">Women Can&#8217;t Write</a>), here is another. This one was inspired by <a href="http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/675153.html">Catherynne M. Valente&#8217;s excellent post on the Christopher Priest scandal</a>, wherein she points out that women are not generally allowed to get as angry as men without suffering worse social consequences.</p>
<p><strong>Angry Women Are</strong></p>
<p>What to do when a woman is angry?<br />
More than anything, it&#8217;s time that we answer.<br />
Women usually get the message<br />
that anger is unpleasant and unfeminine.<br />
(Women are often ashamed.)</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></p>
<p>The angry women<br />
are sitting in Encorpera cubicles across the nation,<br />
seething with rage<br />
that following feminist directives has turned them<br />
into control freaks, looking for an alpha male.<br />
(Anger is unacceptable.)</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></p>
<p>Angry women screech about equality,<br />
and ensure it is only you<br />
who may one day be drafted.<br />
(Anger hurts a female candidate.)</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></p>
<p>An angry woman, a she-monster melding<br />
images of Medea, the Furies, harpies – see,<br />
other women hate her. They see her as a threat,<br />
a great big husband-stealing threat<br />
in a semi-permanent state of panic.<br />
(She is rarely welcomed.)</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></p>
<p>Angry women are angry.<br />
Since when were artists,<br />
especially female artists, required<br />
to prostrate themselves and allow<br />
people to verbally ejaculate on them?<br />
(Don&#8217;t be angry.)</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></p>
<p>Why do women feel so angry?<br />
Angry women are powerful women.<br />
Angry women are sharpenin&#8217; their knives.<br />
Welcome to the age of female rage.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></p>
<p>Angry women are right here and<br />
we&#8217;re not going anywhere.</p>
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