Less
is more: How short is short?
Kwa nini mtu atembee uchi? ( Why would someone walk
around naked?)
Aje? (How?)
Uchi. (Naked)
Unamaanisha nini? (What do you mean?)
Si kutembea na nguo haijafunika magoti ama kifua na
mgongo ni uchi? (Walking wearing clothes which do not cover knees, bust and
back)
I disagreed.
My female pal was advocating for what she called
modest and decent dressing. I told her that dressing is relative. She said she
already knew that. I asked her what the beef she held against skimpy dressers.
“They distract men and trigger their testosterone. Men
lose focus and concentration before such girls/women.”
I weighed in: Don’t tell me you are the folks that
justify rape on account of victim’s dressing style.
She: I don’t but there is a boundary.
Me: Which boundary?
She: Did you see what the conductors did to a girl in Chuka
bus stage?
Me: No.
She: You should
have been there. She was stripped to the barest minimum. Were it not for women who threw lesos
her way she would have strutted her fundamentals naked.
Me: What! That is primitive. Why would anyone take the law in their own
hands? That is playing accuser, judge and executioner all in one. Mob justice. Such
accused can never find justice because you are hell bent to be biased and
subjective.
She: I don’t care who is stripped. Whether it is me or
my mother.
Me: Ati! Dunia imepasuka mahali.
She: People should learn to dress like human beings
not prostitutes. Did you see Miss Chuka change of wardrobe soon after winning
the beauty contest?
Me: You want a model to dress like a grandmother?
Hehee! She should expose her assets. After all they are the ones which earned
her the crown. She has brains too not just a bimbo.
She: So you have never been irritated by the dressing
codes of these campus chicks?
Me: I have. At times.
She: So…
Me: So what? What am I supposed to do? I respect the
rights and freedoms of others as long as they do not infringe on mine or that
of others. Whoever is offended should follow the law.
She: Meaning?
Me: Go to court. Go and tell the judge this and that
happened to you and table your evidence for consideration but not lynching some
peoples’ daughters in the name of conservativeness and decency.
She: Why should I go to court when I can do it myself there
and then?
Me: This is not Amazon juggle my friend. There is
democracy and human rights. You can’t trample on them like that.
She: What about the offending skimpy dressers? If they
were Ugandans they would have been arrested by police. Recently their parliament
passed anti miniskirt law. No more curves, cleavages and fleshes at the Pearl
of Africa.
Me: Uganda is not Kenya. Kenya runs on a different OS
of a constitution. It is not a one man’s show like UG.
She: Dressing depends on many factors like the context,
weather, time and mood. Fashion savvy individuals capture the theme of the
moment by combining colours creatively.
Me: That’s true. However let them be. By the way kwani
you bought them the clothes they are wearing to get an authority to dictate what
and how they wear?
She: No. Anyway am out. It was such a great
intellectual intercourse.
The
writer studies Bachelors of Arts Degree in Communication and Media at Chuka
University. He blogs at musyokangui.blogspot.com
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