Fire Test: When You Ask Women to Support Violence

You are sending forth aspiring leaders who have no history of standing against violence,

“47% of women in the U.S. have experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.”
Source: CDC 2016/17 Lifetime Prevalence

no record of defending women or children,
no evidence of compassion, protection, or justice —
and yet, you pressure women to support them.

That says a lot.
It says everything, in fact — about them, and about you.

You can’t build peace on a foundation of violence.
You can’t heal a community with people who excuse harm.
You can’t preach about love while ignoring the bruises, the shelters, the silenced voices, and the graves.

Every time you elevate someone who has harmed, mocked, or enabled the suffering of women and children,
you are telling Survivors their pain doesn’t matter —
that power matters more than safety,
that image matters more than truth.

That is not strategy.
That is spiritual rot.

Women have carried nations on our backs while bleeding.
We have prayed in the dark while others pretended the light was enough.
We have raised generations with trembling hands, whispering, “Maybe it will be different for you.”

But it won’t be —
not until women stop surrendering our moral clarity to protect men who refuse to protect us.

We are not obligated to applaud harm.
We are not required to worship leadership without conscience.
And we will not be bullied into silence while our daughters inherit our wounds.

So no, we won’t fall in line. Absolutely not. We faced villains in our homes when we were younger and weaker.  
We will draw the line.
Because history belongs to the women who finally say,
“No more violence — not in our name.”