No male is explaining his right to boundaries, just women and girls. That is by design. When a society demands that women justify their dis
No male is explaining his right to boundaries, just women and girls. That is by design.
When a society demands that women justify their discomfort instead of honoring it, it quietly dismantles generations of progress.
When a society makes women explain why they feel uneasy around males in spaces meant for rest, healing, or safety — something sacred is being undone.
For generations, women fought for the right to be believed the first time we spoke.
The first time we said no.
The first time we said, “I don’t feel safe.”
That was the heart of the work — not just gaining rights, but reclaiming the right to our own knowing. To trust what our bodies and spirits tell us without needing permission to believe ourselves.
Every time a woman is asked to justify her boundaries, to explain her fear, or to soften her “no,” the ground shifts beneath that hard-won progress. The message becomes: your truth must be translated before it can be honored.
But women’s intuition is not an argument to win. It’s a signal, a kind of sacred language shaped by survival, memory, and care.
It’s how we keep ourselves — and often others — alive.
To question that instinct is to reopen the door to doubt, dismissal, and danger.
To honor it is to say: your safety matters more than someone else’s comfort.
The goal has never been for women to become skilled at explaining why they feel unsafe.
The goal is a world where her unease, her boundary, her “no” is received with respect — not suspicion.
Because every woman deserves to live in a world where her first word is enough.
Where her spirit is trusted the moment it speaks.
Where “no” is not the beginning of an argument, but the end of one.