Showing posts with label Prejudice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prejudice. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Beyond The Pale (October 26, 2016) Inbox x

How can you
Be objective
In judging me?

When you don't know
Who I am
Or the experience
I have lived.

And yet
You sit
In absolute judgement
Condemning me
On sight
Alone.

Having never uttered
A single word
To you.

Tell me
Where is
Your impartiality?

To you
I am 
An offending piece
Of human flesh
That's condemned
To Hell.

Why?

For challenging
Your notion
On what gender
And sexuality
Means.

In defiling
What the "Holy Book" says
Is acceptable
For society.

Thing is
I don't believe
In this Book.

Or those
Who wrote it.

Sad part is
Your very actions
Goes against
The holy Book
Itself.

Therisa © 2016

Author's note: Its interesting, how it's those, who protested the loudest, are the ones, who are guilty of the crime, they claim others are committing against them.And for the record, I have experience this reaction, several times, from total strangers, re-inforcing my feelings, for not following one of the three major religions.

Saturday, 16 April 2016

No Trannies Allowed (April 16, 2016)

Is humanity
So shallow?

We need to make
Snap judgements
About a person's  gender
Without knowing them?

A question
I ask you
As a member
Of the cis-world.

Knowing
From shared experiences
Among the trans-community
There are places
We can't go.

Even though
By-laws and laws
Prohibit this action
To little avail.

As if
Our very presence
Is viewed
By you
As lepers.

By driving away
Any possible consumer
From your establishment
(Yeah right).

Our money
Toxic
Beyond comprehension
Burning holes
Through your cash registers.

Marking
Your transphobic
Bigotry
In its ugliest glory.

Therisa © 2016

Author's note: The following links are, to articles, about stores/shops, who have openly displayed a transphobic attitude, to possible transgender client: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/transgender-bride-files-human-rights-complaint-1.1366868

Personally, I strongly dislike the word, "trannie", as it refers to a trans-person, in paregoric way, and has its roots, in the porn industry. 

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