Very interesting, it's a good point that poetry is much more honest than an essay, which is restricted by structure.

Activism is such a huge part of my life - my mother was taking me to protests literally when I was still in diapers and I’ve been (what I would call) an active protester all through my life.

I think words are important for the issue - what would convince us of the greater right or wrong of something if we didn’t know anything about it. Words (lectures, news articles, and even mass media) help us understand all sides of an issue so that we can find OUR place in it. But at the same time, if something doesn’t get into the news, it either didn’t happen or it didn’t count, which (in my opinion) is why protests have turned so violent in the last few decades. I mean, look at the suffragettes, they protested for their right to vote for over twenty years and very few of those protests were violent (on their part) I remember reading a book when I was younger about a women back in the twenties who was protesting for the right of women to have abortions and she was arrested and in prison she refused to eat and they actually tied her down and force fed her.

Words are the wives of the actions -Wives are usually the lesser side of a combination, always putting the husbands ahead (very alpha male, if you will) so I think your saying that words don’t mean anything, or add anything to the situation - I might disagree, but this is your perspective - (who are the husbands) I think you should put a question mark at the end of that. This passage is interesting - do you mean that the husbands are the action (meaning more important then the words) and women are the words that cause the action (lesser is more, or more is lesser.) Maybe being very poetical was a bit much for this subject; it could be interpreted both ways. All in all interesting perspective - I write highly charged political debates every now and again and I like to think that they give people a rallying tool, or a reason to stand up for their own convictions. It’s not in the being right or wrong that makes a difference; it’s the idea that ignites the argument.

Juliet.