Comments on: ‘When you strike a woman, you strike a rock’

By: Twitted by bilalr

Twitted by bilalr — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:42:13 +0000

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By: Bantu Nzira

Bantu Nzira — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:37:53 +0000

Women all over the world need respect not in one day out of 365 but all year round and all the days of their life. Choosing only one day to respect or lobby for their previleges in not enough.
Which shackles of tradition are you talking about. I being an African and very fluent in African culture or Unhu/Ubuntu, African women are the custordians of Unhu/Ubuntu in upbringing African children and in that regard tradition requires them to be examplery and abstain from premarittal bed of immorality, adultery or wanton fornication – the tradition of northern women. Before the advent of the north onto Africa most women kept that code of conduct, then came the north and their culture which some women of Africa have adopted at the cost of HIV and Cervical cancer among other diseases of the bed. Women lobby groups sincerely believe it is an woman’s right to do as she like including mating several men like they do in France, what female rights are these that have reduced the African woman’s life expectancy to 34 years, they are not rights but a schemed plan to exterminate people of Africa under the guise of gender equality.
With respect to the female dress code under spotlight in Sudan, traditional female dress, though most African women have tended to downgrade it, gives more ventilation required for female gender anatomy than the trousers and female dress code enhances natural female appeal to men which is necessary – gender interaction.

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:31:49 +0000

The links must be drawn between South Africa where our right to wear what we like is constitutionally ensured but not practically protected and Sudan, where women do not experience constitutional protection. This shows that as women we still have a long way to go in South Africa, and it should serve to reinforce our commitment to supporting other women.

The bodies of women remain regulated. Clothing is used to mark women as the property of others, and the clothing recommended by these violent enforcers of morality serves to restrict their movement and freedom.

It is time to say ENOUGH to this type of control. It is time as women to make the statments we wish to make with our actions, bodies and clothes and to follow the example of Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein in standing up to restrictions whenever we can.