WOMEN HAVE THEIR RIGHTS

Sir,

“I am a woman with thoughts and questions and bad things” to say. I say if I’m beautiful, I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story - I will. I will speak and I will never apologise to the frightened millions who resent that they never had it in them to do it. I stand here and I am amazing, for you, not because of you,” once said Amy Shumer.

It can only have a resounding meaning to a woman who has either been abused, marginalised, overlooked or a sister and mother to one who has suffered one or two or three injustices.
Women, of late are coming to realise the strength of unity over their shared injustices.

Oneness, out of all the many inconveniences there are, is a paramount ingredient in the struggles against patriarchy.
Inequality is such a sore divider; it puts others here and others over there. When I was growing up I learnt perseverance from a woman.
From a woman I experienced greatness. Just about everything I have seen has been with the help of a woman.

 I have grown to be a man, a strong man because a woman did not shun her place as a provider and leader instead she took it head-on, and to a comparable extent, won. I have nothing against the male figure; I am one who at best, is strong. I am only grateful to the beauty.

In the Amy abstract above, I picked an amazing piece of line that most patriarchal men would shiver at. “I stand here and I am amazing, for you, not because of you” and I am reminded of the number of times I believed I owned just about any lady who had the ‘privilege’ of going out with me.
There are a lot of us who do not remember the number of times we thought women were only beautiful because we told them they were.
How many times do we demand an apology for something we would not apologise for? How many times and how many great ideas have we put out because we know only ours to be ideal?

How many bodies have we violated, hearts have we broken and dreams have we shattered? Can we be the men we want to be if they are less the women they should be? Should we not be a society of rights and sense and humility and honesty and tolerance and love?
What, by the way, effort and objectivity would a man put forth in deciding legislation about the well-being of a woman in a society solely run by patriarchs?

Does that man have the privilege to legislate whether a woman can have an abortion when he is less a father to his own bambinos?
They are not ours and they are not commodities to be tossed and killed whenever we see fit. By and by, they are not women because we see fit.

FIFA Dlamini

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