To be a Male Transnational Feminist

 

Low frames, high aims… What should you do as a main...Character in a narrative that you cannot even detain?Or deport, abort, no chains holding you backFrom a track and path you’ve had the privilege to beget.Your track stays focused, one eye open, no other substanceYour mouth stays shut cuz guilt stays on your conscienceYour Y chromosomes sayin that you’re destined for greatnessHer X chromosomes telling her she better stick to basics.The story gets deeper when look further out of the stasisThe United States aint great looking outside of its nationsWars going on that we been perpetuateNot only through votes but through things we don’t even sayMoreso deciding on who gets that meal today.Moreso on thinking on whose lives we are regarding on the news todayBombs dropped, but we can’t lend a hand for aidYet we want a time stop when life's events don’t go our way...Not looking past our own narrative frames…Take a stock of all the livesPutting in overtimeConditions unjustified,Voices we have nullifiedCulture essentially destabilizedYet we still won’t bendCan’t attend to global warming when immense poverty won’t even mend.Our lives revolved each other, but our minds stuck in the gutterWe wondering where we went wrong, our idleness causes them to suffer.You say:“I don’t want to be a savior, I won’t make no pleas, But the moment I start trying to save, xmy ears will start to fucking bleed; With all the pro-justice warriors chasing clout, Twisting and rewording things that come out my mouth”Yet I implore you to get perspective and change your distance,The only thing you need to do is take stock and listen…It’s never asked for you to drop your life and be a villain tooBeing a transnational thinker only needs you to look outside of youBeing Transnational Feminists requires you to consider vast and nuanced points of view.That’s two rules so far, that you got to do...As a male deconstructing the systems that have long benefited you.

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