Men react to vulgar messages as Malawi women protest over mini-skirt stripping

February 2, 2020 Owen Khamula - Nyasa Times 48 Comments

Men have reacted furiously over messages on placards carried by some women activists during peaceful protest marches against women harassment for wearing mini-skirts  by gang of unemployed youths and sidewalk vendors.

Some of the placards
Women protests mini-skirts attacks

The marches follow the harassment of a woman in Blantyre this week by mostly street vendors over the woman’s wearing of a miniskirt.

Some women wore mini-skirts and bum shorts to the demonstration to show their outrage.

In some of the placards, the messages read, ‘I didn’t come from your rib. You came from my vagina’ and ‘The mere existence of your penis should not be a threat to my life.’

Some men have taken up in various social media platforms to condemn the strong language in the messages by the women activists.

The men said freedom of speech should not be at the expense of Malawi’s rich traditions and culture.

One sign was held up during the gathering with the words: “Vendor: Today I buy from you, tomorrow you undress me?”

In Mzuzu, the protesters have reacted angrily after the council chief executive officer McCloud Kadammanja delegated a security guard to receive a petition.

The protesters said the chief executive officer was not serious on a very important issue.

Until 1994, women in the deeply conservative southern African country were banned from wearing trousers or mini-skirts under the autocratic rule of Hastings Banda.

Men were also banned from having long hair.

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48 replies on “Men react to vulgar messages as Malawi women protest over mini-skirt stripping”

  1. Don’t worry Men, These are not wifes. they are prostitutes fighting for their rights. WHAT LANGUAGE DO YOU EXPECT SAVAGES LIKE THESE TO DISPLY ?

  3. we condem harassment to women. however, the protesters should also know the majority of men conderns such behaviour. therefore thier massages should also not offend to all men. this defeats the whole agenda which is to educate those irresponsible men.

  5. Do these men go to lake where women wear bikinis and swimwear? Malawi is very backward. No wonder this country is one of the poorest in the world. Instead of thinking about which economic activities to do, people are busy undressing our sisters, daughters and mothers. A woman has a right to wear whatever she wants on her body. Mukufuna azivala ma uniform ngati azimayi amvano?

    1. You have rightly said “at the lake” then the onus is on you. Attire fit events. You can`t find a lady wearing a long dress yochita kusesa pansi akamayenda at the lake.

    2. You have mentioned at the Lake where people are swimming but that should not be a tool of encouraging these women to dress anyhow.Remember,if you don’t respect yourself no one will respect you.In those days we use to know who the prostitutes are but nowadays who can’t even know.The problem is we just like to copy and paste everything in Malawi.There are places where they can put on their useless mini skirts than on a public domain.We have seen celebrities the way they dress,not just anyhow.

    3. Do they wear bikinis and swimsuits in the streets? There is a dress code for different occasions.
      Take time to interview neighbors of this mother of three woman. They are disgusted and the children are laughing stock for friends.

  6. According to us malawians she over did it but if you sexually harrased her like we saw in that clip then who is wrong?

  7. Every society is governed by more than one set of laws. There are moral, social, cultural and religious laws in every society as well as the legal code. A reasonable individual understands the need to balance between these laws. For example if religion allows murder, should one break the legal code. In the same way if the way if the legal code allows nudity should one break the unwritten social code? This woman broke a cultural and religious law and is guilty of that, these men responded by breaking a legal code and they are guilty of that. Noone is innocent here.

    1. Perhaps you must write down this cultural and religious laws so that the women are aware which laws they are breaking.

  9. All you stupid men! Go fuck off!!!! Women are being attacked, harassed and raped, and you care about words! Machende anu nonse monga mwa aMchacha! Fuck you all!

    I am a man myself! Fuck you! STOP HARASSING WOMEN! Control your penises and stop harassing women and asking for license to rape them you pieces of shits! You aren’t animals! Control your dicks!

  11. SHAME ON YOU MALAWI MEN!!! WHETHER ONE WRITES @PENIS OR KATUNDU WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH YOU, ONE NEED TO RELEASE THEIR ANGER AND FRUSTRATION. IF YOU ARE REAL MEN WHO RESPECT YOUR MOTHERS ,SISTERS AND DAUGHTERS AND WIVES, THIS STRIPPING IS ENOUGH TO BRING ANGER AND MOVE YOU TO TAKE ACTION BY JOINING HANDS WITH THE WOMEN, IMAGINE IT WAS YOUR DAUGHTER WHO WAS BEING STRIPPED.
    BECAUSE YOU DON’T KNOW PEOPLE’S UPBRINGING SO DON’T BE QUICK TO CONDEMN. WE DRESS BASED ON WHAT WE HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO!!

