It Is A Skirt

Every time I wear a skirt

I get compliments

“Oh, you look so nice today!”

Thanks but no thanks

I promise you

That it took 1/3

Of the effort to put on this skirt

Than it would’ve taken to put on jeans

Why do I look nicer or cuter

When you can see

My knee cap?

(And I haven’t shaved my legs in 2 days, by the way)

I didn’t wear

My pretty coral skirt

For you or your compliments

I wore it for me

Because I felt like it

Because it makes me feel good

I couldn’t care less

How you feel about my apparel

And I’m also ready for war

I walk the halls of my school

Daring an administrator

To comment on my outfit

I am more than prepared

For this fight

Because it needs to happen

It just does

Our school systems

Need to be told that

Their dress codes are

Pro-rape-culture

If a teacher says

That my skirt isn’t “school appropriate”

Because it is “distracting”

My response is ready to go

“Excuse me for wearing

What I feel like wearing

And the boys and men in this building

Can’t handle it

They can see my knee

And my lower leg

How is it my fault if

They’re pervish enough to be turned on by that?

Teach boys not to rape

Don’t teach girls to cover themselves to avoid it

And it may seem extreme

But this is what your rules are implying

My leg being visible

Instead of being hidden by fabric

Should not

Make you uncomfortable

Why are you so offended

By your own anatomy?

Let me wear
What I want to wear

Without sly comments

On how hot I look

Or lectures on how

I broke your stupid dress code”

It is a skirt

A piece of clothing

And I like it

So deal with it

-Jordan xx

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