25 August 2017 @ 12:12 pm
 
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and I wonder what it says about me
that I feel pretty in a dress,
but powerful in a suit.

If misogyny has been coiled
inside of me for so long,

I forget I will not stand
before an impatient judge

with an Adam's apple, hand grasping
gavel, ready to pound a wooden mark.

Give me a God I can relate to.
Commandments from a voice
both soft and powerful.

Give me one accomplishment of Mary's
that did not involve her vagina.

Give me decisions. A wordless
wardrobe. An opinion-
less dress.

Give me a city where my body
is not public property.

Once, my friend and I got catcalled
on Michigan avenue, and she said
Fuck you, while I said Thank you

like I was trained to.

//Blythe Baird
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cukursēne[info]saccharomyces on August 25th, 2017 - 01:24 pm
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Give me the bad days not blamed on
my gender. Give me the full dollar.
Give me a city where my body
is not public property.

Give me no makeup.
My sister once asked me why boys
look fine without makeup and girls don’t-
it is because no one ever accused them
of not looking good without it.

Give me a God I can relate to,
commandments from a voice
both soft and powerful. Give me
one accomplishment of Mary’s
that did not involve her vagina.

Give me a childhood that pushes
me to change the world, rather than
change myself. Give me decisions.
Give me a wordless wardrobe.
Give me an opinion-less dress.

We are the girls petrified of boys at
business schools, learning from men
who manifested success
by refusing to take no
for an answer.
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