How Embarrassing

“Girls don’t poop,” my roommate said.

My jaw dropped to the floor.

Wondering what I had been doing all these years behind the bathroom door.

Powdering my nose three times a day I suppose, faucets running keeping the secret 

because a women doing something purely human is indecent.

How embarrassing to be a woman

Tip toeing from class, hidden tampon up her sleeve.

Praying to Tampax your last one didn’t leak.

Or fabricating an excuse so he doesn’t take off your pants.

Because how embarrassing to be a woman

Like a wet vagina is so much worse than semen

And the scent of the source 

is the source of your jokes

Like a vagina is a secret and nobody can know.

We need to organize to equalize despite the difference between our thighs

The difference needs to start with the change between our hearts.

Let’s start with being human and work our way from there

Because girls do poop 

and that shit 

everyone should hear.

Society has taught me that I should be ashamed of being a woman.  I should be ashamed of my feelings. I should be ashamed of the way my body is. Fuck that. Being a woman is great and I am so tired of being told that it's not.