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#MeToo Movement Absolutely Horrified By Sean Penn Poem

   DailyWire.com

Poetry is tough. Few of even the very best writers can pull off the demanding discipline. So we’re guessing Jeff Spicoli from “Fast Times at Ridgmont High” can’t pull it off.

Sean Penn, the weird-and-getting-weirder actor, now fancies himself a writer. He’s put out a new book titled “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff” about a character who sells septic tanks and kills American pensioners with a mallet in order to offset their large carbon footprint (seriously).

In the epilogue, he writes a poem. Here it is:

Though warrior women
Bravely walk the walk,
Derivatives of disproportion
Draw heinous hypocrites
To their flock.
Where did all the laughs go?
Are you out there, Louis C.K.?
Once crucial conversations
Kept us on our toes;
Was it really in our interest
To trample Charlie Rose?
And what’s with this ‘Me Too’?
This infantilizing term of the day…
Is this a toddler’s crusade?
Reducing rape, slut-shaming, and suffrage to reckless child’s play?
A platform for accusation impunity?
Due process has lost its sheen?
But, f[***] it, what me worry?
I’m a hero,
To Time Magazine!

Defending Rose and C.K., both of whom have been accused of serious sexual misconduct, struck a chord. That — and calling the Me Too movement “infantile” — has enraged feminists and supporters of the movement to empower women.

Social media is aflame with disgust over the poorly written poem.

Penn was charged with felony assault when he was married to pop star Madonna in the late 1980s, but the case ended with Penn pleading guilty to a misdemeanor.

We’re sorry, too, if you’ve actually read Penn’s poem. To clear your poetic palate, here’s a wonderful poem from 1941 called “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins.

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