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Equal Rights

February 1, 2023
By ViperL BRONZE, Lockport, New York
ViperL BRONZE, Lockport, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For someone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." Jer:29:12-13;Jn 15:7,16


Unicorns, rainbows, pink,

I think is what is expected for a girl to like,

Dinosaurs, destruction, blue,

I think is what is expected for a boy to like,

A girl should have manners and curtsy every now and then,

But, again, a boy should stomp ‘round in the mud.

What if a girl wishes to bathe in mud?

What if a boy wishes to wallow in unicorns?

For I am a girl and I know not what I wish, but what I expect.


The author's comments:

Everything is said to be equal among men and woman but every so often a girl will be treated lesser than a boy. I've noticed this in a bunch of different places, but one was in schools. A lot of the times I see that boys get better treatment in sports than girls do. Boys get a bus for their away games and better practice times and conditions. Girls, however, don't have a bus for their away games even though games are usually on separate dates from the boys games. Girls need to get a ride from someone usually for their away games and that makes a lot of the girls unable to go to their games because they can't find a ride like the boys who have a bus. 


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