There are moments when the world feels loud with distortion. Today is one of those days.Across online spaces, some men are reaching into history
There are moments when the world feels loud with distortion.
Today is one of those days.
Across online spaces, some men are reaching into history not to heal it, not to tell the truth of it, but to use it as leverage. They are lifting fragments of past harm, wrapping them in selective storytelling, and demanding compliance from women and girls in the present.
This is not scholarship.
This is not concern for humanity.
This is manipulation dressed up as memory.
Let’s name what is happening with clarity and steadiness.
The first deception: calling harm “rescue”
You may hear this claim repeated with what looks like confidence:
“Men married girls to save them from being single mothers.”
This framing erases reality.
Girls were not being “saved.” They were being absorbed into male control before they had bodies, voices, or choices of their own.
Pregnancy outside of marriage was often created by male power and coercion, then used as justification for more control.
The social punishments women faced were designed by male-dominated systems, then blamed on girls themselves.
Calling this “rescue” is like calling a locked door a gift because the weather outside is harsh.
The second deception: blaming colonization selectively
Yes, colonization caused immense harm.
It disrupted kinship systems, economies, languages, and safety nets.
But notice the trick.
Some men invoke colonization only when it serves their authority, while ignoring that colonization also entrenched male dominance, erased women’s leadership, and commodified female bodies in new and brutal ways.
Colonization did not liberate girls.
And it is not a permission slip to return to girl control under another name.
The third deception: collapsing womanhood to erase women
Here is where the manipulation sharpens.
Some men (and supporters) now argue:
“Colonizers didn’t see women and girls as full women.”
“Therefore womanhood is a flexible category.”
“Therefore men can be women.”
“Therefore women no longer have authority over their own safety, spaces, care, or boundaries.”
This is not logic.
This is strategic erasure.
Women’s humanity was denied in the past as a justification for exploitation. Repeating that denial today does not correct history. It extends it.
When womanhood is stripped of meaning, female safety becomes optional.
When female authority is nullified, girls are left unguarded.
That outcome is not accidental.
What this pattern always protects
Across time, place, and ideology, the pattern is consistent.
Girls’ vulnerability becomes negotiable.
Women’s boundaries become debatable.
Male desire is reframed as necessity.
Female resistance is framed as selfish, backward, or cruel.
And somehow, always, the burden of “saving humanity” lands on women’s bodies and children’s lives.
You are allowed to see that clearly.
A steady truth for difficult days
Even on days when the news is heavy and the discourse is cruel, this remains true:
Women are not the cause of social collapse.
Girls do not exist to repair men’s choices.
Human survival does not require the surrender of female safety.
Children thrive when they are protected, not claimed.
The future of humanity depends on women being respected, girls being guarded, and children being allowed to grow without sexual, emotional, or ideological capture.
Your power has not disappeared
If you are tired today, that does not mean you are weak.
If you are angry, that does not mean you are confused.
If you see through this and feel unsettled, it means your perception is working.
Your power lives in your clarity.
You can refuse narratives that require your harm.
You can name manipulation without apologizing.
You can stand for children without being baited into debates designed to exhaust you.
You can protect life by insisting that women and girls are fully human, fully entitled, and fully worthy of safety.
You are not destroying humanity by drawing boundaries.
You are preserving it.
And even on a traumatizing day, when the lies feel relentless, remember this:
The truth does not need permission to exist.
Neither do you.