Our phallocratic shame

The right-thinking men of this country were once again forced to hang their collective heads in shame. Why? A video emerged this week of taxi and combi louts harassing and stripping a young woman at the Gaborone Bus Rank.

The video, which naturally has gone viral across the various social media platforms, comes shortly after the one-year anniversary of the ‘I Shall Not Forget Movement’, a noble initiative established to protect young women from older, male predators.

In the video, dozens of delirious louts can be seen pursuing, taunting and heckling the young woman, grabbing at her and at some point stripping her, while a particularly vociferous cameraman eggs them on.  What the frenzied louts fail to understand the entire time is that their behaviour is criminal and not the young woman’s choice of dress.

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