One,
When a funny sexist joke is told, laugh.
Ha. Obviously. Laugh out loud.
Laugh so much
Tears stream down your brown cheeks
Making tracks in the thin, uneven terrain
Of your self-worth
So it solidifies the fact
That you should have no self-worth.
What’s the sense
In the useless sense of self-worth
Some women strut around with anyway?
Two,
Always, and I mean,
ALWAYS Compliment the joke.
And, the one who told the joke.
Surreptitiously slipping
“Women belong in the kitchen”
In a totally unrelated conversation
Takes such clever thinking on a person’s part.
Don’t ever open your mouth
To say a bad word about the beautiful joke.
You don’t want to seem sensitive and intolerant,
Do you? DO YOU?
Three,
Leave your brain cells in a closet.
Without a key.
“Jokes are meant to be taken in a funny way!”
Four,
Don’t try to tell the joke teller
They’re being a sexist asshole.
They WILL question your sensibilities
Because apparently, you didn’t put your brain to see
If it was “worthwhile” doing anything.
And, they WILL reprimand you by asking,
“Wasn’t it simpler just to laugh”.
Five,
Appreciate without question.
Applaud without hesitation.
Laugh without brain function.
And, never ever question them
About how their brain could come up with
Something so pathetically insensitive.
Don’t remind them
They are highly educated people
With the huge responsibility of
Educating the others about equality,
If you aren’t ready to hear the retort
“The highest result of education is tolerance
And you should develop some”.
Don’t tell them you aren’t educated enough
To laugh at the sexist chauvinistic fucking joke.
And, don’t you dare tell them
That every fucking joke,
Any sexist joke,
Is not fucking funny.
WanderingViolet 