Quit hatin'

Sun, 12/07/2014 - 14:08 -- Maiyaf
We spend our days constantly contemplating the should'ves could'ves and I need to's of our past and future 
Rather than living sporadically in the moment that is happening as I speak. 
With a world that's moving so rapidly it was only a couple hundred years ago that we were discovering gravity when the apple fell from the tree 
But now that I'm mentioning apples and trees lets talk about how these little girls and boys are thinking they're Adam and Eve rushing to hit their life's highest peak before they've even gone to leave for college. 
But who cares about attaining adequate knowledge when instead, I could Twerk
Cause now that's the only way she know how to work 
Since first her daddy told her that's all she worth 
Jumpin man to man, sweetie they're all just like your dad, that only makes it worse. 
But what do you expect when girls without male role models have to look to the media to define their worth 
Beginning when she was little, wanting to be every Disney princess,
Damsel in distress, 
Waiting for a man to save her, 
Until she realized that the real Prince Charming only wanted under her dress. 
And she was the one who got labeled "hot mess"
Simply because she was too scared to say she wasn't ready 
Then they started goin steady
If you even want to call it steady 
All smiles in the hallway 
But behind the curtain was no wizard, no land of oz. 
only empty prayers and suicidal thoughts 
Of a once hopeful girl 
Now a woman too soon beginning to rot 
She used to confidently say "my body is my temple" 
But now, her body's all she got. Craving attention in any way and instead of offering a hand, even other girls still call her a thot because 
"We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are" 
They have girls believing this too
We've got females against feminism,
In all due respect, are you stupid?
How could you follow an idea so erroneous and convoluted
Mind so diluted 
Thinking we have to compete with one another for the attention of a man who's only in it for the booty?
Have you ever stopped to think "why do I do this"
No, but you believe you myst because 
Who gives a shit when you were never taught the difference between love and lust 
Even Judy bloom told us that 
"We must, we must increase our bust" 
For these boys in which we load our trust
Only to have them shoot it back at us
Bullets replaced with words driven by a complex of superiority
But as far as I can see,
Keeping men at the top of this hierarchy has done nothing to benefit me 
So what's it gunna be?
Hate towards each other or unite or a long deserved equality.  
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