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The lives of women ....

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Indigo8 Mon 17-Feb-25 11:30:32

I was reminded of John Warboys the black cab rapist.

It took years for him to be arrested. I wonder how many women had reported him to the taxi company or the police before anything was done and how many women were attacked but decided not to report the matter.

JaneJudge Mon 17-Feb-25 10:57:10

and the irony is the youtube video was followed by a weightloss advert angry

AGAA4 Mon 17-Feb-25 10:52:21

Brilliant poem. Everything she said was true.

Luckygirl3 Mon 17-Feb-25 10:39:44

As the mother of 3 daughters this really resonates with me.

Indigo8 Mon 17-Feb-25 10:36:48

Thank you Luckygirl13

Luckygirl3 Mon 17-Feb-25 10:36:14

I think it is very telling and I will be looking up more of her poetry.

BlueBelle Mon 17-Feb-25 10:33:44

How on earth did she remember all that and at speed too
Excellent

Luckygirl3 Mon 17-Feb-25 10:27:47

Interestingly the youtube version is unexpurgated - I had not realised the facebook one had been sanitised.

Luckygirl3 Mon 17-Feb-25 10:25:00

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOcNK-4xr34

Indigo8 - here is a youtube link of the poet Cailtlyn O'Ryan reading the same poem.

Indigo8 Mon 17-Feb-25 10:13:58

I don't do Facebook so I can't read the poem. But I am in favour of anything that highlights the fact that women are still a long way from being treated equally as fellow human beings and not as a second class sub-species.

Luckygirl3 Mon 17-Feb-25 10:06:00

www.facebook.com/share/r/1DxgW5aDwg/

Brilliant poem which encapsulates the threat under which all women live. Such a clever piece of writing, so true and so sad.