My stomach churns
a yucky feeling overtakes
as I watch people shrugging shoulders
in indifference,
making casual remarks
on #MeToo stories
“Where were they for so long?”
They won survival battles
developed courage
to turn the heat
where it rightfully belongs
after so long….
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I agree! Where is the empathy regardless of when it happened??
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There are vested interests, no empathy.
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Unfortunately
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Right poem at the right time…!!
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Thanks! I read an article yesterday which said ‘there has never been a better time to be a woman’. After so many humiliating exposures? And we dole out Durga and Kali stories in Navratri at the same time. It is more about the depravity of certain men than the vulnerability of women. It is also about power structures – only those who control careers and lives can do this.
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Given the price you have to pay, I cannot imagine someone lying about that…
and I know a small part of the shame having been harassed by an elderly man as a kid…
I just blamed myself.
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The fear of being blamed is a major cause of silence – more so in conservative cultures where a woman is shamed for being drunk or dressed in a particular manner or being in a late night party.
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Someone (who?) lied under oath…that is really yucky!
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Agree. But it is almost the norm.
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A yucky feeling indeed, Reena. May we do better, moving forward.
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Hope so. Thanks!
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