Sta.sh
When you're a woman, you are told
There are certain roles and positions in this world
That you, as a woman, simply cannot hold.
I first figured this out when I was a child.
It was recess on the playground,
Kindergartners running wild.
I wanted to play on the big jungle gym; all the boys were there.
I didn't want to play with little girls,
They were too soft– putting flowers in their hair.
I ran to play with them, socially naïve,
Their response to my intrusion
Was one I simply could not believe
"You can't play with us, you're not a boy"
Was why I couldn't join in their game,
And up until that point in time,
I thought we were all the same.
And now, in my adolescent years,
I find it quite hard to bear
That we discriminate against people
For what we have going on down there.
As a woman, each day I am told
That there are certain things I cannot do,
Certain roles that I cannot hold.
When I go to school I hear it in the halls,
Corridor to corridor, patriarchy and sexism
Bounce from wall to wall.
I've heard them so many times,
If they were Pokemon,
I'd have caught them all.
But you see, I'm not like the other girls,
Meek, subservient, molded, small.
You know what?
I don't really care for society's roles.
I don't care for them at all.
I have a vagina, it's true.
But that doesn't make me any less than you.
In fact, it doesn't matter what I have down there.
What matters is that I'm a human being,
And that's why you should care.
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The girls didn't want me cause I'm loud and boysish, and the boys didn't want me cuz I'm a chick.
But it's gotten a lot better. In fact, the boy who told me on the playground that I couldn't play with them cuz I was a girl has actually turned into a pretty accepting guy.
I've always had a problem with befriending females, because they don't appreciate my disinterest in "girl" things. Like makeup, fashion, gossip, flirting etc. I grew up on an island. And if you know anything about local islanders, you'd know they LOVE to tan and party and flirt flirt flirt. The young ones anyway. When high school started, i lost a lot of female friends. Guy friends too really. But that was because of the vicious gossip my formal female friends spread about me. XD
I'm 20 now. That stuff is way behind me. but I still have trouble connecting with girls. Not as big a deal now though.
I'm actually really girly when it comes to my looks x.x, I love make up and skinny jeans and heels.. Heh but I love sports and I don't mind getting dirty.
Women and men our different, and I think we as women have our strong points as do men.. I don't mind noticing the differences. However no one should be discriminated for their sex especially if their the most qualified for the position, that also goes for race ect.
This is a good eye opener, a lot of people dont think about this.
There's this guy who's actually inspired all this, and three pieces of artwork that I can't post at the moment. His ideals are so stuck in the stone age; he tried to make an argument to me and my friend (both women) that women and genetically and mentally inferior to men and we shouldn't have rights at all. No joke. That's his stance.
I say if he wants to play the science card, go right ahead. If it weren't for women, there would technically be no man, because we all start out genetically female anyway.
He keeps talking and I keep writing.