Rachel Wiley - When We Were Kings
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“I am woman, hear me roar,
In numbers too big to ignore,
And I know too much
To go back and pretend,
‘Cause I’ve heard it all before,
And I’ve been down there on the floor,
No one’s ever going to
keep me down again...”
-Helen Reddy 1972
Where is this from? Like is it a movie or book?
Don't Read Me Like This That’s part of the song “I Am Woman,” which was a big hit for Helen Reddy. You can find it on TH-cam.
We are coming for what is ours and we will all be kings one day👏😍😭
This woman is so amazing she gives me reason to fight for who I am
Are you also fat ?
Rollling I am Fluffy yes
Rollling does it fucking matter
Destiny Smothers I have no idea why I was asked even 😂😂😂
Oh Girl, take care, please dont eat too much.
"Now my niece is 8 and skipping pizza day because all of the sudden she's worried if she's thin enough to be a queen."
There's two issues being raised here. First, how women are held to a standard dictated by what men like. Second, how young her niece is when she feels the need to fit that standard. We do our girls no justice by letting them accept a position as goods for men. Let us do better by our women and children.
“A king of the jungle is she.”
Beautiful.
"Your virus of glass" God I love her words almost as much as her voice.
Her delivery is impeccable! Luv this!
"King of the jungle,
Is she.
Now, my niece is eight and skipping pizza day,
Because all of a sudden, she's worried if she's thin enough
To be a Queen."
"swallows the right answers in class so as not to look too smart" this was literally me in third grade wow
Love her, this is on my bucket list. Wish I was brave enough.
GOOSEBUMPS!!! Loved it!
Perfection
Very powerful, i am quaking
I love Rachel so much!!
Beautiful poem!
This was amazing. I loved every line. Thanks for sharing this one
"YOU WILL NOT HAVE HER TOO."
She's serious about that. Be careful.
Gorgeous and powerful poem 🔥♥️
I love her
Holy shit. I wanna share this poem with everyone I know.
Beautiful
Love her
that was beautiful... absolutely fucking beautiful
Rachel will help her niece to be strong and be the perfect lion, I know it. I say this just based off of how every one of her poems makes me feel.
if you're a teacher, don't give positive feedback when a little boy repeats an answer that a girl just made, and don't forget to give positive feedback when a girl corrects a boy.
Woo.... get'm 😮
That's what a bad bitch looks like
Make sure you ladies help train the right warriors... n'we'll take down all the poachers
This literally means nothing.
says a man
@@FattishWonder im not a man.
Please don't eat the patriarchy
I have never wanted to punch a person more.
come here i'll punch you
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, William.
I know right? I want to run her over with my car just so the surgeons can sneak a liposuction into her ER visit.
Your life must be so easy
Where were these women when men were fighting off lions and other beasts of the jungle to defend the caves. When men went off to war to protect our families time and time again. When we were underground in the mines, when we were constructing the cosy buildings you so love, when we were making sure that you had healthy conditions and modern medication so birth was safer and so much more. You were fine with being protected, now we give you the western world, air conditioned work environments, camera equipment, lighting, healthy living conditions, complete freedom of expression and speech, freedom to be obese and stand on a stage expressing your hatred of men who have created the fairest society for women *on Earth* . And this is your response? Zero gratitude. Whats worse is that 3rd wave feminists like this will jump to Islam's defence over ANY criticism despite their EVIL treatment of women. It would be comical if it wasn't so tragic. Also "We Wuz Kangz".
Black Brit With A Clean Room well maybe not all women want to be protected. Did it never occur to you that even hundreds of years ago women also wanted to be able to work. Also what do you mean you’ve created the “fairest society for us”?! Women make a fraction of what men do. Is that fair? And also women haven always just sat around while the men did the work! Back in the Tudor times queens went to battle just like the kings! So you know what? *Equal society my ass!* also if you really want to know what women did in the caves I’ll tell you. Raising your fucking children. Cleaning up after you. Making your food. And maybe, I could be wrong, but just maybe once a woman might have thought. “I wish I could kill an animal.” Because maybe what you consider hard work was just an opportunity for adventure. An opportunity to actually live rather than survive. Women weren’t just given the privilege to do nothing all day. They were forced to sit still, look pretty and do whatever they were told. I bet you also didn’t know that there was a devise that would be used whenever a woman spoke “improperly” to a man and whenever she talked it would cut her tongue and could only remove it when he gave permission. Yet men would abuse wives and not get in trouble. So you know what? Keep telling yourself that women had it easy. but really, they were just trapped in a tower with no doors waiting for a man to save her, because apparently she isn’t allowed to do that herself!
"NOW WE GIVE YOU"?!?! SERIOUSLY?! Women have been beaten and executed and raped and ridiculed and systematically abused for CENTURIES to gain the facsimile of equality we have now. (See the other reply for more of this.) What were you wanting gratitude for - treating women like human beings?! EQUALITY SHOULD NOT BE YOURS TO GIVE. When an EIGHT YEAR OLD child is starving herself because of how she feels she should look the things are still FUCKED UP. Or are you a fan of that too?
Also not every modern day feminist is a 3rd wave feminist who can't see injustice in other situations. Feminism has many subgroups. Learn what you're talking about before you speak.
Daisy Merrett HEAR HEAR!!!
The pay gap narrative is based upon millions of men and millions of women's salaries, seeing that the men earn more and then screaming "Sexism". Variables exist. You have to ask why it's happening. The fact that there are more female nurses than male nurses doesn't instantly equal sexism. Part of it is the fact that women have a higher interest in that occupation. Women *choose* to earn less. You *choose* not to sign up to be an engineer or builder and *choose* instead to work in a non dangerous job in an office more frequently. Women *choose* to take gender studies over sciences and other stem subjects. Women *choose* to work less hours than men on average (Men ask for overtime more). It is illegal to pay people different salaries for the exact same job. The only place that is happening is in Hollywood and a handful of CEO positions where there are some men earning - for example - 480,000 with SOME women in the same role being paid around 405,000 for the same role, *something NO middle class woman is being subjected to!* When women ask for a pay rise and the answer is no, men are more likely to ask what is required to get it whereas women are more likely to just say "ok". I could go on but I'm trying to keep this succinct.
(2/2)The point is that with every passing second as well as the very present, life is the easiest it has EVER been for women. Yet they're more angry than ever. Angry about pay gaps that don't exist and so called evil men despite you being unable to name ONE other place in the world which treats women better than the west....