![]() ![]() The love poems written in here don’t fall into the troupe of “women are so beautiful but they don’t know it”, but he did write love poems. I think that overall I need to start seeking out more books that call out bad behaviors. But that’s not how it is and I appreciate lines like that when I see them. There’s this idea in my head that I shouldn’t be congratulating this author for being so frank with his words, this should be common place and not abnormal. It’s scary to me how many men are raising sons to treat women like objects. ![]() ![]() Right now I can think of two men in my life whose sons will be raised aware and one of them hasn’t even had their first kid yet. But I feel like more people need to understand that children learn their behaviors from us. Maybe the lines hit me harder because it’s been an insane month in the US. I wish that more were open to seeing the damage done. To see it written so blatantly, in a poem and that poem talking about the generations before and changing for the future, surprised me. It’s not actually that often that a male author writes about playing a part in the role of sexism, at least so far in my reading experience. ![]()
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