Your daughter is not a shield

On the corner of 37th and 5th,

some guy calls me a bitch.

At home, he has a baby girl, just six months.

He doesn't think about her

when he utters the word

and he doesn't think about her

when he asks why Hillary Clinton can't just be more approachable

and he doesn't think about her

when he takes up two seats on the subway,

but when the truth about the Harvey Weinsteins

and the Donald Trumps makes its way across the Internet,

he makes a Facebook post about the sad state of the world

because he "has a daughter,"

forgetting, maybe,

that so many fathers have had daughters

for so many centuries.

It has not stopped them

from calling some other father's daughter

a bitch.

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