Not My Responsibility

[00:41.62] Do you know me?

[00:46.94] Really know me?

[00:54.66] You have opinions

[00:57.32] About my opinions

[01:05.56] About my music

[01:10.09] About my clothes

[01:16.46] About my body

[01:22.32] Some people hate what I wear

[01:25.24] Some people praise it

[01:30.55] Some people use it to shame others

[01:34.54] Some people use it to shame me

[01:39.86] But I feel you watching

[01:45.70] Always

[01:48.89] And nothing I do goes unseen

[01:51.54] So while I feel your stares

[01:54.99] Your disapproval

[01:56.96] Or your sigh of relief

[02:00.41] If I lived by them

[02:02.28] I'd never be able to move

[02:05.47] Would you like me to be smaller, weaker, softer, taller?

[02:13.20] Would you like me to be quiet?

[02:16.92] Do my shoulders provoke you?

[02:20.91] Does my chest?

[02:22.50] Am I my stomach? My hips?

[02:25.96] The body I was born with

[02:30.76] Is it not what you wanted?

[02:35.54] If I wear what is comfortable

[02:39.79] I am not a woman

[02:44.04] If I shed the layers

[02:47.76] I'm a slut

[02:51.74] Though you've never seen my body

[02:55.46] You still judge it

[02:58.13] And judge me for it

[03:01.85] Why?

[03:04.78] We make assumptions about people

[03:09.30] Based on their size

[03:11.44] We decide who they are

[03:14.64] We decide what they're worth

[03:18.62] If I wear more

[03:20.74] If I wear less

[03:22.34] Who decides what that makes me?

[03:25.28] What that means?

[03:27.40] Is my value based only on your perception?

[03:32.98] Or is your opinion of me

[03:35.37] Not my responsibility?