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I'm getting awfully tired.

Awfully tired of hearing how much men hate women.

By Jason WillPublished a day ago • 1 min read
I'm getting awfully tired.
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Awfully tired of hearing how men would rather stay quiet than help.

Awfully tired of hearing how men would rather fuck something than have any sort of empathy.

Awfully tired of how it's not all men,

but it is all women.

Awfully tired of hearing reasons to choose the bear.

Awfully tired of realizing how terrible everything is.

Awfully tired of being forced to take hard-to-swallow pills.

Men don't need weapons. Boxers are already holsters.

Homophobia is misogyny. Liking men is womanly and womanly is weak.

They have no idea how it feels. They don't bother to think about it.

They'd watch a woman who needs first aid die, because they think they could get sued for SA.

They believe we're too emotional. But we're not the ones who call for bombs.

They blame women for their lack of self control.

Blame women for being too beautiful,

for being too tempting,

for turning them on,

for simply existing.

I live and breathe and am a threat to myself.

How could they make us so powerless?

They say they are stronger than us.

We endure child birth. We endure pain. We endure life.

And they still blame us when they don't have clean dishes.

When they don't have ironed clothes.

What the fuck is happening

Cornell 7?

What the fuck is happening

What the fuck

What the FUCK

What the fuck.

. . .

I'm awfully tired

of hating myself

for being hated.

I'm awfully tired

of feeling powerless

because of my body.

I'm awfully tired

of wishing I didn't exist

because men do.

. . .

And no, it's not all men.

But it is

every

single

woman.

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    Written by Jason Will