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Psst...hey sistah girl...
I see you strutting you stuff
in you daisey dukes & halter top
I see you at those CAR SHOW
"Show-OFFs"
showin' of your ASS-ets
Your high-lighted and bleached tresses,
Your artificial "cat-like" green eyes
(and on other days, blue, gray, hazel-whatever you mood is on that day)
Because your TRUE BROWS are NOT
interesting enough to stand out!
Your "hoochie gear" purchased at
your local FOREVER 21,
Sporting your pseudo-DKNY bag,
and standing 5-feet-3 with your
Stilted platformed feet
all "dolled up like a
cheap fashion show!
I see you parading around with your girlfriends (sisters, I'm talkin' to you too!)
You are all uniformly trampind down
the showoff walkways like runways-
ALL EYES ON YOU!--you are the CENTER of ATTENTION!
Yeah YOU GO GIRL...UMMMMHHHMMM...
Every ca-corder followin' each bouncin' BOOTY
and you gladly and UNdemurely accept
every request by each eager goggle-eyed
male stranger to have a photo taken by
his supped-up import carriage
(most of them probably lied about their ownership anyway)
Suggestively and Seductively
striking a "forever to be remember" AT-Ti-Tude,
you flash your pearlie-whites along with a
Little cleavage, a little leg and whole lot of BOOTY,
trying to please the sea of hormonally charged,
testosterone-pumped crowd!
But sister, you're simply EYE CANDY--
not even good enough to eat!
Sistah, don't get me WRONG,
I ain't JEALOUS, Hmmmm...
Not at all.
Sistah, I ain't playa-hatin'
There ain't PHD in my RHYME,
I'm simply expressin' a little
sumthin' sumthin' to
provoke your MIND...
Don't be mad--
Can't you handle a little criticism
I just don't understand
what you're about.
DO YOU EVEN KNOW?
Do you know what kind of
IMAGES you're CONVEYING
THOUGHTS you're PROVOKING,
and EXPECTATIONS you're IMPOSING
upon your YOUNGER SISTERS?
Shouldn't you be
"ROLE-MODELING" Instead of
"SHOW-MODELING?"
Is this how you define
PINAY PRIDE?
YEAH I'm askin' YOU?
What is PRIDE to YOU?
Being on the cover of some
chesey skin magazine,
all scantily-clad mounted
atop some stranger's atomotive pride & joy?
They say that a picture
says a thousand words,
but do you honestly believe
that the words SLUT,
HOOCHIE, TRAMP, or WHORE
apply to you?
SISTER, I DON'T THINK SO!
Personally, I can
Identify with your steelo..
But I simply don't understand
why we need to
OBJECTIFY & SEXUALIZE
our WOMANHOOD to prove
that we can hang with
the BIG BOYS.
I don't understand why
WE, as PINAY SISTAHs,
should compete
(sometimes violently)
for the kind of attention
fuel by individuals who can't even
respect US!
Pssst...hey sistah girl,
Let me tell you something...
Mayay Angelou once said,
you're a "Woman, Phenomenally---"
Not by how much skin you show or
how many faces you know...
Not by the sexy clothes you wear,
or th ethings you dare...
Because when the day is over,
and the SHOW is done,
YOU see the reflection in the MIRROR
looking back at YOU--
the person you ANSER to!
Just keep this in mind SISTAH:
Only you can clam:
I AM A WOMAN PHENOMENALLY!
But do you know what this
proclamation entails?
It's something earned through
PERSEVERANCE & RESILIENCE
not through
AFFECTATION & OSTENTATION...
So before you can "tat-up" your
lower back with that
Alibata translation for
MALAKAS or MAGANDA,
Check yourself girl
because it shouldn't be reduced
to another accessory on your
body like a pair of earrings.
By: Christine Santos Camarce