Analysis: What Does It Mean To Be A Woman

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What is gender?
It’s not a choice.
A choice in which you can change in a split second.
What does it mean to be a women or man?
Young minds wonder as they are molded.
Molded as society wants them to be.

A women never falters,
Because she’s always perfect.
If she wishes to stomp in anger,
She is forced to glide like a swan.
She is like a puppet bound by the hands of society,
Forced to bow down at the whim of normalcy.
Her want to free herself from this burden,
Helps her understand what it means to be a woman,
What it means to be equal.

The man gets to be anything he wants to be.
What does that mean to society?
In fact, what does that mean to the man himself?
I don’t dance to the rhythm of any others,
I march to the beat of my own drum.
I’m

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