{"id":288,"date":"2026-04-29T22:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:10:39","slug":"im-a-rotten-woman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/poetry\/im-a-rotten-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Rotten Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #003366\">Natalie Scott<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">\u2018Cause I\u2019m always spreading my<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Feminist agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">And I never learned to<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Bat my eyelashes or knot<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">A cherry stem with my tongue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">I bark at men, and when I<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Smile I show my gums<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">And when I\u2019m mad I bare<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">My teeth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">I\u2019m rotten \u2018cause I<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Don\u2019t aim to be sweet or sexy or<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Appetizing at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">I don\u2019t give a damn. You can<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Swallow me whole and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">If you choke, then you choke.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Scott \u2018Cause I\u2019m always spreading my &nbsp; Feminist agenda. And I never learned to Bat my eyelashes or knot A cherry stem with my tongue. I bark at men, and when I Smile I show my gums And when I\u2019m mad I bare My teeth. &nbsp; I\u2019m rotten \u2018cause I Don\u2019t aim to be&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/poetry\/im-a-rotten-woman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m a Rotten Woman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_theme","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-288","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions\/289"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}