Thread by @mahisian_wahine, I'm seeing alot of comments from non Māori who don't understand us [...]

I'm seeing alot of comments from non Māori who don't understand us at all on our tikanga, on how we treat our women.
Now im only speaking from my experience.
I'm Rongomaiwahine we come from Te Mahia Mai Tawhiti. Since I can remember I was always made to feel important, special,

a gift, more so because I was a girl. From a young age I was taught to voice the opinions that matter n to fight for them if I stood by them, I was never not once made to feel like what I had to say didn't matter. I noticed how staunch the wahine in my whānau, my iwi are. From

the whare kai to the classroom they ruled. And I soon learnt that any man that stood against them would have to tread lightly. I remember at whānau hui it was always the wahine that determined which way the wind would blow and I remember thinking wow that's gonna be me. Staunch

just like them. But you know what those same staunch wahine would happily go into the wharekai preparing meals, laughing, teaching us kids, growling us kids when we had no ears, making sure the marae was running smoothly n guess what the men were right there beside them helping.

I love the men in my whānau, my iwi they back us wahine all the way every damn day always proping us up, teaching us, guiding us. We all have our roles to play on the smooth running of a marae, no job was less important than another. It doesn't matter if your in the kitchen

peeling spuds, looking after the kids, out hunting for kai, doing the karanga, or sitting on the pae every single one of us supported each other. I remember my papa saying to me once "you can't have the warrior without the cook and you can't have the cook without the warrior"

we all needed each other to maintain the mana of our whānau, our iwi and our marae. Some of you may remember I recently moved from a ringawera to kai karanga, it's not something I invisioned for myself but I do it for my whānau n for the memory of my papa n nanny. I'm proud to

do that for them. Because at the end of the day it's not about yourself it's about all of you. This is something Judith will never understand. When I heard what she said all I heard was me me me me me, she wanted upturn our tikanga not for the good of the people but herself, she

centered herself. In the process she sent out a call to all the anti Māori to attack and that they did. It doesn't end there, she dog whistled to the feminist who are now telling us we are oppressed not by colonisation that took our rights to be heard away in the first place,

not by the sufferage movement that made us choose between gaining those rights back or our culture but by the men who helped raise us, i wouldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be as strong as I am without them. Most specifically my papa.

I'm not oppressed within my world and if I felt that in anyway my papa made sure I knew that I could speak up at anytime. You know what if I wanted to speak on the pae I could but I don't want to it's not where I feel comfortable n I hate public speaking. At some of my marae

around the motu wahine speak on the pae at others they don't. On some that don't Maori wahine in the past have spoken and fought for their right to speak and won. But you know what I actually enjoyed being in the kitchen, my best memories at the marae are in the kitchen. I can

still hear my nanny's laugh whenever I walk in there. Eating and trying everyone's cooking learning their recipes, singing, dancing. The kitchen is where it's at whānau. My nan use to say the important matters were discussed in the kitchen anyway

so for Judith to tread all

over that is just another f you to maori. This woman wants to be leader of our country, of us.
A chief with no mana is not fit to be chief.
And that is why you will not get our vote Judith.

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