She, topless when caught

Pleaded she, topless when in street caught: Equal rights with menfolk I’ve or not? I’ve just done what they do, Not more, nary less new, If men do, so do women feel hot. Oh really, wondered policing man, Thoughts in mind bursting wild, hard to pen, Discreet, he kept quiet, So does this shunned poet, Thinking of Poetry Soup’s fermaan. _________________________________ Happenings |23.08.2023| Limerick, humour Poet’s note: In a picturesque French town, a woman faced prosecution for walking through streets topless. In sympathy other women joined her in support. ‘If men can why not we? We too feel hot in this weather.’ They paraded topless with ‘what difference’ scrawled with a marker pen on their skin. This limerick imagines how she would protest when caught topless. Oh really, how the policeman might wonder. This reminds me of my school days. Some girls in our group argued on similar lines (no, not topless). In response boys challenged them to duplicate what all they could do and silenced them. But times are changing now. Fermaan=diktat.