Survival Is Not an Ideology
If yesterday was a tornado, today is a day of resolution. I no longer have the luxury of avoidance. There is no alternative left but to face fears that should perhaps have been confronted twenty years ago. Healing, I am learning, does not arrive as a moment of peace—it arrives as a decision. In an age where the word feminism is routinely mocked, I have realised that it is most often ridiculed by those who fear losing the comfort of dominance or the safety of submission. Choice unsettles people. I have met many women who proudly declare themselves “non-feminists,” believing that feminism has forced women into lives they never wanted—into work, into independence, into exhaustion. To them, I say this gently: nowhere in scripture does it say a woman must work. If you are fulfilled caring for a family, that is a valid and dignified choice. But fulfillment cannot be enforced as a universal rule. When one woman’s reality differs from yours, it does not threaten your way of life. If...