Hehehehe....My darling, precious, glorious, dignified, world-famous and heavenly celebrated Nigerian sisters,
A lot of you are sexually harassed daily
by men you come across but you aren’t even aware because of the general
ignorance of the female folk of what sexual harassment entails. And
also perhaps because an average female in this day and age feels that
the only way for her to be acceptable in a morally-decadent and mediocre
society like ours, is to be appraised on her beauty or sensuous looks.
This is the very reason most girls and women would rather have beauty
than brains. Who or what do we blame for such low self-esteem? This
would be discussed another day. Unfortunately beauty is fleeting and if
your content is not well nurtured and groomed, you would be tossed up
and down by life and end up unfulfilled. What a waste of life! We would
always be held responsible for our failure or success in life. No wonder
the scripture says, “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.”
Anyway,
sexual harassment won’t destroy you anymore because an enlightenment
campaign would be set up and because we have God’s backing and since His
kingdom is based on righteousness and justice, no lecturer found guilty
would go unpunished no matter how highly placed he is. And every
pharaohic lecturer is bound to drown in his own red sea just as was the
1988 case of a Gynaecology lecturer in one of Nigeria’s foremost
University Teaching Hospitals who was fond of coercing female students
to have sex with him. When the girls couldn’t take it anymore, they
reported him to the school authorities. To start with, he was dismissed
from teaching pending the outcome of the case. And subsequently had his
medical license withdrawn by the then Nigerian Medical Council now known
as the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria. So, why can’t the Council
of Legal Education or the NBA, ICAN, NCS, NSE and other professional
bodies do same? Perhaps, they haven’t been getting reports from victims.
Now, it’s time to speak up and we are assured those at the helm of
affairs would look into such cases and deal with offenders appropriately
because the Girls Club is poised to ensure justice prevails and life is
totally snuffed out of the dragon called sexual harassment.
If the word, lecherous, sounds strange
to you, it means having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.
You will agree with me that only a lecher would oppress female students
and cause them great discomfort if they don’t give in to his advances.
Simelane (2001) defines sexual
harassment as verbal comments, abuse, gestures or physical contact of a
sexual nature by an individual or a group which is judged by the
recipient(s) to have resulted in one or more of the following:
-Mental, physical and social discomfort.
-Interference with his/her work and/or academic performance.
This could result from the threatened
downgrading of marks, demotion, withholding of privileges and/or
dismissal as a result of the refusal of a reward for compliance.
-Creation of an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment for him/her on campus.
The victim or the harasser may be a male or female and does not have to be of the opposite sex.
According to the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Unwelcome Behaviour is the critical word.
Unwelcome does not mean “involuntary.”
A victim may consent or agree to certain
conduct and actively participate in it even though it is offensive and
objectionable. Therefore, sexual conduct is unwelcome whenever the
person subjected to it considers it unwelcome. Whether the person in
fact welcomed a request for a date, sex-oriented comment, or joke
depends on all the circumstances.
Sexual harassment includes the following:
- Actual or attempted rape or sexual assault.
- Unwanted pressure for sexual favours.
- Unwanted deliberate touching, leaning over, cornering, or pinching.
- Unwanted sexual looks or gestures.
- Unwanted letters, telephone calls, or materials of a sexual nature.
.Unwanted pressure for dates
.Unwanted sexual teasing, jokes, remarks, or questions
.Calling a girl or woman “sweetie”, “baby”, “honey” etc.
.Whistling at someone
.Cat calls and leering
To be continued.
Are you still engaging in pre-marital
sex? Each act devalues you! Your wonders are waiting to start. God is
waiting for you to become a Secondary virgin! You are most welcome on
board. The chastity campaign train and Girls Club is open for all girls
and ladies. Please text your name, age, school or occupation and State
of domicile to 07086620576.
The Girls Club of Nigeria is aimed at
influencing a positive change in the female folk and re-orientating the
Nigerian girl. Amongst other things, to promote and enhance the
development of girls by instilling a sense of self-worth, competence,
usefulness, belonging and influence while of course restoring
traditional moral values and encouraging the girls to toe the paths of
righteousness. If this generation can make amends, the next generation
will come out clean. Don’t you think so? I love you all and I think you
are all wonderful sisters!
For more inspiring articles and prayers
against sexual perversion (masturbation, lesbianism, addiction to
pornography and immoral thoughts etc.) prayers against ungodly soul-ties
and prayers for recovery of virtues please visit my blog www.temiloluokeowo.wordpress.com
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