What's the scariest book you ever read?..
Some Stephen King book like "Salem's Lot"
or "The Shinning"? For me its Kate Millett's
"Sexual Politics".. Oh, man.. Now THAT
will scare you to death if you're female.

I discovered a man on my favorite chat
who actually believes his sex a
sign of power, of superiority..

WHY am I so startled? Some childish
trust not yet scrubbed off? Or worse
yet some belief, not yet strangled,
in a better world?

See, stupid me, I thought this bill had
been paid, by sufferance, by real people
like Elizabeth Stanton, Carrie Catt and
Martin King.. by entire generations who
ran through those tangled woods emerging
cut and brused.. if at all.

What is it like for HIM? I see him eying
us, his little inferiors who bleed with
the moon, with secret, catlike distaste..
regarding female opinions as slightly
impure then, with calm, God like grace,
granting the form of servant to assume.

Can I, can we, be forced to accept this
inheritance? I don't know..
All I know is that this pejudice, so
strangely without substance, strikes me
like the duelers lucky thrust robing me
of attendant rights and wit.. springs that
tender trap of doubt in the future and
abandons me to stammering.

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