Street Peeper Zimbabwe Street Peeper September 2017 | Page 69

As an academia and a woman, I've noticed
that I still don't have the same opportunities
as my male counterparts. Its as if when we
take one step forward we in turn take two
steps back and somehow we'll never cover up
the whole journey . its as if as the works
evolves, just as we're about to catch a break it
slips away right from our fingertips. We al-
ways almost catch it, and the next thing its
worlds away.
My heart bleeds each time I hear of a new
rape technique. Yet the woman is usually
blamed for being abused!!! I think women are
still looked down upon in society. This cuts
across all cultures but it's worse in Africans.
If a woman is divorced or a single mother so-
ciety calls her loose and will say it's her fault
she failed to please her husband. If she is an
independent career woman who holds a high
position in the corporate world society says
"she slept her way up". If she is abused physi-
cally or sexually society says it's her fault she
provoked her assailant. A woman walks in
putting on an outfit that is figure hugging and
shows off her beautiful figure and she is
'skimpy'. A man with the equivalent of such a
gorge body walks around shirtless and he is
eye candy ????. I wonder how the world
would react to a man being gangs raped and
the women claimed, " he was looking all sexy,
do he asked for it." And yet each day a woman
somewhere is faced with the same predica-
ment, and that's _normal_. And that measure
is used to *define* a woman? My heart bleeds.
I will however acknowledge the good that
has been done so far, a new era has definitely
dawned. But like any new day, a lot of hard
work still awaits. In a world where you find a
22 year old man feels too old to learn new
tricks and is stuck in a patriarchal way of
thought, we have a long way to go.