little brown women
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(04-11-2016, 08:16 AM)billy Wrote:  it so happens i'm living with a little brown woman and she's living with a little white fat bastard. just to give some ballast for the question.

lets say the poem [if you haven't read it it doesn't matter] is racist [which i don't think it is] does or would that make it a bad poem?
who is to say it's about indian women? why not african or central american? or like the little brown woman that owns me; Filipino?
while the site doesn't openly advocate racism, sexism, child porn etc.; do we say the little brown women poem shouldn't be allowed? is it sexist/racist; it seems so to some. to me it's neither. i don't need a university dissertation on racism to know when a poem is just a poem.

discuss and i'm fine with being called out on this post.
I don't think any topics should be off limits for a poet. Nothing wrong with a racist or sexist poem or even a poem by a racist or sexist if it is a good poem.  I didn't think that poem was very good because I thought it was poorly written.  The narrator loves little brown women - over and over throughout the poem but the reader is never really given a reason to care.  Why wouldn't the narrator love little brown women in their many poses?  We may never know (or care).  Also, I thought it a poor use of repetition as it never opened other avenues of understanding or even built through reinforcement but rather just kept beating it into our skulss. 

Why not just say "I love little brown women" and skip the rest?

i don't know.
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little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 08:16 AM
RE: little brown women - by just mercedes - 04-11-2016, 08:27 AM
RE: little brown women - by milo - 04-11-2016, 08:39 AM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 10:17 AM
RE: little brown women - by just mercedes - 04-11-2016, 08:52 AM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 10:04 AM
RE: little brown women - by Weeded - 04-11-2016, 08:56 AM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 10:05 AM
RE: little brown women - by Weeded - 04-11-2016, 10:12 AM
RE: little brown women - by Wjames - 04-11-2016, 09:36 AM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 10:10 AM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 10:11 AM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 10:14 AM
RE: little brown women - by Weeded - 04-11-2016, 10:17 AM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 10:20 AM
RE: little brown women - by Weeded - 04-11-2016, 10:27 AM
RE: little brown women - by shemthepenman - 04-11-2016, 10:18 AM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 10:30 AM
RE: little brown women - by shemthepenman - 04-11-2016, 11:16 AM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 01:01 PM
RE: little brown women - by shemthepenman - 04-12-2016, 03:12 AM
RE: little brown women - by Tiger the Lion - 04-11-2016, 10:39 AM
RE: little brown women - by milo - 04-11-2016, 10:45 AM
RE: little brown women - by ellajam - 04-11-2016, 10:43 AM
RE: little brown women - by dukealien - 04-11-2016, 11:13 AM
RE: little brown women - by Todd - 04-11-2016, 11:53 AM
RE: little brown women - by RiverNotch - 04-11-2016, 12:29 PM
RE: little brown women - by Achebe - 04-11-2016, 01:35 PM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-11-2016, 02:33 PM
RE: little brown women - by ellajam - 04-12-2016, 03:31 AM
RE: little brown women - by shemthepenman - 04-12-2016, 03:45 AM
RE: little brown women - by Leanne - 04-12-2016, 05:11 AM
RE: little brown women - by shemthepenman - 04-12-2016, 07:29 AM
RE: little brown women - by Weeded - 04-12-2016, 06:56 AM
RE: little brown women - by aschueler - 04-12-2016, 07:18 AM
RE: little brown women - by billy - 04-12-2016, 07:44 AM
RE: little brown women - by dtwilliams90 - 04-17-2016, 09:31 AM



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