Being one of the only 3 girls in a class of opinionated men can have its upsides and downsides
You see
Upside
You're the only one who can give in-site they can't
Downside
You're the only one who has that in-site so it must be wrong
Down side
They don't care
Downside
They don't listen
Downside
I don't feel safe
Downside
My voice doesn't matter
Downside
This feels a lot like drowning in the silence
No wonder they can't hear me if I'm choking on the water they poured down my throat
Downside
everything I say is wrong
Upside
Everything they say is right, so they must be my holy saviour providing such enlightening information that I should worship them for right?
They're opinion should override mine right?
It's not my life it's theirs right?
Downside
Listening to their rants about how men face worse sexism then women
Downside
Facing suspension for punching that kid in the fucking face
Upside
it felt really good to yell at him
To regurgitate all the facts, statistics and numbers of how many women are raped
How many women are dismissed
How many women are discouraged
How even sitting in a grade 12 history class can feel like a war zone if you have a vagina.
Upside
Seeing the look on his face when I asked him how sexism towards men strips the title 'human' away from them
Upside
It felt really good
To be heard
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Slam Poetry
שיריםBasically every chapter is a new slam poem I wrote. Warning, this is about to get sad.
