It seems that if you are born a certain gender
There are certain traits that you must surrender
No matter what they are skills musts be learned
Developed and practiced to receive their return
If you are a male should you automatically be able
To measure, saw and nail to build a table
Or to make sure a board is level and straight
To sand, strip, stain and paint
If yo are a woman should you automatically know
How to follow a pattern, cut and sew
Or how to wash, clean and mop
And how to cook, bake and grocery shop
Being a guy should you be into sports
Anything with a ball or competition of all sorts
To anything physical should you be attacked
Brawn over brains is how you attacked it
Being a girl should you be into th arts
Ballet, art, plays and opera a la cart
To anything passive should you be attracted
Brains over brawn is how you attacked it
So, between male and female, stereotyping exist
For century after century, it' s hard to resist
Each gender has it's dominate trait
To those genders each trait dominates
Brawn over brain male dominate
Brain over brawn females relate
Perhaps over time a combination will occur
Or maybe the separation each will prefer
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Author:
Frank J III (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I am not good at wood working. One day I was trying to measure and saw some limber and was having trouble. My wife stated she didn't understand how I was a male and didn't know how to do all these things. The poem is the result of that.
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I read an interesting article in a U.K. newspaper called Daily Mail yesterday about homosexual animals. It recounted two true stories, the first about two retired greyhounds who regularly 'enjoyed one another' and showed no interested in bitches in season. The second was a ram who 'played' with his fellow rams but much to the farmers shagrin would not serve a single yew in season.
So what is it that makes anything an alternative to the norm. Seems most of us are 'straight' by nature, nurture and design but wtf happened to the animals i mentioned.
I'm sure your piece is tongue in cheek. Are you ready for the feminist backlash?
based on a true story - no insults intended
Hello FrankJIII,
A brilliant and thought provoking poem that certainly challenges our assumptions and pre - conceived ideas on gender.
Read my poem on Jane Fonda an actress who has certainly challenged people's assumptions on what Hollywood stars are supposed to be particularly when they are older.
Keep writing FineB
thank you Fine B and I will
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