Call Me Slut

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Hi they call me slut

for the silent screams 

and the width of my ego

for the mom who left early,

and the dad who's sex obsessed.

Hi, they call me slut.

I'm the girl with the invisible thigh gap,

and the girl with the tape measure

and the girl who stares at the belly of models

like Gigi Hadid

I'm the girl who wishes to have a relationship that says'

'GOALS"

in all caps.

Hi, they call me slut.

for the boys who mislead me,

and the boys who misread me,

and the girls who judge me,

and the girls who envy me,

they call me slut.

I'm living in a world where beauty is breast and butts

and collar bones, and 14-inch waists,

and twig size legs and bitch attitudes.

Hi they call me slut

because I have none of that,

because I have a future

a path, a life and a choice,

and because they left there's back in elementary

Hi, they call me slut.

Because they think good girls

are bad girls who want it all

Because they think good girls

are little pure virgins who need to experience sex

in the form of RAPE.

Hi, they call me slut.

And i'm going to be okay...

But no one's going to save a woman rape victim....

because

"She was asking for it."