Published by: Daniel Joshua Madrid
Date Published: April 2, 2024
Time Published: 9:44 AM
Category: Prose
Theme: Living with this stereotype that was made by men
You don’t know what it’s like. You don’t know anything.
You don’t know that to have everything I want, I have to behave. I have to be prim and proper. I have to be that obedient little girl that everyone expected me to be. I have to scream and shout, begging everyone to listen and understand for once. I have to be extraordinary just so my intelligence can be seen. I have to always smile and nod because people will hate me the moment I disagree.
I have to always be seen as someone who knows nothing but love and love only because that’s what only women are fit for. And, oh, you don’t know how much it makes me sick to my core.
I’m not allowed to fail; once I do then the whole world will turn its back on me. I can only react, but not overreact. I can only shed a tear and am not allowed to whine. I can’t dream big for myself because I will likely end up as a wife who serves her husband and children, just like any woman does.
So, tell me, what do you know about being a woman when you don’t even live as one?
You don’t get to tell me what to do. You can't force me to be prim and proper to be qualified as a pure and perfect girl. You don't get to order me around, expecting that I'll obey you. You don't get to tell me to be extraordinary for you to see my intelligence. You will hear and understand what I'm going to say without needing to scream at the top of my lungs. You will accept that I have an opinion of my own. You will realize that I'm not only fit to love and be loved. I can do whatever a man can do. I can be more than that girl that you've formed in your mind. So stop acting like a knight in shining armor who’s saving a damsel in distress, because I assure you, I can fight that dragon without any help from a man.
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