Jacob Waiswa
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Men tend to be more aggressive than women on issues to do with manifestation of power, and make war decisions that turn out to be disastrous to women and children. Probably, if they participated in war decisions, being the more sensitive about safety, they would have worked to prevent war.
For men, not until they suffered combat burn-out would they rethink war or condemn it. The United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 recognized that women and girls were most affected by armed conflict and, thus, called for their participation in decision making.
Reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) indicated that men were raped by fellow men as a war humiliating weapon. This, though, was an isolated case compared to reports about women raped during armed conflict.
As a means to negotiate safety, women often give in to their captors and offer them sex for pleasure and celebration of victory or unconditionally become their ‘wives.’ As women are forced to marry elsewhere, they are disengaged from their families (husband and children) they were most attached to. It is never possible to deal with the lost bond. In addition to the sex aggression and trauma, they suffer chronic depression resulting from lost family contact.
Men fate as an outcome of separation due to war is not as depressing –as culturally they are backed to always find new wives –when they needed to –and expand the family size. At the end of the war, such is understood and accepted, but not if it they were women. The women (wives) automatically lose their husbands –who will not easily stomach the fact that their wives were only forced to marry and bare children elsewhere due to war and separation.
Men, who tend to be most active in politics, run away for their dear lives –leaving women and children behind to pay for their sins in the hands of their captors. Unless the international humanitarian law took its course, the remaining family would be used to lure back the wanted politician.
Brigadier Chris Opon Otiak, a former senior officer in Obote government was forced to return after years away from his family. Only he met upon arrival was his notorious death at the hands of NRA/M government soldiers.
One the other hand, the traditional nature of men to be brave turns them into defensive posts for families. In case on an attack on their family, they will fight to see it safe. However, when they fail, they are killed –leaving behind a fatherless and husband-less house.
It can be a horrible beginning for the family upon the event. To merely humiliate the husbands and fathers –especially, the non-violent ones, attackers resort to raping wives and daughters to humiliate husbands.
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
REVISED: Are Women Really the Weaker Sex?
After the world war, women came to the limelight, and many flocked to workstations -having impressed in war adventure. Occupation-wise, they moved to the same radar as men.
Success of civil rights movements in 1960s helped to strengthen the position of a woman in Western Europe. Events soon set impulses to the Middle East. Women, there, did not enjoy the same privileges as men. And they were vulnerable to physical and verbal attacks.
Numerous prejudices were channeled to them. The structures in place had its oppressive dos and don’ts for them. But women, still, were the most oppressed –as they did not enjoy economic, educational and economic rights. Instead, as let down by Napoleon Bonaparte, women in the Middle East were a reserve of the kitchen.
In Uganda, strides have been made to liberate women. The country, now, boasts of reasonable number (of women) in political offices at different levels. Employment opportunities too are very much open to them, as is the gate to further studies. As a result, very many are rising to prominence.
Emphasis on women education has seen off women take positive advances in life. Even adults now go to adult literacy centers for further training which has helped guard against men chauvinism; increase their economic and social power. Women now find themselves capable of doing anything a man would like; managing a business firm, contesting a political office, and acting in self-defense against men violence
Biblical personalities like Mary (mother of Jesus Christ), Ruth and Bathsheba -who played leadership roles in Israel. God used them to fulfill his purpose in the world –of bringing salvation to sinful mankind.
There also exist women groups or associations that advocate and uphold women successes in their economic, educational and political strides. In these networks they enjoy advantages of sharing support information, encouraging and supporting education of the girl child etcetera.
The secret of women’s indomitable power tends to only be a preserve for the military. They are usually aware of the problem of trusting women. Soldiers, who all victim of women irresistible influence, could be doing so at own peril.
No wonder, women have proved best workers for defense or security intelligence gathering. This could explain why President Muammar Gadaffi of Libya preferred women power to men's for recruitment as bodyguards. So, why are women considered the weaker sex?
With such, it sounds great deal of capital for any successful negotiations. It would only be a matter of asking herself, “what?” Surely, women are bound to be decision makers anywhere and anyhow. Already, there are acceptable assertions to that regard –given the saying, “behind every successful man, there is a woman.”
As it is already happening, in future, all decisions would no longer just be bedroom-based -but in all spheres of human activity. Simply, it would be a woman’s availability that would matter -whether one or two of them -to cause an effect by her will.
But women are gradually coming to terms with the changing cultural and socioeconomic realities. It is very possible to find a woman entirely supporting a family without the help of a “man” -while at the same time married to “him”.
It would, therefore, be true that the so-called decisions men of any caliber make are actually women’s. Men could simply make any such decisions unconsciously. And so is a wave, this time round, called the strength or power of a woman. We could as well see cultures that earlier genetically discriminated women, get eroded. Should we expect emergence of men movements, thereafter, to advocate gender equity as women movement could have done?
Success of civil rights movements in 1960s helped to strengthen the position of a woman in Western Europe. Events soon set impulses to the Middle East. Women, there, did not enjoy the same privileges as men. And they were vulnerable to physical and verbal attacks.
Numerous prejudices were channeled to them. The structures in place had its oppressive dos and don’ts for them. But women, still, were the most oppressed –as they did not enjoy economic, educational and economic rights. Instead, as let down by Napoleon Bonaparte, women in the Middle East were a reserve of the kitchen.
In Uganda, strides have been made to liberate women. The country, now, boasts of reasonable number (of women) in political offices at different levels. Employment opportunities too are very much open to them, as is the gate to further studies. As a result, very many are rising to prominence.
Emphasis on women education has seen off women take positive advances in life. Even adults now go to adult literacy centers for further training which has helped guard against men chauvinism; increase their economic and social power. Women now find themselves capable of doing anything a man would like; managing a business firm, contesting a political office, and acting in self-defense against men violence
Biblical personalities like Mary (mother of Jesus Christ), Ruth and Bathsheba -who played leadership roles in Israel. God used them to fulfill his purpose in the world –of bringing salvation to sinful mankind.
There also exist women groups or associations that advocate and uphold women successes in their economic, educational and political strides. In these networks they enjoy advantages of sharing support information, encouraging and supporting education of the girl child etcetera.
The secret of women’s indomitable power tends to only be a preserve for the military. They are usually aware of the problem of trusting women. Soldiers, who all victim of women irresistible influence, could be doing so at own peril.
No wonder, women have proved best workers for defense or security intelligence gathering. This could explain why President Muammar Gadaffi of Libya preferred women power to men's for recruitment as bodyguards. So, why are women considered the weaker sex?
With such, it sounds great deal of capital for any successful negotiations. It would only be a matter of asking herself, “what?” Surely, women are bound to be decision makers anywhere and anyhow. Already, there are acceptable assertions to that regard –given the saying, “behind every successful man, there is a woman.”
As it is already happening, in future, all decisions would no longer just be bedroom-based -but in all spheres of human activity. Simply, it would be a woman’s availability that would matter -whether one or two of them -to cause an effect by her will.
But women are gradually coming to terms with the changing cultural and socioeconomic realities. It is very possible to find a woman entirely supporting a family without the help of a “man” -while at the same time married to “him”.
It would, therefore, be true that the so-called decisions men of any caliber make are actually women’s. Men could simply make any such decisions unconsciously. And so is a wave, this time round, called the strength or power of a woman. We could as well see cultures that earlier genetically discriminated women, get eroded. Should we expect emergence of men movements, thereafter, to advocate gender equity as women movement could have done?
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