let me tell you something...

this is my second (not so successful) attempt at slam poetry. 

a little back story to accompany it. i was at a tv taping and won tickets to another taping. the tv taping i won tickets to was sold out so at the time myself and the other 2 girls that won tickets weren't sure if we had won a pair or just a single ticket. when we asked the person who was in charge of giving away the tickets if we could get a pair, he condescendingly asked why we needed  an extra ticket and why we girls just couldn't go alone. when one of the girl tried to explain, he said we should just be happy we got tickets. i didn’t appreciate his tone and wanted to slap him for being an idiot. but I couldn’t because I wanted tickets. so i apologize to my fellow women. and that's what inspired this it should be on tape cause tone and rhythm are important in slam poetry but i'm just not there yet.

let me tell you something.

to men.

let me rephrase that, to all the ‘smug, arrogant, male privileged’ men.

i got something to tell you,

so listen up.

don’t you dare ask me again why you women go the bathroom together,

why you women always travel in groups,

why you women can’t go alone anywhere?

because I’m going to tell you why.

we travel in packs because we live in fear.

we live in fear of being raped when we walk alone at night.

we live in fear of being attacked by men like you.

its how we women have been conditioned to think because of you men who then proceed to laugh at how we travel in pacts.

we women live our entire lives being told not to go anywhere alone because of what could happen.

we women are told from a young age not to draw too much attention to ourselves.

we women have been told to never be alone because there is power in numbers,

that just one of us isn’t strong enough to fend off one of you.

so you see, we never travel alone because of you;

because our mothers have warned us our whole lives about you;

because for some godforsaken reason we were taught to be inferior;

conditioned to think we aren't strong enough, well not anymore.

i could travel alone, but lonesome is such a bore.

i like the security that comes in numbers because i don’t fear in numbers

and until we as a society stop giving our daughters a reason to fear

i will travel however i want with whoever i want, whenever i want and you can’t do a damn thing about it.