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SILENCE SCREAMS Poetic commentary on the Feminist
movements' disgraceful abandonment of Sarah Palin
and her daughters. By Neil Brian Goldberg
You marched and yelled and
fought. You took your righteous
causes to the world. You worked and struggled so hard to gain
for all women, the rights they deserved. The right to work in any career
you chose. The right to be equally heard
and equally respected. You fought off entrenched
attitudes, which mocked your intelligence, and
marginalized your creativity, your brilliance, your beauty,
and your courage. Now suddenly, The feminist movement has
fallen silent . . . and the sound of your
silence is a deafening roar. As you turn a blind eye and a
deaf ear to the public mauling of a
decent woman. Not only do you act as if you
don’t notice, But some actually take part
in, or silently enjoy, the on-going, vicious,
distorted, sinister and un-true attacks —the verbal rape—of Sarah
Palin and her daughters. . . . And so, for the moment,
your cause, which was once a beacon of
light and hope, has vanished. Like a place that once brimmed
with devotion and joy, all that you have
accomplished, now appears as a dark, deserted, encrusted temple, inhabited
only by rodents and creeping things, and filled with a profound
silence—screaming – hypocrisy, hypocrites! The next time any woman
speaks about, or claims to be a feminist, ask her if she stood up for
Sarah Palin and her daughters. Not whether she likes Sarah,
or whether or not she can stand her – just – did you stand up for your
sister and your little sisters, while they were brutally
being verbally raped—SILENCE SCREAMS. All rights reserved © 2009
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