If the night is misogyny, then the dark is misogynistic people, and the stars are those that fight against it without endangering anyone in particular.
Hi guys. This has some kind of themes in it, so hereās your warning. It talks about how women have to be more cautious than men when walking alone, and you guys know what that means. This is, again, inspired by someone I know. The same one who essentially āforcedā me to write Only A Woman. You have been warned!
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Iāll never wear lipstick just to get cat-called by boys,
never wear short skirts and walk home alone.
Iāll never show my shoulders, theyāre distractions; decoys.
Too bad for me, boys distracted by too much skin shown.
Grow up, you boys, and let us wear makeup,
without earning nicknames like ācake-face.ā
Grow up, you boys, close that mouth shut,
let us wear what we want, without having to guard our waists.
Weāre not stupid if we like to dress up.
āWhat about men? How do women have it harder?ā
I donāt win games because of good luck,
see, let me state a point before your misogynyās departure.
Itās nighttime and you walk home alone,
see a stranger behind you, make sure to grab your keys.
Otherwise, what will happen, is theyāll trail you like a drone,
theyāll even steal you without even a āplease.ā
This happens to men too, Iām afraid,
but itās not worse than what happens to women.
They find women weak, so they take out the blade,
then they taunt you for being too fat or too thin.
Youāre either too weak or too strong,
too muscular or stringy,
too short and stubby or tall and long,
too distant or too clingy.
Youāre either not pretty enough,
or the opposite of hot,
or youāre not cute, but rough.
Youāre a toy to be bought.
You have certain hobbies,
youāre a tomboy or girly girl.
Have a certain shape of your body,
it makes them want to hurl.
You canāt speak your mind
without a friend turning on you.
More haters tend to target those so kind,
while the truly evil have only a few.
Youāre either childish or too mature,
way too old or way too young.
Way too tempting, used as a lure,
or way too strict and high-strung.
Men have it hard too, most think of them as robots,
but I state a point that women have some aspects harder.
Itās easy to claim your side has the worst of the storyās plots,
but itās a relentless task to understand the side farther.
Iāll never wear lipstick, just to get cat-called.
Iāll never wear a short skirt or show too much skin,
and I have no intention of āplaying the victimā and getting mauled,
because Iām the one who brought me to this situation Iām in.
Iāll never wear lipstick, but itās not because I donāt want to.
Itās a shame the reason why I wonāt do so,
but āboys are boysā so what can we do?
Theyāre always boys, even old, theyāll never grow.
