Kylee
I'm a Heartless Bitch because I was born that way. I was born a
female with a brain and an assertive personality. But growing up in an extremely
conservative community, I was encouraged to stifle these qualities as much as
possible and keep my opinions to myself. I emerged into young womanhood
opinionated but quiet, strong but still craving acceptance and validation
because that was what I was taught.
Then last year, as a junior in high school, a chance encounter brought the
"real me" hiding out to the surface. I heard a vapid, shallow girl making
extremely offensive homophobic and snobbish comments for everyone to hear;
although I could tell she was making a lot of people uncomfortable, no one said
anything. Sitting there listening to the awful silence I finally snapped. My
comments were not demure. She ran to the bathroom in tears, called Daddy, and
two weeks later I was expelled.
On my own in a new high school, away from most of the influences I had
grown up with, I quickly evolved into the kind of Heartless Bitch that this
website celebrates. I wear what I like, do what I feel I should do, and say
whatever I want to say. I don't rely on a man's, or anyone's for that matter,
opinion or society's social pressures to make my choices for me. Not everybody
there likes me, but they do respect me.
There is an extremely palpable difference in the way people treat me now,
and it has led me to realize that everything important in a modern person's life
is her or his own responsibility. Irritated by the expectations that are
pandered to you because of your gender? stand up for yourself! Want people to
take you seriously? Take responsibility for yourself instead of blaming other
people for your problems. Don't like the way your significant other treats you?
LEAVE THEM.
Life is what you make it and I no longer have any patience or sympathy
for the manipulative, the weak, or the ignorant running amok in our world. I put
in my headphones every time a friend decides to play revoltingly sappy or
"empowering" (read: slutty and objectified) music, I don';t date people who are
inherently assholes, I value my independence, I do my best to have real, equal
relationships with everyone in my life instead of manipulative weak substitutes,
and when people around me are failing to meet the basic standards I set for
myself and are -gasp- unhappy about it, I don't indulge "poor me" (and am often
unable to stop myself from making fun of them).
If being this person makes me a Heartless Bitch, then that is a label I
would wear with pride. I've officially converted to the tribe of Bitchy Feminist
Yuppies-aka women who are real, whole, equal people. And i've never looked back.
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