Keep calm and stop being an animal
I’M as angry as a white dude whose parking has been stolen. No, I’m angrier.
If I breastfed a grownass crocodile today, that reptile would probably die from all the poison fermenting in me. I’m so angry I could just hit someone... but then again how do you fight for peace?
Men have the easiest job in the world. You just have to find a woman compatible to your place in the world, convince her that you are the one and promise that you will not let her suffer too much. You don’t even have to be a world champion in the grooming department, have a million dollars or look like Denzel Washington.
Hell, even Seal had a wife until she saw the light, or maybe she saw him in the light.
Women will put up with your shit, forgive you time and time again for your indiscretions and raise your snot nosed offspring on a shoestring budget while you play shebeen philosopher and spend your hard earned money on all mannner of floozie and hanger on. Women will tolerate your snoring, your lying, your whoring and even sometimes your violence. Women will actually take delight in cooking and cleaning for you. Even the highly educated ones with powerful jobs will, if they like you enough, look after you. I know, none of us can understand that shit but we enjoy it.
A wise man once said, “dogs will look up to you and cats will look down at you”. I say a good woman will look after you for as long as she lives.
This makes me ashamed of myself and my fellow males. But it’s become time that real men overcome our fake shame and start acting.
How did the scumbags of the world become the rulers of the world?
How do we make decisions that impact the lives of millions of people but cannot control our most primal of urges? While so many have pleaded with us and asked us why we continue to brutalise our women, so many incidents of violence against women and children still happen.
Magdalena Stoffels, Selma Shaimemanya (Shaduka) and Rina !Nau/gawases are just the prominent cases. What about that auntie in your kassie who always gets chased around the house and harrased by her husband on payday when he’s lekker gesuip. What about your friend who grabs his girlfriend by the throat when she wants to see who SMSed him. What about your brother who neglects his wife and kids because he has a massive gafief addiction.
Isn’t that also some form of violence? Is the indignity of deliberate poverty not violence?
What about you... yes you... You know what you do. You don’t want me to
blaai your files and why are you hoeka quiet?
Behave!
The violence against our women and the animalistic behaviour we exhibit
cannot continue unchallenged. We all have to make a big gesture. Not just a gesture, a huge effort. But we first have to realise that all of these things we do is wrong.
We can’t be selling or buying t-shirts with ‘keep calm and knife her’ printed on it. We can’t copy and paste the Facebook status of our newspaper’s page with, ‘girls today behave like animals’, a diatribe of poorly thought out accusations of what women supposedly do. Did you think? I am sorry if I ever accused you of being able to think. And there were even some idiots who liked the status. Do men have the monopoly on beast like behaviour?
We can’t continue to argue that, because women wear miniskirts they ask to be raped. Did you think? No you didn’t.
It’s difficult to convince anyone that we are not animals. Behave!
– rambler@namibian.com.na