Role Models

You're suppose to be my role model 
What little girls look up to,
But how can you be
When it seems you give in to what's mainstream 

I've heard your thought process
Seen it roll out your head,
I heard words better left unsaid,
Things a little girl shouldn't hear

And I know how you see women,
I know how we're viewed 
I know we have society to look to
But I wonder late at night 

How you can be a parent
And think it's right,
For girls to be cat called and unwanted flirts 
How you can wonder why we hurt 

Why our anger is painted on our chest 
Why our hearts seem to bleed red,
How can you say you're with us 
And think that way

You can make jokes about women
Judge us on our looks 
Tell us it isn't the inside that matters 
But the covers on our books 

But we can't do that
It's no fun 
To laugh the same way
You do at us,

Now it's a problem
Something to see red
That we're finally having fun 
At YOUR expense

Don't you see the irony 
It's enough to make me laugh,
That you joke about our pain 
And expect us to just remain 

I wonder how I stayed in this broken house 
And grew up to be something else, 
And I don't know if I should be proud 
That I grew up to be not you but myself.