{"id":9776,"date":"2010-08-15T21:27:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T21:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/08\/just-because-she-was-girl\/"},"modified":"2010-08-15T21:27:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T21:27:02","slug":"just-because-she-was-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/08\/just-because-she-was-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Because She was a Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>When she was born, they frowned and said what a fate,<br>\nWe didn\u2019t want for our son, a girl mate,<br>\nNo ceremony, nothing, just\u2026<br>\nJust because she was a girl!<\/p>\n<p>When she should have played,<br>\nThey levied heavy burdens on her,<br>\nShe washed the dishes and prepared meals,<br>\nNo education, no friends,<br>\nLife was miserable, just\u2026<br>\nJust because she was a girl!<\/p>\n<p>Her teens were not a bed of roses,<br>\nShe had to work, She had to cry,<br>\nAnd at the same time, hear her family\u2019s taunting voices,<br>\nHer brothers enjoyed all shades of life,<br>\nBut she was a victim of our society\u2019s wise.<br>\nShe was a prisoner and for them, evil personified,<br>\nJust because she was a girl!<\/p>\n<p>Alas! 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