Gender issue, women may not need to fight for “their” rights

Posted June 26th, 2008 by kamala

For some years now, we have been hearing murmurings, rumors as well as shouts demanding women rights, equality and gender awareness sharing of ideas and all major resources or material resources if not materialism!

Women through demonstration, media and law bodies are in demand of what they claim to be their rights, I don’t know from whom and who took their rights and where were they when their right were being confiscated. I urge young Africans and especially girls to think big before inheriting this kind of activism.

We need to know what we are exactly fighting for and what we need and after getting it, will it really satisfy our need or endanger our life!

African culture is said to vandalize women rights, but before I personally can agree with these allegations, I must first think clearly on what is being said if sounds logically or just a matter of demoralizing African culture or anything else!

In my tribe, men are said to be selfish and humiliate women by setting them aside from main delicious foods. We need to clearly analyze and see what we call humiliation. People need to luxuries, so my tribal women were set aside with fatty foods, then now we claim that their rights are vandalized.

My simple research, shown me that, women were set far from all fatty foods after proving to have caused much of maternal deaths as well as child mortality. After the abandonment of women from these foods, maternal deaths and child mortality decreased to the maximum.

The problem here can simply be that, women were not allowed to eat these delicious foods from time of marriage till deaths since it became a belief but above all these strengthened women health and elongated women lives even if they should have stopped it during time of pregnancy only for they led to fatty infants.

According to my simple research, there are two tribes in my country which practiced this custom of forbidding women form participating in delicious foods, and both seems to have many long living women than men, also most of these women who can be regarded as our grand mothers’ mothers, gave many births safely with bigger number of children safely without attending any clinics or labor wards.

Can we today come to claim that men vandalized women rights in these tribes or improved women health? Think guys meeting a woman with over hundred years, living in villages, she can read and right clearly on a candle right without grasses like you a young and energetic guy?

These findings led me to turning into a vegetarian for its highly useful and proved so through our ancestors’ wisdom. My advice after this simple research is; instead of blaming African men on women, we need to respect and live their wisdom not to make women follow men thinking that its equality while killing their health.

Another thing here on African culture and wisdom perspective I researched on was women doing much work while men sat drinking waiting for food. In my tribe there was a division of labor. Women has to do all of the simple energy activities with much brainy, while men had to perform tough ones. Fetching firewood, hunting, digging in slopes, chasing killer animals, grazing, falling trees, milking cows, all kind of construction, etc, were for men.

Women had three main jobs, to raise up kids by being close to them (and that’s why African culture were retained) to take care of the house and to cook for the said family.

Simply looking, one may prove that women were disintegrated by men, but here we need to consider a pregnant woman performing tough jobs, or look at the children raised by any other person apart from moms, look at yourself on who do you love the most between you dad and mom.

Let us look and think clearly before joining this activism on thinking we are fighting for women rights instead of joining them and live like they lived, that’s why I decided to become a vegetarian! But above we should try to examine issues by looking at African culture, what our culture say before entertaining foreign ones!

“I love women I love my mom, I love my sisters above all, I love my girlfriend, and am proud of being born a man from a woman’s womb”