This Girl Has Guts

This girl has guts, working here

serving beer to patrons

who have no respect for dignity.



Is it a sin to work in a bar?

Here, every man thinks you are a whore.

They make passes at me



they put hands on my bottom

or around my waist, with those foolhardy eyes

and kiddish smiles they swear to take me to the moon.



I endure all to please my employer

and have my pay, i have no designs

to act substitute to any man`s wife.

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Karyn Indursky's picture

You have to have more than guts to take such treatment from men. Day after day, they stare at our chests, touch our hands a moment too long, roam their eyes everywhere as long as it's not up to our faces, make sexual suggestions whether they're drunk or not, yell things out their windows, whistle, and all these things because to them we are not women. To them, we are nothing more than sexual objects put forth on this Earth by God to please them, serve them, bow down to them, care for them, heal them, nurture them, respect and obey them, stimulate them, arouse them, reward them, and it always just about them or so it seems most of the time. The years on the calendars may have changes, but most of the treatment received from men hasn't. We may have more rights now, but it doesn't stop the sexual harassment, awkward moments, disrespect, attitude problems, lack of concern, etc. There are a few good men out there, but they get lost to us passing them by as we set out to avoid more sexual mistreatment. I know not how to judge a good man from the rest when all I seem to know of is men seeking their sexual wants, needs, desires, cravings. All men seem to be the same once you have aroused them and have them putty in your hands to mold for a night, but after the night all is lost because all they want from you from that night forward is sex. It seems like no matter what we say or do or how long we wait it matters not to them because once they know they turn us on or have us going all they care about is landing themselves a night or two or more of sex. To these men we remain nothing more than sexual objects.