Times Of Swaziland: WOMEN ARE TRASH

WOMEN ARE TRASH
================================================================================
By Philile Masango on 10/03/2017 22:20:00


E.X.A.C.T.L.Y!!!
That reaction you just had reading this headline is the reason why gender parity
‘advocacy’ cries like “Men are trash” are a problem. “Men are trash”
has been trending on my Facebook timeline for a while now and more intensely
over the past week or two.
I’ve tried hard to avoid being part of the debate in past months because of
how quickly it tends to derail to accusations and even profanities and how you
haven’t dotted your i and omitted a full stop in a sentence. But I’ve always
felt a sense of duty to give my contribution towards shaping our societies, so
I’ll address a few issues raised by this feminist rallying call.
Firstly, before I’m accused of pissing in the face of the ‘Woke’ and on
the feminist agenda, let me state it outright that this is not an article aimed
at telling feminists, who are mostly women, what to say and feel about what they
have identified as their struggles or even how to react to vignettes of their
experiences with the trash that is men.
Feminists hate that. I should know I’m one of them; in the tier that believes
in equality of the sexes and not only women’s rights and interests – a
humanist. This is rather an article designed to address why it is important that
we engage each other in our quest to correct each other’s dark ways or as I
like to put it; how to (up) lift each other out of the dark into the light.
#DoNotEngage
Yes, men are trashy in their behaviours.
All men? For the purposes of this debate, let’s say ALL men are trash, but
then what if the only thing we social justice advocates are prepared to do on a
deliberate, constant and consistent basis is remind them of this fact?