David Welch Poet Rhyme

The Feminism Filter, Part I

An idea I’ve seen going round
is that the feminism urge
might play a part we don’t suspect,
and not just be a joyless scourge.
That, without feminists knowing,
it’s come to play a vital role,
acting as a giant filter
through the very lies is has sold.

I think it comes down to numbers,
and the trend is simple to see,
hating men and pushing a job
does not lead to many babies.
And every year that it’s put off
the girl’s fertility goes down,
they find themselves at thirty-six,
single and with no kinds around.
Some want them and desperately run
to get themselves a willing guy,
but most of the good ones are wed,
and quality is hard to find.
The internet is littered with
sad videos of such women,
realizing the lies much too late,
unable now to start again.
All because of some bad ideas,
taught to them by shrill activists,
in their teens and early twenties,
too young to recognize bullsh-t.
They did not see through it and chose
to build a family when young,
choosing to see their own pursuits,
now they and their whole line is done.
But those women who saw through it,
weren’t scammed by the ‘empowerment,’
are the ones still having children,
and spending their time teaching them.
And as the decades do roll past
it just becomes a question of who
who will be their standing at last?
The feminist who, at forty-two,
desperately pays for IVF?
Or the mother with four children,
half-shocked she has no grandkids yet?
The feminism filtered out
those foolish enough to believe
that there are more important things
to establishing family.
And the next generation born
will come from those who saw the lie,
better able to resist it
when they grow to live their own lives...

CONCLUDES IN PART II.

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