You Don't Speak For Me ...

Below is a post shared on Facebook in regard to yesterday's Women's March. So well said ... and yes, the woman who wrote this, DOES speak for me.

"So for those of you that missed it I reposted a poignant, non profanity laced, post about how those women yesterday did not speak for me and many women like me.... I also posted about how I was treated by those women yesterday while I was wearing my Trump Jacket. Apparently FaceBook feels women like me should not be heard and removed my post. Well I will be heard and I will continue to post and repost. #pursueyourevolution #youdonotspeakforme #FACEBOOKCENSORSHIPISBS #silentmajority

 I am not a "disgrace to women" because I don't support the women's march.

 I do not feel I am a "second class citizen" because I am a woman. I do not feel my voice is "not heard" because I am a woman. I do not feel I am not provided opportunities in this life or in America because I am a woman. I do not feel that I "don't have control of my body or choices" because I am a woman. I do not feel like I am "not respected or undermined" because I am a woman. I am not a "victim" because you say I am.

 I AM a woman.
I can make my own choices.
I can speak and be heard.
I can VOTE.
I can work if I want.
I control my body.
I can defend myself.
I can defend my family. 

There is nothing stopping me to do anything in this world but MYSELF.
I do not blame my circumstances or problems on anything other than my own choices. Sometimes in life, we don't always get what we want. I take responsibility for myself.
I am a mother, a daughter, a wife, a sister, a friend. I am not held back in life. There are walls I choose not to go over, and those are of my own personal choice.

 Quit blaming.
Take responsibility.

If you want to speak, do so. But do not expect me, as a woman, to take you seriously wearing a pink va-jay-jay hat on your head and screaming profanities and bashing men.

 If you have beliefs, and speak to me in a kind manner, I will listen. But do not expect me to change my beliefs to suit yours. Respect goes both ways.

 If you want to impress me, especially in regards to women, speak about the real injustices and tragedies that affect women in foreign countries who do not have the opportunities or even the means to have their voices heard.

In Saudi Arabia the women can't drive. They have few rights and must always be covered.
In China and India there's infantcide of baby girls.
In Afghanistan there's few educational opportunities for women.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo women's rapes are absolutely brutal and the women are left to die, or become HIV infected and left to care for their children alone.
In Mali the women can not escape the torture of genital mutilation.
In Pakistan, in tribal areas, the women are gang raped to pay for men's crime.
In Guatemala the impoverished female underclass face domestic violence, rape and are listed as the second-highest rate of HIV/AIDS, right after sub-Saharan Africa. An epidemic of gruesome unsolved murders has left hundreds of women dead with some of their bodies left with hate messages. What about the 7 year old girls being sold or married off to 60 year old men, or the millions of women sold and bought into sex trafficking?

And that's just a few examples.

 So when women get together in AMERICA and whine that they don't have equal rights and march in their clean clothes, after eating a hearty breakfast, and it's probably a vacation away from a comfy warm place of residence... "

This WOMAN does not support it.

 -Author Unknown