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 a divisive
As fucking possible
And completely detached
From the rest of the desperate click-bait article
We are used as fodder
To generate comments
Because the presence of a woman
Is apparently reactive
FUCK OFF.
I'm 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 a divisive
As fucking possible
And completely detached
From the rest of the desperate click-bait article
We are used as fodder
To generate comments
Because the presence of a woman
Still causes massive arguments
FUCK OFF
I'm 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
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.