Patriarchy by Thato Moeti
A year ago, mid August 2016, I was walking down the streets of Hillbrow, reaching to a point where I felt was a downfall. A woman of two children(girls) was literally chased out of a small space she called home. Reason being that she went against the rules of serving a husband as a woman should, doing some duties that she was never comfortable in doing. Which led to her going out in different places, JOB HUNTING. To this desire she got herself sleeping in the streets with two innocent soully children. Pity, I felt it was not in my place to interfere until now.
A few days after that, I went out of my house, dressed in my number one pair of trousers, walking in a way I call a jumpy walk,feeling all confident and happy in my favourite colours. I bumped into some old ladies talking about how they wouldn’t let their daughters dress like that, that they felt I cross-dressed. It got to me but I thought hey that’s how they feel, I cannot change one’s opinion.
These moments struck me in such a way that opened my eyes of how indirectly abused we are. We don’t take notice of the little things that happen around us.
Women out there are still suffering from Gender Inequality. Some don’t realise this because it is how they were raised to behave, “MAN OF HOUSE”, how irrational. In my own knowing I never heard of anyone credited of being the world’s best judge in analyzing people. Why judge one based on the little they do, how they behave and what doesn’t please you.
In the 1800s, black woman did most of the domestic work and not labors like mining. All the limited opportunities because she IS a woman. I say that all the woman in South Africa facing inequality, people out there being judged of what they cannot change and what they can change but enjoy doing or feel comfortable in, are to protest for their Right to Equality and Freedom (AGAINST STEREOTYPES), a Right that we all know is being violated.
This may precisely deserve a protest, having people chanting on the streets for their rights, peacefully, not giving up until our decisions are met. Police need to protect us, almost every human being is always affected by stereotypes, you may run away from it but it will always be there to haunt you, people around you, the media. Anyone and everyone is welcome to join, our actual target is the constitution for putting down something on the map that always leads us in a complex fourway. There must be a way to stop all this, if heads are to build one, perhaps we’d probably reach a stage in which we can finally sit down and say we did it.
By Thato Moeti
Age 16
New Nations School
A few days after that, I went out of my house, dressed in my number one pair of trousers, walking in a way I call a jumpy walk,feeling all confident and happy in my favourite colours. I bumped into some old ladies talking about how they wouldn’t let their daughters dress like that, that they felt I cross-dressed. It got to me but I thought hey that’s how they feel, I cannot change one’s opinion.
These moments struck me in such a way that opened my eyes of how indirectly abused we are. We don’t take notice of the little things that happen around us.
Women out there are still suffering from Gender Inequality. Some don’t realise this because it is how they were raised to behave, “MAN OF HOUSE”, how irrational. In my own knowing I never heard of anyone credited of being the world’s best judge in analyzing people. Why judge one based on the little they do, how they behave and what doesn’t please you.
In the 1800s, black woman did most of the domestic work and not labors like mining. All the limited opportunities because she IS a woman. I say that all the woman in South Africa facing inequality, people out there being judged of what they cannot change and what they can change but enjoy doing or feel comfortable in, are to protest for their Right to Equality and Freedom (AGAINST STEREOTYPES), a Right that we all know is being violated.
This may precisely deserve a protest, having people chanting on the streets for their rights, peacefully, not giving up until our decisions are met. Police need to protect us, almost every human being is always affected by stereotypes, you may run away from it but it will always be there to haunt you, people around you, the media. Anyone and everyone is welcome to join, our actual target is the constitution for putting down something on the map that always leads us in a complex fourway. There must be a way to stop all this, if heads are to build one, perhaps we’d probably reach a stage in which we can finally sit down and say we did it.
By Thato Moeti
Age 16
New Nations School
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