(1651-1695) Sister Juana Ines was a Nun living in the new world of New Spain and she was a prodigy who wrote feminist poetry instead of marrying. She was frustrated that men wanted loose women but then refused to marry them. She legitimately was the predecessor for Ludacris's beliefs. "We want a lady in the street but a freak in the bed".
You Foolish Men
You foolish men who blame
Women for no reason,
Oblivious that your acts incite
The very faults of your censure
...
With foolish arrogance
you hope to find a Thais
in her court, but a Luctretia
When you've possessed her.
What kind of mind is odder
Than his who mists
A mirror and then complains
that it's not clear
...
No woman wins esteem of you;
The most modest is ungrateful
If she refuses to admit you;
Yet if she does, she's loose.
Which has the great sin when burned
By the same lawless fever;
She who is amorously deceived,
Of he, the sly deceiver?
Or which deserves the sterner blame
Though each will be a sinner:
She who sins for pay,
Or her who pays to win her?
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