I want to scream
I want to slap every man
That has ever tried to make me feel less than
Oh women do it too
And I've also wanted to slap them
But men
Men...
Men expect it
Men expect your lowliness and submission
Your self-denial
Your self-betrayal
Men don't like an "unruly woman"
How dare she
Challenge what he says
Be smarter than him
Funnier than him
Kinder and better liked
How dare she
Reap the benefits of her own kindness and care
And not allow herself to be a doormat for others
How
Dare
She
Removing men from your life makes the contrast starker
The image clearer
It becomes obvious
Because of how free and kind and loving your life becomes
When men enter
It's like bringing a cold wind into a warm, sunny room
And dimming the light
Causing you to close doors and shutter windows
Because suddenly you feel unsafe
When you didn’t before
Emotionally, mentally, psychologically, spiritually
Physically, sexually
Men's entitlement over others
Suffocates and burdens
While they make excuses for themselves and don't care to think of reciprocity
Don't care to think
Don't care to feel
Don't care to empathize
Because they couldn't possibly put themselves in other people's shoes
They could never imagine being someone else
Because they automatically see themselves as better and smarter
They don't think,
"Thank god I was born a man"
They assume...
Maybe that's their biggest flaw
That they assume
That they just see things clearer
That they just are
Smarter, better, faster, stronger
Funnier
Just like a narcissist
Who can't possibly grasp
That their actions have consequences
That the way people protect themselves against them
Is directly related to how they are treated
Men can't see
The realities they create around them
Because they can't admit to their own subjectivity
Their own bias
Their own distortions
They must believe
That their experience is the "objective" experience
And everyone else is "hysterical" in comparison
Dear men,
You're lonely
Because you're assholes
Try being better humans
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