Women - the constant battle with the part of me I can't accept

[mocking_truth]

Why are women portrayed so helplessly? Women are either mystical nymphs or seductresses, purely innocent or symbolisms of lust...is there nothing out there that suggests that women are fighters able to take on a direction of their own? Because it seems as though they currently exist only for the enchantment of men. But why can't we work for ourselves, our families, our desires, our beliefs? Why can't we materialize our dreams, and speaking of which, why can't we dream outside the confines of falling in love and marrying? Are we not meant to have the power to make a difference on a grand scale...are we unable to lust for leaving a larger mark than a pitter-patter of sub-par children on an overpopulated world? Why must we be so frail and pointless? And vulnerable?! When the world is plagued with deformity and demons, the passive are either destroyed in the process or corrupted all together. Women seem to be primed for victimization. I don't understand it. Nevertheless, the people I see continue to embrace the entrancing of men as their foremost desire in life. It's a terrible dependency and appeasement that I will never accept, because it places power and control in the hands of another.

I'll never do anything like that. Control is mine to work for and mine to keep. And I want power; however, this is not the power to control others, but the power to control myself and never fall victim again. And if, in the unfortunate instance I do become someone's pawn, I need the power to free myself from my enemy and if necessary, fight back. Call me power hungry, but I can't deny the fact that the helpless always die under corruption's thumb. It's awful.