  12. While not condoning the sad behaviour of those men, we need to appreciate the fact that some women amaziyamba Dala. It’s been reported that the lady harrassed was the first to harass others with her ubecomely behaviour and not necessarily miniskirt. Now we see some people taking advantage of the incident without proper analysis carrying stupid placards. Where will me the women be without a seed. Sometimes we are so arrogant as if we brought ourselves into existence. It’s a shame

  13. This is 2020 Malawian men should have self control period ,move with time please, when you see such things,u can even remove your eyes if u don’t want to see such things. People think differently.And these are last days it’s written in the Bible.Anything can happen beyond your thinking these days.Women will be women and they love to look beautiful and they will try any dress code, they are moving with time.Stop this backwards thinking brothers.It is big companies who are manufacturing these new fashions in town.

    2. Inu amalawi zomwe mukuchitazi sukunga mwambo wathu wachimalawi kumalemba zolawula. musaganize kuti mukuwerenga nokha. nawo akulu akulu aboma, agogo, amayi. abambo anu akuwerenga. lemekezani ntundu wathu please. ndangodzudzula chabe ine ndimakhala ku Mozambique, koma ndimawerenga masiku onse Site ya Nyasatimes.com. Zikomo

  14. Women, walking naked in public cannot be a right; that’s satanic. If you think its a right to expose your nudity do it again. Where have your manners gone?

    1. REGARDLESS OF HOW SHE DRESSED, THOSE MORONS HAD NO RIGHT TO UNDRESS HER. SHE IS NOT THEIR WOMAN SO THEY HOW SHE DECIDES TO DRESS IS NOBODY’S BUSINESS.

    3. Akazi adziwe kuti zovala zili ndi malo ake ndi nthawi yake. nchafu zina musamayanike panja they become public consumption. Nkhati nchafu yako ili golide bwino kuibisa kuti akulemekeze.

  16. While the savagery of the men who accosted the lady deserves condemnation in strongest terms, the shebeen language use by the women, some of whom have the reputatation of descent women, is very unbecoming. Shame on you ladies of substance.

  17. Our grandmothers knew what they were talking about when they schooled young girls not to show their legs above the knee because this disturbed the opposite sex. Wearing mini skirts or revealing dress disturbs the other sex and it should be borne in mind that peoples’ levels of thinking are diverse and you can’t just brush this off by telling men to zip their pants.
    Please mothers be tough with our little sisters otherwise we will question their upbringing which may be a negative reflection on you.

    1. On fact for some stupid men as soon as they see women’s parts they presume should be hidden, the brains descend from the skull to the chiuno, especially chinena and start behaving like dogs. Without shame

  18. A right is right so long as it does not infringe other rights too.Un dressing women on public is wrong.same as dressing on shabe min-skairts in public is wrong.Malawians should understand that dressing are meant for suitable occasions.eg a night dress is suitable for night function,wedding dress for wedings,bombas suitable for under wair and a trouser coveres it.same with mi-skirts for dancing and other sporting activities or bedroom not public places.Women should understand that some of the dress codes they put on,infringes Mens rights.Ladies nowaday does not understand that men have gone violent because of dwindling standard culture in ladies.

  19. Ndiyetu muzingoyenda maliseche ngati nyama zopanda mzimu kuti anthu aziona zomwe mumafuna kuti muonetsezo. How would you advise your daughters to dress respectfully when you as a mother are in the forefront breaking the dress code? You lose your diginity. Inenso ndine mayi koma tisanamizane apa, zina zimanyanya. Freedom of speech izikhala ndi malire. Kumeneko ndi kutengera freedom of speech pam’gong’o. I remember a certain UDF polititian was mocking AFORD’s V sign that yemwe amagwiritsa ntchito that sign watukwana mayi wake. People reacted angrily. What more ndi kutchula mayina a ziwalo zobisika. Yes, men came from that part of your body but do you have to literary tell and show them kuti unatulukira apa? What a shame women have become! Mind you, I am not on the part of the vendors, but fellow women, ulemu ndi wekha! No wonder you dress thus even when going to church, kufuna kukagwetsa abusa, akalephere kulalikira. Last days indeed. Shame!

  20. The women did nothing wrong but express what was in them. What ” deep tradition”? . Does deep tradition involve undressing women. Shame on Malawian men because you have failed to stand with yours mothers and sisters in their abuse. Maybe if a group of men decided to join the demos, the wording would have been different. When you remain silent you are part of the problem. YES Malawian men, you are the problem. Why didn’t a group of ” well meaning men” mobilise themselves to rescue her quickly. BECAUSE THEY DO NOT EXIST.

    1. Inunso khalani chete apa… Me and I can’t allow any of my relative to dress like that and go out into the public. Even if it was my mother. Everything has its own limit… Olo uhule uli ndi malo ndi nthawi yake yopangila… Anamuchita bwino hule uyu mwina ana ake axapulumuka sazatengera za uhule wakewo.

      2. It is you Mr. Real Everton who does not deserve to speak. if I were the editor of this page I wouldn’t have published this rubbish you are thinking

  21. Who has allowed such words to pass to the general public. Paja sensorship board inatha. Ma rights amenewo.

    2. When you play with fire, it burns you.

      Simply put, women don’t play with fire. Men don’t hate women. We love women and hate disgusting women

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