<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440699" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Out of Their Comfort Zones They Are Thrown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">People are too accepting, <br>Of their learned and enforced perceptions.<br>Envisoned with fixed images in their minds.<br>Like men aren't expected to cook or do chores.<br>Or women who look feminine, <br>Shock others who see them box in rings.<br>Or play basketball with hook shots, <br>To achieve high scores.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men who sing and write, <br>Are expected to be limp of wrist.<br>While those who appear to be 'supermen'<br>Stop traffic when seen, <br>Holding hands to then kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And women who wear lipstick, <br>Are often approached by men...<br>For sex and overnight 'flings'.<br>When they announce they are lesbians...<br>'Homophobics' do not begin, <br>To rejoice and sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People are too accepting, <br>Of their learned and enforced perceptions.<br>When out of their comfort zones they are thrown...<br>Those who are not like them, <br>Are condemned to be sinners! <br>As if a wholesomeness can not be lived...<br>Unless pretensions are embellished, <br>And mentioned to impress...<br>Over again and again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a 'normalcy' perceived...<br>That does not threaten what is believed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440699" data-title="Out of Their Comfort Zones They Are Thrown de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="People are too accepting, Of their learned and enforced perceptions. Envisoned with fixed images in their minds. Like men aren't expected to cook or do chores. Or women who look feminine, Shock others who see them box in rings. Or play basketbal..."></div> </div> </div>

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