Feeling Conflicted about the Patriarchy.

Feeling Conflicted About the Patriarchy

by james bezerra

All of my

high-minded

intellectualism

goes out the window

when mini-skirts.

Because we

convinced you -

with our impeccable,

unstoppable,

mass-marketing Capitalism machine -

that your tan bare legs,

smooth and long,

are the same

as freedom,

as expression.

Of course your

ass-tight, nearly sheer

black tights

are the most comfortable thing you own;

we’ve made them that way.

We’ve gotten

two generations of you

laced into

Victoria’s Secret

and we made it hugely expensive.

I recognize how poorly

we’ve treated you

how much we’ve sexualized you

and how much we shame you

for acting how we ask you to.

And yet,

I still love you

in La Perla,

in Agent Provocateur,

or in nothing.

We want

our daughters

to be nuns

and everyone else’s daughters

to be strippers.

I want

to save you

from me

but I realize

even that is a misogyny.

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