Please tell me how I should love myself even after I have been defiled time and time again.
How am I supposed to feel empowered when my worth is reduced too what was given to me between my legs.
The only power I have in this life is being manipulative and I am the one expected to accept blame when I am no longer found fascinating by those who claim to love me.
How can I be expected to feel successful when the only task I am asked to do involve cooking, cleaning, or taking care of children. I am not a perfect essence of housewife and I do not find it my duty to look after others, because I can supply for myself.
Do not shame me into the shadows of a man. You break me down and melt my will to fight for myself to build be into a mold of what you expect me to be.
You cannot tell me I am beautiful then paste pictures of girls with unattainable unnatural beauty on every street across the country.
You cannot play innocent when it is you who has made me into the shell of a human,
It is you who has crushed me
into the ideals of "femininity"
- A letter to society
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