Poem: She Was Asking For It (Never Again)
By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)
(FIVE-ALARM TRIGGER WARNING: rape and other violence against women, current and historical atrocities, misogyny, racism, antisemitism, genocide, gynocide)
A young woman was raped the other day
Like so many others every day
She was apparently "no angel"
She was a "wild party girl" who "broke all the rules"
What is your first thought, my friends
When you hear this horrible news?
I would hazard a guess you would give a stock answer:
"You know she was asking for it, right?"
I bet you would say the same
About the Rape of the Sabine Women
Upon which Rome's (vain)glory was founded
They were asking for it too, right?
Would you say the same about the millions of women
Who were murdered, tortured, and raped
During the Inquisition and the Burning Times?
They were asking for it too, right?
How about the First Nations women
Who were murdered, tortured, and raped
In the name of Manifest Destiny
They were asking for it too, right?
How about the transatlantic slave trade?
You know the women didn't knock themselves up
Forced to breed more "black ivory" for Master
They were asking for it too, right?
How about the women victims of the Spanish Civil War
Two terrors, Red and White
Two sides of the same evil coin
They were asking for it too, right?
How about the very literal Rape of Nanjing
Mass murder, mass rape, and mass torture
In the name of the Empire of the Rising Sun
They were asking for it too, right?
How about the Jews and countless others
During the Holocaust and otherwise
Half of six million is three million women
They were asking for it too, right?
How about the devil with whom the Allies made a deal
A devil named Joseph Stalin
Whose army raped countless civilian women
They were asking for it too, right?
Revenge for genocide tastes sweet at first
Then leaves a very bitter aftertaste
Pay it forward, its name is Nakba, 1948
They were asking for it too, right?
Rape is the gift that keeps on giving
Cycle of violence, see October 7, 2023
A new day that will live in infamy
#MeToo unless you're a Jew, right?
A taste of the enemy's own medicine
Becomes an overdose in the ruins of Gaza
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
If everyone is asking for it, then who isn't?
Male desecration of the Sacred Feminine
Sure as hell knows no bounds
The banality of evil writ very, very large
All masked by, "they were asking for it"
The Keystone Lie is thus laid waste
And with it, the whole stack of lies
Has now collapsed faster than you can say,
You guessed it: "They were asking for it"
So let me ask you one more time again
About the young woman who was raped
Who was supposedly "no angel"
What is your answer now?
Because if your answer to her now
Is anything other than "NEVER AGAIN!"
With NO asterisks or qualifications
Then you, too, must be "asking for it".
(Mic drop)
ALTERNATE ABRIDGED VERSION:
Replace stanzas 11, 12, and 13 with the following two generic stanzas if one feels it is still too soon to include any references to current/recent events in the Middle East:
Revenge for genocide tastes sweet at first
Then leaves a very bitter aftertaste
Rape is the gift that keeps on giving
They were asking for it too, right?
A taste of the enemy's own medicine
Becomes an overdose in the ruins of war
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
If everyone is asking for it, then who isn't?
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