Thursday, March 31, 2011

Tasmanian Europa Poets' Gazette No 84, April 2011

False Histories

How many women are revered

for what they were

perceived as doing to

get the masses of

simple-minded girls to vote?

How many historians look closely at what

these philanthropic ladies turned their backs on?

How many of these great ladies formed an

alliance with a political candidate who opposed such things as aged pensions,

reasonable wages and workers’ compensation for the masses?

Was it not the reality that many pious middle-class women wanted to protect their social preserve?

When will man learn not to revere false histories?

© Judy Brumby-Lake

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