"dysfunctions" poems - Hello Poetry

I tried, x ** something I get a lot is, “you’re too young to be a feminist.” too young to be a feminist for you’ve yet to witness a rhyme or reason to believe we lived in a patriarch-fueled society where the erectile dysfunctions of men are paid for by health care but, God forbid a woman seeks birth control to help herself God forbid a woman does anything to help herself a society where women are taught to be happy with what they can get yet to be ashamed when they get it a society where I grew up being taught not to trust a man for he’d hurt me but taught to have the house clean and his dinner on the table when he got home a society where a woman in a tank top and a pair of daisy dukes is a ***** who is asking for it” when the same woman is what’s used to market the male population who are taught that this is the woman they deserve a society where a woman is unworthy and ***** if she isn’t a ****** but a man is a man so long as he is “getting the hoes” a society where women are taught to protect their innocence and their virtue and the society where they are ostracized and ridiculed for not being ready a society where consent is hopped, skipped, and jumped around and the so called “fact” issued by Scott Johnson that says men can’t control their issues a society where a woman’s womb is not her own whether she wants this baby or not I was taught *** was shameful and wrong unless you were married but please, give him a baby and keep him satisfied we glorify teen pregnancies and ignore the accomplishments of women if I’m too young to be a feminist, then it’s quite **** sad I can point out what’s wrong in the world.

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Mar 23, 2014

Mar 23, 2014 at 1:45 PM UTC

jadenhi

"You're Too Young to Be A Feminist" // Slam Poetry Transcript

I tried, x ** something I get a lot is, “you’re too young to be a feminist.” too young to be a feminist for you’ve yet to witness a rhyme or reason to believe we lived in a patriarch-fueled society where the erectile dysfunctions of men are paid for by health care but, God forbid a woman seeks birth control to help herself God forbid a woman does anything to help herself a society where women are taught to be happy with what they can get yet to be ashamed when they get it a society where I grew up being taught not to trust a man for he’d hurt me but taught to have the house clean and his dinner on the table when he got home a society where a woman in a tank top and a pair of daisy dukes is a ***** who is asking for it” when the same woman is what’s used to market the male population who are taught that this is the woman they deserve a society where a woman is unworthy and ***** if she isn’t a ****** but a man is a man so long as he is “getting the hoes” a society where women are taught to protect their innocence and their virtue and the society where they are ostracized and ridiculed for not being ready a society where consent is hopped, skipped, and jumped around and the so called “fact” issued by Scott Johnson that says men can’t control their issues a society where a woman’s womb is not her own whether she wants this baby or not I was taught *** was shameful and wrong unless you were married but please, give him a baby and keep him satisfied we glorify teen pregnancies and ignore the accomplishments of women if I’m too young to be a feminist, then it’s quite **** sad I can point out what’s wrong in the world.