Click Bait

How am I represented

When I have no control?

How is this a platform

When you manipulate my words?

It's not "us versus them"

It's not "girls versus boys"

It's not either or

This isn't a war

Headline constructed

To be as divisive

As fucking possible

And completely detached

From the rest of the desperate

Desperate click-bait article

We are used as fodder

To generate comments

Because the presence of a woman Is apparently reactive

Fuck off

Fuck off

I am sick of being a stick

For all the misogynistic bears you poke

A worm on the hook of the press

Writhing in distress

Your hate is their success

I am merely the red flag

To your fanbase of bulls

I remain powerless

I am sick of being the target

Of the abuse you try to provoke

Headline constructed

To be as divisive

As fucking possible

And completely detached

From the rest of the desperate

Desperate click-bait article

We are used as fodder

To generate comments

Because the presence of a woman

Still causes massive arguments

Fuck off

Fuck off

I am sick of being a stick

For all the misogynistic bears you poke

A worm on the hook of the press

Writhing in distress

Your hate is their success

I am merely the red flag

To your fanbase of bulls

I remain powerless

One day

You will

Write about us

And it won't

Be dismissed

As "virtue signaling"

And the piece won't be designed

With generating comments in mind

It won't be reactive

It won't be a gender war

One day, when I'm represented

I will have control

I will have control

I will have control