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Watch this YouTube video of the Cutting Room Floor at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09

or see the full 10/07/09 Video at the Palos Park Public Library of the Cutting Room Floor via the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video 11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

Watch this YouTube video 2:35, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

Watch this YouTube video from the 2011 6" x 9" ISBN# book Sexism and Other Stories, live 02/22/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 02/22/11 open mic at the Café Chicago, & her poetry in 2011 books, including this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000).

Scratch the Surface 09/07/09 you don’t have to pull out the Book for Men to know how men degrade “the weaker sex” or even assault women with the English language hey, they can even try to make it sound nice think it’s a compliment to call us a honey a fox, a pumpkin, their cougar, or even a hot chick but if calling us food or animals is too degrading I can be your babe, and I’m still your girl I mean, calling us less than an adult can still degrade us but I get furious when I’m wearing a tank top you know, because it’s hot outside and a semi or a truck honks their horn I mean, do they think honking their horn is a compliment? or are they busy blowing their horn to try to show off their big rig? I thought the Book for Men covered all the bases, even with sex in terms men understand: banging, hammering, nailing, screwing, scoring but I was in a car, and because it was warm I was wearing a tank top (again, the truck driver’s sexual turn on) so I got honked at by a semi driver while sitting in a car, going down the highway and that’s when I heard of one more term for women someone informed me that after their truck horn blares the truck driver will radio ahead to other semis and tell them the color, make and model of a car with a good-looking seat cover wow, a seat cover. thanks. now we’re reduced to good-looking upholstery something you keep around to sit on but we can’t stay pretty after you’ve kept us down for years, before you get something prettier to replace us so as I sit in this car covering myself up whenever we’re near a truck I think about the Book for Men with jokes objectifying women or reminding us of a bush, a slit, a crack, a box, a hole, or a farm implement, like a hoe but I’m telling you, baby doll as thorough as that handbook seems it doesn’t even scratch the surface Copyright © 2009 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.