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Wake up dear brothers!!!
“A woman’s place
is in the kitchen,” I am sure you have heard of this saying
or even use it yourself.
This only shows us how men perceive women.
These are many more sayings that degrade women, “A
woman is only to be seen and not heard”, your job is to shut
up and sire children.”
Oh! Please, wake up and face reality, those days are
long gone and we – women, are busy trying to bury them.
I wonder who put into your heads that you are the
stronger sex. Why
should you refer to us as the weaker sex?
If anything women are stronger than men because they
take care of all the household chores, go to work, take care
of the children plus their husbands who want to be treated
like babies. Can
you imagine that the ‘stronger sex’ go to the extent of
fighting for affection and attention of the woman together
with the children?
I do not have anything against men, infact I respect
them. What I fail
to understand is why they don’t want to respect us and give
us credit where we deserve.
I honestly think it’s high time our proud African men
borrowed a leaf from the white men.
The white men know that women are capable of being
great leaders, politicians, historians, scientists, you name
it. That is why
they give their women a chance to prove themselves.
Come on my dear brothers, it won’t hurt if you decide
to give us the same chances.
We have all heard about Saint
Daniel Comboni, infact in the past months, we have held a
many celebration to mark his canonization, not forgetting the
successful pilgrimage to Kibera.
Comboni realized that in order to succeed in his
mission, he had to use Africans, thus the famous quote “Save
Africa with Africans”.
He chose sixteen (16) girls whom he took to training at
the Institute of Verona. The girls came back and became teachers here in Africa.
He knew that the only
way to penetrate into
the homesteads and drum his message was through women and he
succeeded. Did
this make him a lesser man?
“Behind
every successful man, there is a woman” I don’t have
to site any examples because we all know that it is true.
But for the sake of the doubting Thomases, I will talk
about Manu Chandaria the leading CEO in East Africa.
During one of his speeches, he said “I dedicate this
trophy to my wife, without whom I will not be here”.
We also know about Nelson Mandela who made it because
of his former wife Winnie Mandela.
What more do you want from us?
God
created both Adam and Eve using his own hands.
He sued his breath to bring life to the two of them.
Does this not show us that God looks at both men and
women as equals? “Wives
be submissive to your husbands and husbands respect your
wives”. We read
this in the Bible every day yet men turn a deaf ear. It is a two-way traffic.
Respect us and we will obey you.
I am not the only one who think women
can make it. It
seems that shaggy has the same thoughts and his are even
stronger “I wonder if God is a woman”.
This proves that our brothers appreciate what women can
do. “The
strength of a woman”. We
tend to associate anything from the western world as
“negative influence”, but in this case all is “positive
influence”.
Hallo! It’s time you woke up dear brothers and embrace change.
Change is inevitable and as good as a rest.
Tie your shoelaces and get ready to run because we are
coming after you and this time we are not taking any chances.
No!
Not women!!
Story
by Mercy Mukeni
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