How the World Sees Women
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Every morning,
A girl somewhere wakes up, rubs her big brown eyes and walks to her mirror
She looks at herself and sees a shell of a person
Whatever she feels on the inside is what she sees on the outside
“I’m fat”
“No one will ever love me”
“I wish I had fuller lips, fuller hair”
She goes off to work or school and watches the boys talk about the girls in sexual manner
She craves and deeply desires their attention,
So she starts to change herself
She changes her body, her image, her friends
She desperately tries to look like the women in music videos
What she doesn’t realize is that you don’t have to dress provocatively to be beautiful
You don’t have to get noticed to be confident
You don’t have to let guys use and abuse you to be desired
She deserves better, but nobody ever told her that.
Nobody ever told her that she is fearfully and wonderfully made
Nobody ever told her to just be herself
She was good enough before she tried to prove herself to the world
Our society preys on women’s insecurities
The media finds ways to point out our flaws and give us temporary solutions,
We are bombarded with makeup and weight loss ads everyday
So, if I could change the world, it is obvious what I would change:
I would change how the world sees women
So that women would be able to change how they see themselves