“It was not by premeditated choice, your Honor! Why am I the one being punished,” she screamed as her fists slammed into the little un-sturdy, wooden podium in the center of the courtroom.
She threw herself to the wolves that day when she decided to push the issue of how incompetent the government had been on finding her son’s lousy excuse for a sperm donor. She had kept quiet for years while the child support office had given her excuse after excuse on why they couldn’t find her ex.
“I’m not saying you’re being punished, but did you or did you not lay down with this man? Did you or did you not have a choice in whether or not you wanted to become sexually intimate with this poor excuse for a man,” the judge yelled back in his stern, belittling voice.
For some reason, each time she got thrown under the boulder like the Coyote, he slipped right out from underneath it like the Roadrunner. Each time she hit rock bottom in life from the financial standpoint, he seemed to know it. He seemed to always be one step ahead of her and the government organizations which were supposed to be helping her, but instead, they were playing up to the typical societal view of the whole ordeal and placing the entire shoulder of blame on top of her.
It’s always been the woman’s fault when it comes to any issues involving children. The men escape blame free, especially in cases where the men and women were never married. It was the ultimate crime for a woman—living in the south and having children outside of wedlock. It was ten times worse than becoming a bag lady, snatching toilet paper from the restrooms of chain restaurants, and selling certain bodily services to strangers on the street. Even that crime could be justified in certain cases. The crime of falling prey to love and lust with the wrong person was one that was inexcusable to the numerous Bible thumpers and hypocritical Christians that southern government is overrun with.
And once again, the damaged Coyote is left to struggle alone with no help from the lucky Roadrunner or the corrupt government she was told she could turn to for help, and the cycle will continue. And with each passing, the Coyote will pray that society eventually learns to send the boulder spiraling down onto the Roadrunner rather than herself.
Blogophilia 41.2 Topic: "Not by Premeditated Choice"
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