I grew up on tales of warrior women.
In the first season of Grey’s Anatomy
the doctors are doing surgery on a badly beaten girl.
They found a dick in her stomach.
I wonder if the rapist knew that she had teeth
that she would bite
hard
I wonder if he hard asked her to swallow.
I grew up on tales of warrior women
I recently watched a video where a women said that she was taught
If I guy was making sexually advances
and didn’t seem to understand the word
no
To take his middle finger
to yank back
hard.
So when you are in case and someone is telling you that
you wanted to be raped.
You can point to his finger and ask
Then why would I have done that
I grew up on tales of warrior women
When #YesAllWomen was created
to show the daily abuse
only to be answered with
#NotAllMen
Posted by boys missing the point.
If my story makes you defensive
I can’t help but wonder
What do you have to hide?
I grew up on tales of warrior women
Amy Poehler, Malala Yousafzai, Beyonce, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Just to name a few
I grew up on tales of warrior women
Black Widow and Gamora
who were left off the box.
As if Black Widow wasn’t an
Avenger
and Gamora wasn’t a
Guardian.
Because girls don’t play with action figures and boy don’t play with dolls.
But how would you know?
You don’t even let them try.
I grew up on tales of warrior women.
I grew up not knowing about the glass ceiling
not knowing that chances were I would get raped
not knowing that I’d be paid less
not knowing I would be treated like a piece of meat
not knowing that people would judge me based solely on the fat that
I’m a women
not knowing I would grow up and only then be afraid of the dark.
I grew up on tales of warrior women
And I’ll be damned if I’m not one of them.
