Severed Silence

Cookie Cutter

To be the same around everybody,
to treat every person and plant and animal the exact same,
that's the stone cold definition of equality.

To treat chinese and African American and white people the exact same

To treat women and men the same

To create a vice, a mold to which we place every person and determine the basic needs of all of us, compiled into one shape

But the problem is that people don't all fit into the same mold

And we try to cram our bodies into this shape, create a cookie cutter, a stack of all the things we should have and all the things we should need

We all have an opinion, we all have brains, we are all capable of making our own decisions and regretting our own mistakes

We all deserve the respect that we expect but that varies from person to person, from relationship to relationship,

from conversation to conversation

Thats what feminism and racism has been centered around

But we all get so obsessed with this cookie cutter that we forget that the needs do not compile into one shape

We should all be able to do the same things and have the same rights

But that doesn't apply to needs

We all have different expectations, different values, different needs

We all expect people to act a certain way around us wether we think we deserve it or we need respect or we need humor

You're not going to talk to your grandfather the same way you talk to your best friend

And thats what feminism is morphing into

An expectation that we all have the same needs,
that we should talk to everybody the same but we forget that people expect different things, they need different things. This is what our feminism is morphing into, creating a cookie cutter

A man opens the door for women to be kind not to be sexist

He believes thats what you expect and so thats what he gives, praying that hes reacting and acting and speaking the right way

Why should we make people feel bad for treating us differently?

We are all different, we all have different expectations

Different levels of respect that are expected of us and to us

So making people feel bad about treating you different isnt the solution

Because we're all different