Phenomenal Women

I thought the poem Phenomenal Women was very inspiring, and very true.  I think that the way women are portrayed as an art figure is kind of a hard expectation to live up to.   The line “I walk into a room just as cool as you please, and to a man, the fellows stand or fall down on their knees.  Then they swarm around me, a hive of honey bees.  I say it’s the fire in my eyes, and the flash of my teeth, the sing in my waist, and the joy in my feet.  I’m a woman phenomenally, phenomenal women, that’s me.”  I think that first it states how much control we have over the males, but at the same time I think that it states we (as women) have to always look our best, and be okay with males swooning over us.  As a girl I am flattered when boys come up flirt, but when the flirting is unwanted then it gets very annoying.  On the other hand when I don’t try to dress up and boys pass me by I feel kind of offended.  This is the reasons that I think it is a hard expectation to live up to.