A Pet Peeve

A Pet Peeve By: Olivia Rodrigue A smile that reeks desperation A mascaraed eye batted intently Your falsified figures and fancies Undermine others of my generation To think that a woman is only Aesthetically valued and won Is a peeve that’s been maddening many But thought significant only by some They bray at braless feminists Thinking that these are the crazy few Feminism means makeup-less monsters That degrade men-as bitter shrews do How can you laugh at oppression? A word that history knows well When minority rights and reactions Have shaped how we act-what we sell They painted the greats as extremists They called activists nearly insane But the genius among us would not bow To the pressures that society named Therefore I say bring on your follies For the truth of the matter will be revealed Though you peeve me with your ignorant statements The injustice- once hidden -is unsealed