GOOD LITTLE GIRLS, THEY NEVER SHOW IT

There’s something about a woman’s strength that just seems so…

Unfair.

Ok I was thinking more along the lines of ‘unnatural’ but I didn’t want to imply that women were weak.

Because we aren’t.

Sure.

I mean, every time I’m about to do something physically painful, I just think:

“This can’t be worse than going through labor.”

But it’s more than just the physical pain.

The thought of dying is in there somewhere.

The thought of your baby dying.

And you have to be ok.

I think that’s the price we had to pay.

To be strong.

To compete in a man’s world.

(segue)

A friend once told me (a girl)

That we [women] were lucky

Because we possessed this luxury

The luxury to be weak

We could be weak

And it would be ok

[I even read somewhere that a woman’s tears were her natural defenses against men with raging libidos]

I don’t think it works the same for women.

She'd probably stifle a giggle.

Because no matter how many people say it’s ok for a man to be weak,

He just can’t.

Lest he want to be called a girl.

[I suppose in that sense, to be a ‘girl’ is considered degrading]

Labeled all sorts of crazy

Thinking PMS isn't really real, it was just one of those things

Girls do.

To get attention.

And I guess that’s why we [women] self-fulfilled this prophecy

And believed we were degrading

But instead of surrendering

We exaggerated the opposite

[Perhaps it was that innate drama queen in us which prompted it]

So we put on that brave face

Stepped out of the home

Chased that paper

Made that cheddar

And still decided to go home to make dinner

Because we wanted to 1-up what being a woman meant to people

To other people

Because we wanted to believe that we could do whatever we wanted

That we could leave

That we weren’t weak

And we wanted to secure our own selves

Our own hopes

And our own dreams

And find that those were all good things

Because victory and freedom and beating the odds never tasted so sweet

Though sometimes I feel

Fighting back tears are unnecessary battles

But I [we] did this

Now they expect us to be strong ALL THE TIME

To “take it like a man”

When all we wanted to do…

Was be a girl

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