Lerato and Hannington has a physical altercation on Tuesday night. A verbal argument turned abusive, and soon they were up in each other's faces, pushing and shoving. Soon Lerato was in one corner crying having been roughed up a bit.



Aftermath:
* Lerato and Hanington are not speaking
* Hannington derided by female housemates
* Hannington apologizes to all housemates
* Only other male housemate stands by Hannington
* Hannington considers leaving the house
* Big Brother suddenly remembers the rule book: no violence (verbal or physical) no alcohol


Did you watch it? I did. Is it fair Hannington is branded a 'woman beater' when the only female behaviour at the time of the altercation was the crying by Lerato after the rough up?

If a woman behaves like a man: crass, abusive, violent, fingers on faces, pushing; does she have the right to claim - I'm a woman - later?

Just thoughts...

the other day it was Meryl shouting expletives and throwing her hands in the air.
The unfortunate thing is that even in general man-woman altercations/disagreements, judges are invariably favourably biased towards women.
The man starts and can very rapidly move from 'guity' to 'innocent', while a 'woman' will cross, if at all, from 'innocent' to 'guilty' part slowly, leisurely.
The onus of the man to prove himself innocent therefore is as heavy as one trying to prove a woman guilty in a man/woman disagreement.
I don't envy Ha'ton.

Hii ni nini sasa??...

BBA all stars have been a disaster to say the least, on this particular incident l cant blame han'ton!!!!

"If you rattle a snake, you must be prepared to be bit", to paraphrase the Hon. John "hard-working" Michuki.

When I initially saw the clip, I reserved my judgment until I saw the highlight show. This altercation ladies and gentlemen was a culmination of a series of events leading us to seconds from disaster.

The said avocado on toothpicks was in a disagreeable mood the whole afternoon and was verbally abusing/hitting out at everyone including Code and Sheila. What I'm yet to figure out is why?

After the incident our Sheila was shouting, "You should never hit a woman", although from my observation my personal opinion is that Hannington pushed Lerato away when she stepped up to him all up in his face with her cigarette breath. He did not hit her.

This got me thinking, are we saying that as a society we have reached a point that no matter what a woman does to a man, he should not defend himself in anyway? Think extreme here, say you are walking along the street and a random woman spits in your face and when you walk away follows you taunting you, telling you to man up.

A woman who is well known and is a high-up in the NGO world told me that with all the focus being on the girl child, no one gives a damn about the boy child anymore because after all, he should behave like a man (whatever that means). This is in part contributing towards the breakdown of the traditional family setup as men are increasingly being pushed to the periphery.

I know its a bit of a stretch but I thought I'd put it out there.