It has improved, they say….
STEM and female sports
The right to vote - and - dare I say -
A female president?
But we are the weaker gender.
In times of trouble:
We are discounted, rushed away
Gasping, wailing,
To live in ignorance, depend on the serpentine
Who have oppressed us for centuries
Like the stereotype
The sheltered, beautiful blonde
Princess -
Who has never left her tower….
Of inequality,
Injustice
If there have been studies
To prove,
We are intelligent, more so
Than the others,
Why -
Must we struggle to eat, to keep a family alive
To survive in a cold, grey-winter world that has turned its back -
With twenty-two cents less
Than our male counterparts?
I am the weaker gender.
In conversation
They slander and stereotype me,
My kind.
But my eyes burn with passionate flames,
And I vow
To right the wrongs.
Soon,
They will know
we are truly equal
I will stride forwards
Into piercing sunlight of truth
And they will see
Beyond my stature, hair, glowering eyes
To who I truly am beneath the surface
And ashen,
Comprehend-
The creeping disease of stereotype
Across our country
And finally - finally! - give us our rights
For we are female,
We, too, are America .