Strange parallels ( a rebuke to Green Party peer Jenny Jones and her politically planned male curfew bill)

I am not

A Wife beater

A Sex offenders

Or a BNP  voter

I am British working class and proud of it

Proud of multi culturalism and tolerant of all

I do not hate any race or sexual preference

So why am I automatically  classed as discriminatory in your words ?



You want me off the streets I ve been off the streets all year except -work - shop - home

 

We are all lonely

We are all bored

We are all uncertain

We all have to much time on 

our hands and too little space to fill it



To speak in Parliament is a privilege

You claim you would nt mind losing your job on your website

That reeks of privilege

The privilege of someone who knows their job is safe

Most folks jobs are nt safe

All futures are uncertain



We are all in shock

Covid has rocked our lives

Into this madness fall two great acts of misjustice

Last year

In america the police murdered a black man

By kneeling on his throat

A shocking act of murder

From those sworn to serve and protect



This year

In Britain a woman murdered by a police officer

Walking home alone

Two great injustices in the middle of a crisis

We are all uncertain

And members of the establishment have let us down

Who is policing the police ?

It feels the people are with camera and demonstrations



But what of us men

Do you think we do nt feel ?

That we inhuman to you by virtue of our birth

What makes someone so bitter and angry with those they do not know? 

because the man you fear is not me



Am I the only one asking what the hell is wrong with the world ?

Where's the hope ?

Where's the trust ?

Where's the community ?

I have the same questions as you





A male curfew , political point to be sure , maybe your just been playful in the house

Making a point about the message to women , don't all sane men want to protect women and children

 

But what are men to you ?

We are not all the same

Just as no two women are alike

The basis of reason is fact

And the fact is if you are afraid

That is not personally my fault



 We have been stuck in for a year

With the highest death toll in Europe

Men dislike showing strong emotion

This does not mean we are unfeeling

No



I know death and know

How it feels for a friend to be murdered

Leaving his daughter without a father

I know how it feels to lose friends to suicide

Your uncaring portrait of us

Makes me wonder have you no

Father

Brother

Male friends  

Are we monsters to you ?

What gives you the right to question my honour ?





We are men

Not monsters

Not toxic

What you call toxic masculinity

Has always been called strength

Strength which has kept this island free for a thousand years

 

Not deplorable

Not in charge at the deepest levels of public policy

Not to blame in a culture that loves apportion blame

We are not privileged

And nor are we always responsible

"I am not my brothers keeper" 



What is woke ?

The Buddha was awakened 

And a man



All men are evil

All men are rapists and murderous

That's a ugly lie

As ugly as any lie

As ugly as any discrimination

 

My mother called my house the United Nations because I did not see the colour and gender of my little friends  at primary school

The world is now more open than ever

I will not carry the blame for past wrongs



There are psychopaths in this world

Some of them wear uniforms

Who's fault is that

Last time I looked it was parliament that made the laws



Armed police ?

Why do we need armed police ?

And what type of person wants to carry a gun to protect the public ?

It rarely seems to stop terrorism

And may be its attractive to the wrong kind of person is that not the right question for Parliment

The one no is asking

So I ll ask it





But not everyone in uniform is Againist the people

To Recognise the human in others

That's the power that stopped the tanks at Tiananmen  square

Who knows what happened to that man

That brave , brave man

But he stands for the power of men to care about their fellow men and women I wish I had his guts



My son is growing up in this world

And does nt need to be labelled as toxic

Nor are the British people on mass racist

 Do not lump all British men in with them

Can nt you see that is unfair ?

Is this not the country of fair play ?

 

We all

Want to be

Free at last

Free at last

Free at last

Just like the just Dr King said

The wise listened

To a man who saw everyone as equal

I had no say in ancient laws written long before my time

and I am tired of been streotyped to suit political whims