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 fan base 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 fan base 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