Parents,where will we hide our daughters?

I would have written about something totally different today, but there is something so tragic that happened the previous week, I feel compelled to add my voice to the debate #mydressmychoice.

I'm sorry for sounding emotional but I did cry when I watched the two clips. It was like watching a woman being raped with hooligans in the background celebrating, and to pierce the sword even deeper, there was a passerby who went ahead to record the horror. I really hope the reason the person recording did it, was to highlight the issue with an aim of calling for mass protest. Anyway, if you are a woman or are a mother of a girl-child, that clip was particularly disturbing.

That woman could have been any of us. What those men did to those innocent women is so shattering, if they do not repent of that heinous act and change their ways, may God add more wood in the eternal hell fire that will consume them! Whatever happened has been condemned by majority of the voices and there was even a public protest on Monday that was championed by a group I respect and commands a huge following - Kilimani Mums.

The saddest bit about all this is that God forbid -after the dust has settled and we go back to our normal lives again, next year or the next... it will happen again.

Yes, there are laws like the Sexual Offences Act that are meant to deter such acts, but gender-based violence continues. With this sad reality, I am concerned not about my safety, but that of my daughter.

I am just wondering, where will I hide my daughter so that she will not be an easy prey to such barbarians when her body has blossomed and she feels like flaunting what her mama gave her? Where will she wear that mini skirt and feel safe? Where will she wear those tight pants and a spaghetti top and feel safe?

As long as sexually starved goons are idling away in the estates, and at all PSV stages catcalling anything in a skirt, a woman will never be safe. I mean there is the school of thought that argues that if women dressed more decently, they would not face such humiliation. But then again there's the argument of #mydressmychoice and where do you draw the line between decent and indecent? I mean to an extrovert, the idea of decent may be totally be different from an introvert's. I could go on. But it just boils down to it's not safe out there for the womenfolk. May God protect us.