It is moral courage <br />makes the woman <br />or man. <br />Conversely, <br />physical courage <br />is quite common. <br /> <br />While he has never had <br />the moral courage <br />to take a stand against <br />'might makes right' itself, <br />the same man, <br />raised never to restrain himself <br />from resorting to force <br />as a first, and only, option, <br />still finds himself <br />hailed a hero <br />in an inversion <br />of moral law. <br /> <br />And the woman <br />with the courage <br />to live outside the confines <br />of the kitchen, <br />the bedroom <br />and <br />the nursery <br />still faces a lingering <br />label of perversion, <br />seen as usurping <br />mman's rightful place <br />at the apex <br />of the pyramid <br />of oppression. <br /> <br />Woman or man, <br />to take a stand <br />outside the boundaries, <br />to color outside the lines <br />of the stick figure confines <br />of the rigid roles prescribed <br />for male and female inmates <br />of capitalist culture's <br />insane asylum <br />runs the risk of committing <br />cultural suicide. <br /> <br />Girly men. <br />FemiNazis. <br />Real men don't cry, <br />have hearts or any emotions, <br />while real women <br />have been defined <br />by only those <br />obvious displays <br />of devotion. <br /> <br />Lonely <br />is the INDIVIDUAL <br />who dares to live as an outlaw <br />outside the ordinary <br />where character insists <br />consistently <br />on the courage <br />to be <br />contrary. <br /> <br /> <br />'It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.' - Mark Twain<br /><br />Vi Ransel<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/desperado-for-henry-david-thoreau/
