Why do people have to ruin good things by shoveling their own expectations down other people’s throats?
For some reason, some people think they’re qualified to give advice —
intimate advice.
They ignore the fact that their own personal lives are burning down around them and, instead, focus on us.
They create people like me —
people who hate their bodies,
people who feel unfit in their own skin,
people who feel as if their own forms are a prison,
people who are shackled by these imaginary gender norms.
I wonder how long it will take for people to realize their own contradictions.
You should keep your own set of values,
but not those values because I don’t agree with them. You shouldn’t hang out with the opposite gender because people will get the wrong idea.
You shouldn’t hang out with the same gender because people will get the wrong idea.
You shouldn’t hang out by yourself because people will get the wrong idea.
You need to hold your head up high,
even though I called you hideous.
That’s too long,
that’s too short.
I don’t understand why you’re crying so much,
I only said the truth
How dare you talk back to me?
No one is free from these shackles, and one of these prisons I know most intimately —the prison of femininity.
What is a girl?
Obeying a warden who will never understand.
Your warden will say things that will go against your very nature and contradict itself regularly.
You should be elegant and delicate.
You should be submissive and understanding.
You should be virtuous and your morals uncompromising.
You can’t wear things that show too much.
What’s wrong with you, why are you such a prude with your clothes?
You can’t leave.
Why are you so passive?
I hate being made into a marionette by a careless toymaker’s hand —
a toymaker that doesn’t realize that the only thing wrong is its own delusions of grandeur. They must fix their own rotten insides before taking a hammer to others.
I’m tired of being stabbed and hit with an amateur’s toymaker’s tools.
I’m more than a flesh puppet to dance on strings of irrelevant opinions.
These foolish beings need to learn that they must stop shattering porcelain dolls and making plushies from steel.
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