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Martha Ahumuza
@MarthaAhumuza
Weak Black Woman🖤😇 Medical Student ✌️ Women supporting women 🔥 FEMINIST 💃
Dec 1 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve been trying to understand why men on here react so violently to women’s choices even when those choices have nothing to do with them. And the more I pay attention, the more obvious it becomes that many men simply do not see women as full autonomous human beings. They see women as characters in a story centered around men, as extensions or supporting roles. As people whose decisions must orbit male expectations. When a woman graduates, celebrates a promotion, buys herself a car or simply posts a picture. Immediately men who don’t know
Nov 30 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Before you let a man convince you that your degree doesn’t matter or that being a stay at home mother is the wiser choice pay attention to how men react to educated women on here. Every time a woman shows intelligence, confidence or ambition the response from men is almost always the same. If it truly didn’t matter they wouldn’t fight it so aggressively. If your degree were irrelevant it wouldn’t provoke this level of fear. Men don’t panic over things that don’t threaten them. Your education will open doors and their discomfort is simply
Aug 25 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Serena has every right to make these choices for herself. That is not up for debate and it’s important to say plainly that her body belongs to her alone. But what makes this moment complicated is that when public figures’ private decisions are absorbed into marketing cycles,they stop being just about personal decisions and start shaping cultural norms. What feels unsettling is how quickly her choice has been turned into a broader weight loss campaign, making something private into cultural prescription. The weight loss industry has always preyed on
Aug 21 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The problem isn’t that men want more children but that too many men want them without restructuring their own lives to carry the burden of parenthood. If men matched their desire with an equal willingness to parent like taking the night shifts, booking the appointments, shouldering the career sacrifices then women would be more open to the idea. Until then,women are simply refusing to be the ones who pay the highest price for someone else’s dream. That’s not selfishness but wisdom hard earned through centuries of women being told that family is
Jul 28 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
One of the most devastating legacies of strict parenting is the quiet distance it creates between parent and child,a distance often mistaken for respect. Many of the children grow up emotionally guarded around the parents. They learned early on that love was conditional and tied to obedience and perfection. So they stop sharing,filter themselves and edit their truths to avoid disapproval or punishment. And now,even as adults, many of them struggle to connect with our parents beyond surface
Jul 26 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Your mental illness might explain your behavior but it doesn’t excuse your impact on other people. It might explain why you did what you did but it doesn’t erase the fact that someone else had to live with the impact. It gives context and not absolution. You can say that you have a problem and still acknowledge that you hurt someone. Two things can be true,you are struggling and you're also causing other people harm. Those truths can coexist. And healing often starts not just with naming our wounds but owning the ways we’ve wounded others
Jul 24 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I think karma doesn’t exist and it's just a comforting myth we cling to because the thought of living in a world where cruelty goes unpunished and virtue goes unnoticed is too unbearable for most to sit with. A lie we tell ourselves to avoid the gut punch reality that some times wicked people face no consequences for what they did to us. They’ll go on to thrive,untouched, unbothered while you’re left picking up the pieces hoping some cosmic justice shows up. Wicked people thrive all the time and they often do so loudly,unapologetically,without
Jul 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A lot of obedient children are just anxious kids who’ve learned to suppress themselves to avoid punishment,not well raised just scared. When a child becomes hyper compliant,never talks back,never expresses emotion or questions authority it’s not always a sign of maturity or discipline. Sometimes,it’s a trauma response. They’ve learned that speaking up leads to yelling, beatings or withdrawal of love. So they shrink themselves. These kids grow into adults who say sorrybefore speaking,panic at confrontation, overthink every message they send. They
Jul 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Children owe you nothing for the bare minimum. Food, shelter, school fees. That was your responsibility the moment you decided to have them. Becoming a parent is a choice (in most cases) and with that choice comes a duty not a transaction. Many parents act like they’re doing their children a favor by raising them. They’ll say things like I put a roof over your head, paid your school fees or I clothed and fed you as if those aren’t the foundational responsibilities of parenthood. That’s your job as a parent not a gift. You don’t get extra credit for
Jul 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
An overly religious person. One of the most subtle signs someone may not be a good person is when their religiosity becomes more about control than compassion,when they use their faith as a weapon to judge others. They pray loudly, but cannot sit with someone’s pain without turning it into a lesson. They quote verses fluently, but only the ones that support their own authority or condemn someone else’s. They use it to justify superiority, avoid accountability and wrap manipulation in moral language. What they call faith is often just a form of
Jul 12 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
You need other women. Female friendship isn’t optional. It’s essential. It is resistance and it's refuge. Not just for company,but for survival. For the kind of love that doesn't demand performance or perfection,just presence. In the moments when the world expects you to hold it all together,you need women who remind you that you don’t have to. There is something sacred about being truly known by another woman. About friendships that hold you without needing a reason,where there is no competition. The kind of friendship that's a lifeline,a mirror, refuge
Jul 10 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Capitalism survives on dissatisfaction.
If you woke up tomorrow and genuinely liked your face,your body, your home,your clothes the entire industries would collapse. The goal is to convince you that fulfillment is always one purchase away. Lose 10 pounds,buy this serum,get a promotion,upgrade your phone.
And when you finally do the bar shifts,again. Because if you ever felt enough, you’d stop buying. It teaches you you’re not enough,not pretty enough,not rich enough,not productive enough. If you loved yourself,would you still need to buy ten step
Jul 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I don’t think anyone really gets life. Not fully. We’re born into it without consent, thrown into a world already in motion, expected to find meaning in systems we didn’t design. And just when you start to make sense of it or when the pieces almost fit something rips it apart. A diagnosis. A car crash. A war. A random, senseless tragedy. Life is terrifying in its unpredictability. You can do everything "right." Be kind, work hard and still suffer, still lose,still die in a way that feels brutally unfair or without closure.