We are the girls who took ourselves to school dances Stood in the back corner eating stale popcorn Talking **** about the "skinny *******" Whose thigh gaps were the width of my wrist. We are the girls who painted eyeliner beneath our irises like murals And caked foundation onto our cracked porcelain faces Asked to change our My Chemical Romance t-shirts Because they were too edgy Sorry, my pain isn't pretty My teenaged angst isn't attractive enough for you I won't be your success story The one you gave a makeover Just like they did on MTV But even if I'm pretty in pink I will still be pitted up against the popular girls Girls like me don't stand a chance Yet, still Our bodies are made welcome mats for boys Their eyes are invited to look us up and down As if we are livestock or their next meal Women become baseball cards Passed between the clammy fingers of teen boys turned predators The most valuable of us get treated nicely As they violate our bodies The uglier, cheaper we get The more we are verbally attacked Boys turn into men who don't know they are perpetrators The way they get away with this Is by turning our fingers from pointing at them To pointing at each other Patriarchy is very in this season It creates entertainment for men When girls become gladiators against one another Remember, darling In the game of the ancient Romans Someone has to die. The stakes get higher As our names are replaced with numbers to be bid on Is this high school or a horse race? Watch the weakest among us fall prey Can I get $75? I see that hand! The Queen Bee's own friends rip her from the highest seat Plot twist! Can I get $100? Sold! We all fall down together The crowd goes wild. Can you imagine what would happen If we rose together too? We would crash this ****** up system The economy would collapse If we demanded to stand with our sisters Our Muslim, Christian, black, white, Mexican, Asian, gay, straight, queer sisters We could literally stop the world from spinning. Studies show That young, single women Are currently the most potent political force in America This is a call To inject our poison into the veins of this government Overhaul and ignite gasoline And watch this game of setting women on fire Go up in flames.