Let’s name this for what it is: When politicians, media figures, or public influencers call women “hateful” for expressing concerns about our safet
Let’s name this for what it is:
When politicians, media figures, or public influencers call women “hateful” for expressing concerns about our safety, they are not protecting peace—they are silencing pain.
This isn’t civility.
This isn’t leadership.
It is cowardice masked as control.
We have the right to:
Ask questions
Speak concerns
Protect ourselves
Name what makes us feel unsafe
And when your only response is to slur us, shame us, or label us as hateful,
you are no different than the abusers we’ve been surviving.
🛑 Women Have Every Right to Speak—Because This Nation Has Yet to Make Things Right
To this day, there have been:
No widespread reparations for the historic and generational violence committed against women.
No national reckoning for the systemic rape, sterilization, and abuse of Black and Indigenous women.
No full apology, no truth commission, no comprehensive policy change that rises to meet the weight of this violence.
🛑 This Is Not “Debate”—This Is Dismissal
When women raise real, lived, earned concerns about:
Male violence
Medical negligence
Sex-based rights
Child protection
Boundaries that matter
…and your only answer is to name-call, deflect, or smear?
That is not leadership. That is gaslighting in a soundbite.
🎤 Women Are Allowed to Speak. Period.
We are allowed to grieve.
We are allowed to question laws.
We are allowed to say:
“This is not safe.”
“This does not protect girls.”
“I deserve to be heard.”
You can disagree.
But you cannot slander.
Women are not the threat.
We are the ones who notice the threats.
We are the ones who speak up early.
We are the ones who refuse to be quiet even when it’s costly.
🧭 If Your Leadership Requires Women’s Silence—It’s Not Leadership
True leadership:
Listens to the lived experience of women
Doesn’t weaponize shame to avoid accountability
Recognizes that Survivors ask questions because we’ve seen what happens when no one does
📢 Say It Clearly and Say It Again:
This country has never reckoned with its violence against women.
It has never meaningfully challenged that violence at the root.
It has never repaired or honored the pain women have carried, survived, and outlived.
So if you think calling us “hateful” will stop us from protecting ourselves and our daughters?
You still don’t understand whose daughters we are.
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Share if you feel safe and ready—your voice might be the lifeline someone else needs.
And if you do share, remember to cite the messenger. Words carry legacy.
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