I read BusinessDaily on occasion. Two male writers are being accused of being against women. Is it taboo for men to discuss women, please let me know whether I'm missing something

FIRST: Two weeks ago, Frank Njenga wrote an article about a woman who wants to confess about being abused by a respected uncle when she was a teenager. The problem it was over 30 years ago, she's long married and has two children.

In the advice given in the column, Dr. Njenga wondered what her real motive was so many years later. http://www.businessdailyafrica..../0/-/au2vpc/-/index.html


THEN: Only last week, Peter Mutua wrote an article about having too many women leaders in a firm. His opinion was if women constitute a significant majority of management in a workplace, the resulting corporate environment can be disturbing http://www.businessdailyafrica....80/-/bemgf2/-/index.html

Today a writer penned a reaction in an opinion piece alongside his column titled 'Women have proved their mettle as top CEOs, embrace them'; that among other accusations he's received in social media.

Every study done on women has been done by men. Do they really understand being a woman? Or who a woman really is? Maybe enough has not been said.
More women are enrolling in higher education than before, which will mean that they will also start taking up those same roles the men are taking especially in job market and business. I guess its time to embrace them from top to bottom.

That one by Dr. Njenga is just appalling. Jeez! Is that how he advises his patients?

In Wazua you even find fellows better than Dr. Njenga in a field they have never tried!!!!!

I have seen what Peter Mutua has described first hand. All the women in the lower ranks resigned or were constantly looking for work elsewhere in a certain dept headed by a woman with senior women managers as well.
On earth, the reality is different from feminist theory and empowerment. In many cases, women are uncommonly mean and bitchy to fellow women.

I agree. Most women are 'bitchy' to fellow women. But are men so kind to other men? Men are mostly involved in showmanship! The game is always a fight.

But the feminist idea isn't as widely spread as 'masculinity'. And what are the female boss's interests?

The feminist movement may have its follies, but isn't entirely unfounded.

My view...

I have a personal difference with Dr Njenga. Nevertheless, he queried the motive behind the woman's new 'deep urge to tell the truth'. He discounts our normal perception of truth as the begin-all-and-end-all and brings in the dimension of pure motive. And for the sake of the woman, he indicates that her support structures (health, spirituality, family) would be shaken to the core by this sword of truth.

I find Peter Mutua normally incisive. He does not say women cannot lead. His article shows overcompensating for female inequality can create dysfunctional organizations. His solution is gender balance - who can argue with that! Honestly I naively thought the more of a good thing the better.

Are these articles devoid of truth? I think not. There is some wisdom to be gleaned even if it is slight. I find the tweeters' summary judgement of the writing as 'Attacks against Kenyan women' to be too simplistic and therefore showing signs of intolerance.
It is a trait common with people with extremist leanings - a different opinion or a deviation from their ideology and it is an attack.
Women are not infallible; They wander into folly, just like men. But alas, a male writer makes this observation and a torrent of fury is unleashed. A dude can never say that women are capable of making bad leaders. What foolishness.
I wonder how they would have reacted if a woman had written the piece by that Peter dude.

I think it's fair to also say Men will always be a woman's hobby.

@ChumsQuest do you realise if I, as a man, attached a good natured link to a humorous video on women's breast Having a bad day? Need a laugh? Then here's something for you...

...it would likely be branded lewd, shallow, disrespectful to women, or why are men always obsessed about women's...? That my friend is the problem.


On a more balanced note, Chimamanda Adichie posits We should all be feminists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc

Dr Frank Njenga offers a half-hearted apology. Did Business Daily or feminists pressure him? Was he wrong all along, or unwittingly tolerate the rape?

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ALL acts of sexual abuse are, at all times criminal in nature, and must attract the full force of the law. There are no exceptions to the criminal nature of this act.