A thought

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by badboredbitch

by badboredbitch

A thought
Why do we care so much
About one thought
I quite literally
Care
So much
About something nobody
Has yet said about me
Their judgments on
My clothes
The way I walk
How I talk
Even the way I stand
And the types of books I read
Why does it matter so much to me
I ask myself this everyday
Until I realize
I know why
It is because
I am a teenaged female
Raised in a world
Where a mans opinion about my body
Matters more than my own
But then I think
That cannot be it
I don't take their judgement
But truly
Peoples opinions about me
Probably matter more than my own
At least to me
How messed up does a world have to be
To make hundreds of teenage girls
Think that someone else opinion on anything
That they do
Matters more than their own
I get told a lot
That
I dress slutty
I wear
Baggy off the shoulder shirts
With tight pants
And sweatshirts big enough
To cover my whole body
But this
This is not enough for them
They want me
To wear
Sweat pants
Sweatshirts
Baggy clothes
And bras that make it so I don't have breasts
They want me to hide my body more
Than I already do
Because I am a teenage female
Taught by society
That a 50 year old mans opinion
About what I can and cannot
Do with my body
Means more
Than my teenaged Self
The boys want me to
Show my body
My curves
So they can ogle them
The men
Want me to cover up
My body
My curves
To make them happy
And the woman
The twenty something woman
Showing me it's okay
To have a body
That I am proud of
Want me to do what ever the hell I want
With my body
And guess who the hell
I'm gonna listen too
The twenty something woman telling me
To be proud
Of my body
But to remember
That
Their are people
In this world
Who will use what I wear
To justify their wrong doing
And that scares me
Makes me think maybe I should
Listen to the old men
Telling me to cover up
Because I have to fear
The same old men
And young men
Who will ogle
My body if I don't
A reminder to all the girls out there
Wear what ever the hell you want
Be whoever the hell you are
As long as it's not hurting anyone
Don't care about anyone's opinion
If they are going to tell you to change your body for their joy
Don't listen
Good luck
To the powerful