Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist Kind
Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind
(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)
STOP: ARREST ALL GIRLS
- standing with legs apart on street-corners
- sitting with knees exposed on bar stools
- lolling with or without protruding bosoms at traffic lights or bus-stops
- swaying hips on high stilts on zebra crossings
- strolling with transparent bikinis on beaches
- reclining one eye shut and jutting exposed legs on airplane aisles
- climbing with bottoms stretched on mountain faces
- cavorting in up-side-down-T during figure skating championships
- gymnasts tumbling on mattresses in Olympic contests
- Lolitas copying the alphabet with contorted limbs on swinging rings
- getting ready for the shower under spot lights curtain less
- with or without swim suits doing the breast stroke
- behind high counters with low neck-lines
- with un-buttoned uniforms in the armed forces
- press-secretaries with false eye-brows and mascara on eyelashes
- showing off sets of false teeth under aesthetically shaped noses
- after school giggling and disturbing the peace as they pass you
- including police women with condescendingly beautiful looks
- and wives who open and slam windows while you pass under them
YES, ARREST ALL DAMES
- and all women teachers who entice male students with high marks
- y compris grandmothers
- all queens who learn Hindustani from servants for no higher pay
- and shop-assistants who caress your palm with short-change
- APHRO-dites who make you foam at the mouth
- and the three witches made Macbeth fear not none of woman-born
- and Lady Macbeth for inciting her Lord to usurp the crown
- and Juliet for not letting Romeo know before quaffing the potion
- and Gwyneth for turning Tom Boy to entice the lovesick Shakespeare
- and Judy Dench for aiding and abetting the actress
ARREST ALL VAUDEVILLE and CAN-CAN GIRLS
- for throwing up in your face while you let drip Vermouth on your lace
- all models who parade cat-walk side-walks
- y compris those spruced up in cocoons beside husbands at summits
- all women heads of states who rub cheeks to warm starved breasts
- y compris Brezhnev and Krushschev for preferring lips to cheeks
- y compris aboriginal chiefs who tickle noses with spiked lips
- and all sex-starved women who bellow at your bad jokes
ARREST ALL
- bitches mares felines who lick you to leave sticky needle-sharp furs
- she-goats with beards for masquerading as kid-bearing moms
- all mares for braying like donkeys
- all race jockeys for riding bare-back
- all lionesses for throwing up their fore-and-hind legs after a night of…
- all elephants who unfurl and dig trumps looking for nuts in holes
- all crocodiles for looking all one and the same
- all apes for aping humans in the act
ARREST
- all secretaries who stoop to pick up their bosses pencils with mouths
- all sportswomen who roll with pain on the turf without shame
- all rugger-women who tear to shreds their partners shorts in scrums
- all tennis-women who sprawl between sets to earn free thigh massage
- all women cyclists whose hinds swallow up seats
ARREST ALL GIRLS
- riding in the METRO/UNDERGROUND or BUSES during the rush-hour for they can all potentially sue the men who squeeze them all without - YES - wanting or not wanting to every time the trains or buses jog and pull away at every station or through midway change of speed
ARREST ALL CONNIVING GIRLS
- who stoop low in search of dropped coins in super-market queues
- who suck lollipops at bus-stops and railway platforms for exercise
- all damsels in distress on deserted roads and by-lanes
- all toughs who kick-start their motor-cycles over and over again
- all wanton who want-men for being so darned bloody beautiful and giving-off so much un-merited pleasure - just to be looked at - in such a dreary world without relief without hope if not for their cunning cuddles, caressing coaxes, carefree cavorting and courting curses!
ARREST THEM ALL and PUT US ALL IN THE SELF-SAME DEN so that we can continue to be harassed by them SANS END !
(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2017
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2017
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