(Single/Vent Shot) Pidge - Sexism

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As a young child, my mother told me I could be anything.

A doctor, a lawyer, even a mother if I wanted to bear children.

But, like my brother, I wanted to be a space explorer. I wanted to join him in space, and be in the stars with him.

I was ten when I was told that I was supposed to be a housemaid, it was my role as a women.

I was eleven when I began to work my ass off to try and get my grades up to be in the same school as my brother. But when I snapped at people from stress, they said, "woah, calm down, I didn't know you were on your period."

I was twelve when my friend first got her period, and all the boys made fun of her when she stood up from her school chair and there was a small smear of blood on her seat.

I was thirteen when my friend Hunk was treated respectfully by his peers, but when I spoke up any time, they ignored me or made comments.

I was thirteen when my brother went missing.

I was fourteen when I began dressing as Pidge instead of dressing as Katie. But something wasn't right.

Instead of men staring me down as I walked down the garrison halls, I was eyed down by attractive girls in their orange uniforms, whispering and blushing as they talked about me.

My thigh was groped by a girl during lunch hour who claimed 'my uniform made my gorgeous eyes pop" and that she would "love to have the privilege of undressing me."

I smacked her hand away and told we to leave me alone, and she stormed away after calling me stuck up.

I was called a girl by choosing to wear a pink nightshirt by my roommate. When I reported him free several more incidents of this, he cursed me out and yelled it was all a joke.

And all these things made me understand something that made me almost as upset than loosing my family:

Sexism has no gender, it is just more heard from and targeted at women.

More women may get harassed, but men can be too.

It doesn't have a gender. Being objectified does not have a gender.

The beautiful girls who's long hair slides down their chests and curls at the ends.

The handsome men who are short and chunky, rather than tall and full of muscle.

The beautiful girls with the short hair and attractions to women.

The handsome men with long hair and attractions to men.

Everyone is a target of objectification.. Men are just far more afraid to be open about their experiences.

(A/N)
HI YES IM SORRY FOR THIS I NEEDED TO VENT
CAUSE I SAW ON INSTA A POST ABOUT HOW MEN CANT BE OBJECTIFIED AND I NEEDED THIS KK??
THANKS
ALSO PLS REQUEST SHIPS/CHARACTERS AND SCENES FOR ME THANK
~sweetiepeaches

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