Too many women—especially monitored, poor, rural, disabled, and older women—do not have easy access to digital spaces. And many who do are walking awa
Too many women—especially monitored, poor, rural, disabled, and older women—do not have easy access to digital spaces. And many who do are walking away from big platforms because they will not tolerate the constant harassment, abuse, and silencing.
Now we’re watching a disturbing pattern: men hijacking the language of oppression and using it against women.
Segregation, as fought by the civil rights movement, was about safety and access. It was about ending exclusion, protecting Black people-especially Black women and girls who white men argued they had every right to rape and violate as they doggone well pleased-, and securing resources denied through violence and law.
That movement’s sacred goal was not to erase boundaries that protect people—it was to create safety where there was none. Strong emphasis on sacred.
The civil rights movement (notice we call it THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT) was brave, bold, courageous, inspiring, artful, and a blueprint for generations to come.
When males use that same language to demand entry into female-only spaces—shelters, prisons, restrooms, crisis centers—they twist liberation into domination. That is not equality. That is coercion cloaked in hijacked suffering.
Safety is not a privilege. It is a right.
And stripping women and children of protected spaces is not justice—it’s another form of violence.
To those who know better but stay silent: stop calling this progress.
It is regression dressed up as compassion.
Women’s safety is not a bargaining chip.
Stop hijacking movements born from blood and bravery to serve agendas that harm the very people they were meant to protect.
It’s time to cut it out—before another generation of girls learns that “inclusion” means being unprotected.
So why are they being compared? Because it is manipulation. Because a man is trying to get access to what he wants by any means available to him.
Women and children’s safety be damned. A tradition in too many cultures on this planet.
How this discussion started. This image is now being used by white men who are angry that women say “no” to men in our spaces, sports, opportunities, crisis centers, healing spaces, prison cells, shelters, and locker rooms. According to them, they are the young Black terrified girl and women are the angry racist white people-including Black women.
This specific group of folks who could have killed her and/or her family. Who made her school days hell. Who could have destroyed her family’s property in a time when there were no cameras and the police were likely to look the other way. If she was assaulted by a white male there would be no justice available to her because this system wasn’t created for that.
This is not the first version of this conversation. It happens frequently.
Meanwhile, according to them, no Black woman is
- deserving of safety,
- entitled to protection of our bodies without exhaustive explanations,
- has a right to a female care taker for women and girls with disabilities,
- allowed male free healing spaces,
- allowed to play sports with other females-especially contact sports to prevent injuries from males, etc….
We are only good for fighting. For the desires and aspirations of men. 
It almost looks like empathy, but it ain’t.
*Note: Many of these persons against this sort of thing, are people from various racial backgrounds.