At dVerse Peter is hosting Poetics and has invited us write a poem as witness (to a news event or an event).
dVerse Poets – Poetics – Poetry as Witness

“Misogyny is hostility toward the women who threaten to remove the male status as superior to women.” Jill A. Stoddard
Just Let Her Speak She appeared dressed for the microphone, I even saw her lips move in pantomime, but you voiced her down, wrapping her in shrouds of misogyny, swaddled her in your patriarchal goitre, and gave your words to her lips as you pigeon-chested the throng with your smirk faced denouement, a coda of lament for the poor boys whose groins yearned for possession of skirted public property, how could you possibly listen let alone reflect, you members of parliament erect, she appeared dressed for the microphone, just let her speak. ©Paul Vincent Cannon Note: Misogyny: from the Greek misein (μισειν) hate + gyne (γυνε) woman.