Hi, I’m a feminist
A creature incapable of understanding
The basic rules
That have been standing
For thousands of years.
My job, as a woman, is to serve others
Who generally don’t deserve a second of my time
Hi, I’m a feminist
And as a result of my faulty views of equality,
I’m endangering the tranquility of the patriarchy,
And ruining the views of other girls,
Who’d otherwise see their bodies as drive-thrus
For men to stop through
When they get hungry
Hi, I’m a feminist
And i fight for a useless cause
One’s whose purpose is to disservice all the hard working men
In favor of their wordless women
Ripping them of their natural born right
By letting women write
Of what's right and wrong
And stealing their power
Making them sour
When their women no longer cower
Beneath their towering frames
Hi, I’m a feminist
And i fight for the 14.2 million child brides married off annually,
in this culture of insanity
That hears feminism
And gouges out the equality
And highlights superiority
Hi, I’m a feminist
And i’m here for the girls
The girls that are cat-called
And stared down by heavy eyes
Weighed with a look that they despise
And treated like a prize
Because whenever i hear ‘trophy wife’
I can only think of mannequin girls
Leashed with pearls
Showed off to friends and bloodline
Only to be forgotten on a shelf when they’ve lost their shine
And i’m here for every girl
That’s ever heard anyone say
‘You run-throw-kick-or fight like a girl’
Because that’s right
I punch like a girl
And you better start taking notes
Or you’ll fall behind
Hi, I’m a feminist
And i’m here for the boys too
The boys shamed for being ‘too feminine’
Or being a ‘pretty boy’
And i’m here for the boys who’ve been told,
With their eyes blurry,
That they can’t cry
Because its too girly
As if being a ‘girl’ equates
To giggling at dates
And simply seeking a mate
Our fate restricted
By the curves of our birthing hips
And the lightning harbored in our lips
Everyone wanting a sip
Of our electricity in a kiss
That pours and pours and pours until there is nothing left
Because being a girl equates to being used
An idea infused from infancy that weakness
Is of liquid consistency,
Found in the red of our faulty veins
An idea that injects itself into our DNA
One of which I object to
In favor of that blurry eyed boy
Because my sex
Should never be an insult
Hi, i’m a feminist
And I scream where
I was taught silence
Because my lineage determines some of my privilege
And I happened to have pulled the short stick
Hi, i’m a feminist,
A creature incapable of understanding
The basic rules
That have been standing
For thousands of years
Because those rules are outdated
And concentrated on the inferiority associated with women
Who were then obligated to serve men.
Its the 21st century,
And I’m ready to fight for equality
Hollaback Girl
by Mykiah Carrington-Zurita, 10