Pulling the Curtain on #mydressmychoice

So, they finally found a way to bowl using a golf-ball...eureka! By now, you might have had about the ranting activists trending the hashtag #mydressmychoice on the social site that actually matters, twitter.

You see, it all started when a lady was shamelessly stripped down to her most artistic state by illiterate hooligans at the Embassava bus stop a few days ago. There was another similar barbaric incident at Mombasa and some sneaky rumours here and there to follow it up.

Unfortunately, we Kenyans (and in this context human and women rights activists) are so myopic that we think that unrelentlessly demonstrating against women being undignified in the most uncouth public way warrants approval, far from it! If we think that this incident is the cancer in society, we have another thing coming.

To give my two cents on the issue, I think that deciding to wear mini skirts as a revolt against incident is like using a sellotape to silence an unbearable parrot. The miniskirts will not land the criminals who disgraced the unfortanate lady jail sentences and neither will they offer any solace to the girl(s) in form of justice. In fact, they might as well be sticking it to the man and forgetting why they are incensed in the first place.

The outcry should be directed towards the government in order to pressure the criminal and justice system to prosecute the pigs caught on tape sexually assaulting an independent woman free to make her own choices. And to think that the media was a buzz with a couple of geniuses claiming that the lady deserved the humiliation because she was dressed 'inappropriately'. They may have a point though, dressing 'inappropriately' leads to rape and sexual assault as much as guns kill people and spoons make us fat.

Furthermore, the irony that some of the angered men do not even have the decency to cover their derriers in the name of sagging -let us call it swag- and moreover, only chase short skirts is not lost on me.

The problem with this outcry is that it started when a lady was stripped in the streets. So with all due respect, forget rape, forget FGM, forget forced and early marriages......the vicious attack on the fashion industry should be prioritized.

The thing with society is that the resourceful always have their say and have their way. Decades have seen rural girls exposed to the most vile practices in form of genital mutilation and forced marriages. Whilst the revolt was understandably humongous because of the rise of women in politics, it has since died down because sadly, Turkana girls are not known for having twitter accounts.

In addition, majority of rape cases involve girls who are destitute in some way or another, be it poor, orphaned or fearful to speak out against the oppressive patriachs in society. I am yet to see women gather in Uhuru park because an orphaned six-year old has been raped.

However, now that majority of women are at a risk of being sexually harrased and seriously assaulted simply because a sexually starved tout has decided that he has seen beautifully oiled knees, they speak out. I laugh both sorrowfully and sarcastically.

They did well to use #mydressmychoice instead of #ourdressourchoice. I am all for the unifying initiative but do not kid yourselves that you are standing up for all women in your very selfish and hypocritical demonstration.So, if the cap fits....wear it!