Why Women Turn To Feminism by LoveShotEyes, literature
Literature
Why Women Turn To Feminism
Because you do not love us
as we want to love ourselves.
Because of the scarlet letters
you embroider on our chests
as we sleep on yours.
Because you pull the pigtails from puberty
and squeeze mothers and prostitutes
from the girls we really are.
Because Disney fooled us:
we awoke, sweet-sixteen, embittered
with no kiss, no carriage, no prince.
Because the heroines of our youth taught us
the plastic passivity of our sex.
Because we couldn't be factory-made beauty too.
Because we have spent too long courting tears
and making life-rafts of our pillows.
Because we want the power to reject
our presence, our affection - even our
So, if I can get through next week of school alive and if my brain is accounted for I'm absolutely considering starting over and practicing my hand at drawing.
I would like to start this week except I keep thinking I [un]consciously am trying to procrastinate so next week is the official start.... maybe... LoL.. ugh.
Sometimes I look at people's art for long periods of time and say to myself, I should leave a comment. Yet, I never really know what to type, I can't seem to describe what it is that makes me appreciate the piece so much.