Well-Behaved Women
I'm not in any way equating a letter by Coretta Scott King with Janis Joplin's sometimes colorful vocabulary. There's no equivalence between Janis and the words read by She Who Was Warned, But Persisted. But one of the ways that men choose to exert their privilege and power over women, is to subtly or not-so-subtly squelch our speech. Make us feel wrong or stupid for what we say. They don't want us to speak out. We might expose some ugly truths they are trying to conceal. They want to control the narrative. Run the agenda. Be the bosses (of us). They want us to know our place and not make trouble. You know the old saying. . . well behaved women rarely make history.