They stop laughing and her daughter looks up. “I have something to say to you, and I want you to hear it,” she says. But she realizes that if she were to abandon her daughter at that moment by simply walking away and keeping silent, her daughter may internalize the posture of being subservient for the rest of her life. Seeing her daughter kneel at the men’s feet while they are laughing at her subordinate posture pierces through the mother’s heart.
The mother watches her daughter’s expression fall. The men stop and one says to the other, while peering down at the girl, “Now that’s how I like to see a woman – on her knees.” The other man laughs. She is too focused on her task in getting the boxes of toothpaste lined up evenly. She is about to walk to her daughter and greet her when she notices two middle-aged men walking toward her daughter. She spots her kneeling on the floor in the toothpaste section, stocking the bottom shelf. “Women will starve in silence until new stories are created which confer on them the power of naming themselves.” Ī mother drives to pick up her fourteen year old daughter who works at a local drugstore. Preached at Kingston Road United Church by the Rev.
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