CELEBRATING MY DAUGHTER FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

My daughter has developed into a remarkable young woman with a talent for political poetry, especially with a feminist twist for free verse or slam poetry. She has taught me so much in her 16 years of life. And so with that I share her view on female stereotypes:

What women should be by stereotype

A women should be proper and tall

Short and small

We should be like doves

In elegance, we are to inspire love.

We are to be uneducated, and to be dull 

But to my ears this is null!

We are to be homemakers and bakers. 

With hips that go on for acres

Good for childbirth I guess….

And we always need to be fully dressed

So we are always stressed about being dressed

And some would say they are blessed

About being under man's rule

But that's so old school

I am not a tool, that's just cruel.

And yes men have majority rule

But I say no, I will not lie low

I will be the tipsy domino

Who will start the revolution 

So this is my solution

We will do what we want

We want to be no servant

We don't want to rule but neither will you

Yes this is taboo

But what if we were all on the same level

I know I sound like the devil

But change is what we needed

This is our natural freedom

So be different  

It will be significant