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Women Silencing Women
The danger of women preventing women from speaking their truth
I follow several blogs by women I admire and who generously share their lives and experiences with other women. I find strength and comfort in their words as I see myself in many of their challenges and victories.
Much like my own writing, their offerings are intended to encourage others, to make the point that we are more alike than different and to remind us that we are stronger than we think we are.
But I have noticed something that disturbs me. Each one of them at some point has expressed their dismay at the state of our country and sometimes specifically called out our present administration. This isn’t what bothers me. What does is that without fail a rash of women will express outrage that this woman has used her blog to express her political views.
Many take the time to write long diatribes to communicate their extreme displeasure. Most of the comments run along the lines of, “I am so disappointed that you would use this space to express your political views. That is not what I come to your blog for. Leave politics out of it and stick to writing about what we come here to read.”
I hear in those words, “Stay in your box. Know your place. Don’t have an opinion, or if you do, keep it to yourself.”
