The vast footprint of toxic masculinity

At a political rally in 2018/19, a local opposition politician, while campaigning in an area particularly gripped with high numbers of sexual gender based violence, rape and child molestation, when addressing his opponent’s dangerous relationships with Western and Eastern economies used a shocking analogy to which not many batted an eyelid.

He likened the president’s dangerous affiliations to a woman who goes out for a good time, without money, enjoys drinking on a man’s account (the man having willfully offered), and decides she does not want to sleep with him, as a reward or payment for the drinks, and when the man rapes her, she takes issue with it - suggesting that in that instance she shouldn’t because “she asked for it” by accepting the drinks.