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My boyfriend has some peculiar tastes about me.
Tastes that distance me from myself.
My boyfriend likes it when I look lost.
When I look innocent.
Heâs older than me.
And would never date a woman his age.
Let alone an older one.
He also doensât like tall women.
Or muscular women.
He likes it when I show fragility.
He likes it when I ensure vulnerability.
My boyfriend has some peculiar tastes about me.
Tastes that distance me from myself.
He feels unconfortable with my intelligence
Or when I do something that demands dexterity.
He loves it when I pretend I donât know.
And resort to his opinions.
He likes to feel like heâs my teacher.
And like Iâm his enamored student.
The opposite bothers him.
He finds me sexy
when I look stupid
WIth my mouth half open
And a finger against my lips.
My boyfriend has some peculiar tastes about our relationship.
Tastes that distance me from myself.
He likes me with my armpits shaven
Like I was before puberty.
He likes me without hair on my crotch
Like his 8 year old nieceâs crotch.
At most, a small bush over my clitoris
Like a 13 year oldâs crotch.
My breats should look like an adolescentâs
Or he leaves me for someone else.
My boyfriend has some peculiar tastes about our relationship.
Tastes that distance me from myself.
He feels good about yelling at me.
He feels good about controlling what I can wear.
He likes to pick me up on his lap.
He asks me to call him âdaddyâ.
He finds me sexy when I come to him crawling.
He turns me on my back and spanks me.
He bought me a schoolgirl costume.
He asks me to wear pigtails and suck on a lollipop.
Thatâs exactly how my neighborâs 10 year old
Wears when she goes to school.
Just like it arouses him.
My boyfriend has some peculiar tastes about me.
Tastes that distance me from myself.
His tastes may sound eccentric.
But they are the same as my friendsâ boyfriendsâ.
And my neighborsâ husbandsâ.
The same that appear on TV.
That same on the magazines.
Thatâs the way to win a man over,
We soon find out.
To look like little girls.
Thatâs the way to win a man over.
My boyfriend has some peculiar tastes about me.
Heâs just taken his niece to the park.
- Written by a brazilian black radical feminist, Keli Cristina
translated by Usagi Whispers
originally seen on tumblr via femininityisaprision