16 days: Are you secretly abusive?

” It is always important to remember that the right to dignified treatment is a perennial right; it must not be compartmentalised and placed on some calendar at times. While the “16 days” are important, it is most important to remember, every day, that we are our women and children. Our women and children define who and what we are as a people.

The book of Genesis, the first chapter, records the genesis of humanity according to the Priestly writers or redactors. Let us draw our attention to the 26th verse where Elohim calls out to what may be called the Divine Council; “let us create humankind in our own image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion…” Whatever it is worth, we have been created not in one image but in a somewhat corporate and communal image, not of one divine being but of several. This seems to suggest that from the genesis of life, diversity was intended.