Body image is different for women than men. In her slam poem, "Shrinking Women", Lily Myers explains the different ways men and women socialized to her brother:
You have been taught to grow out, I have been taught to grow in. You learn from our father how to emit, how to produce, to roll each thought off your tongue with confidence. You used to lose your voice every other week from shouting so much. I learned to absorb. I took lessons from our mother in creating space around myself. I learned to read the knots in her forehead while the guys went out for oysters.
The poem won the Best Love Poem at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in April. Watch it below.