On January 21st, 2017 women everywhere decided to march all across the country. Many even celebrated that it was a wonderful day to be a woman in America. Freedom to protest and freedom of speech is a great thing because it’s simply your right as an American. But I’m a woman and I didn’t march. Why didn’t I march, you ask?

I didn’t march because the ‘women’s’ march wasn’t a march of unity. Pro-life and pro-choice women couldn’t march together and that was made clear in a statement released from the movement.:

"The Women's March's Platform is pro-choice and that has been our stance from day one. We want to assure all of our partners, as well as participants, that we are pro-choice as clearly stated in our Unity Principles. We look forward to marching on behalf of individuals who share the view that women deserve the right to make their own reproductive decisions. The anti-choice organization in question is not a partner of the Women's March on Washington. We apologize for this error."

You see, the women’s march doesn’t represent all women. It only represents those who agree with each other. Pro-choice and liberal values have a voice in this world and people like me (pro-life, white, and so on) don’t. I’m silenced. We’re all silenced.

If you’re pro-life, you don’t care about women, you’re stupid or you have little knowledge. That’s the message and those are the words people who are pro-life battle. They’re silenced to freely express how they believe it’s wrong to murder a child, and it’s been evident that the women’s March organization would rather have them shut up rather than show up. I realize that maybe some ignored this and showed up anyway but I couldn’t and I won’t.

I get it. I know you want your voice to be heard but the ‘silenced’ want their voice to be heard as well. I didn’t march because I don’t agree with what this march was all about. If anything, I don’t believe it was unified. It was unified for those on the left but for other women outside of that, they were silenced.

And let’s be honest, it’s hard to believe that this wasn’t just an anti-Trump gathering. You say that it was all about equal rights but I’m not sure if that’s true. The day before the march, Trump was elected as our president and for some reason, you believe that your rights are being taken away. They haven’t been. The reason I believe that this whole thing wasn’t just an equal rights march is because Madonna, Ashley Judd and other high profile celebrities proved otherwise. This isn’t a unified march and it isn’t loving. I read some signs posted from that day and some of them are downright awful and mean. I would even say that some were degrading.

During the entire Trump campaign, he has never said once that he was going to take away women’s rights. If he was anti-women, then why did he have a woman run his entire campaign? You see, we still have the right to vote, the right to work, the right to own properties, the right to dress as you please, and yes, even the right to protest.

Whether you like it or not, Trumps cabinet is filled with women. His daughter Ivanka is a successful, powerhouse entrepreneur who doesn’t back down. Women support him and women work for him. He’s not anti-women and never once did he say that.

How does silencing the pro-life movement or having someone else pay for your birth control make you a bold, strong women? It doesn’t. How do you benefit our next generation of young girls by teaching them that it’s okay to say that your body makes more of statement then your brilliant mind? You don’t. In fact, that’s making things worse. You’re not accomplishing what you want to accomplish, which I’m not exactly sure what that is. I don’t know what was accomplished during this march or what they wanted to accomplish but I do know that it wasn’t unity.

The point of the women’s movement used to be all about elevating women but now, it’s turned into a systematic attack on everyone who doesn’t agree with the leftist agenda. I’m tired of division. I’m tired of the fighting. I’m tired. I’m annoyed and I’m frustrated.

We don’t need a march for women. We need to start seeing people as individuals that are different. Stop this madness of trying to divide others and tear each other down. We need to stop trying to silence those that disagree with us, and also, let’s stop degrading our leadership.

I’m a woman but I didn’t march.