130,000 little boys in Kenya will recieve 6 weeks training to sacrafice their safety to protect girls from violence. Nobody will be trained to protect boys. Girls won't be trained to protect anyone.

jo939 · 2015-03-25T13:59:25+00:00

HOW NOBLE OF HIM TO HAVE BEEN STABBED TO DEATH PROTECTING SOMEONE WHO WILL NEVER VALUE HIM AS A PERSON

prybarn · 2015-03-25T15:25:26+00:00

And on 2x they're deleting comments for QUOTING THE ARTICLE to show this.

prybarn · 2015-03-25T15:27:24+00:00

girls have their own shout: "I'm dangerous"

Yeah, I'm sure teaching boys that their lives have no value compared to girls, while teaching girls to chant "I'm dangerous" will turn out just fine.

2015-03-25T18:37:31+00:00

Sexual Abuse of School Age Children: Evidence from Kenya

Abstract

Student unrest that sometimes culminates in violent expressions have had a long history in Kenyan schools. Recent evidence, however, points to new expressions of abuse on children. There is concern that an ethos of gendered violence often expressed by sexual subjugation of girls by boys is getting institutionalised within Kenyan Schools. The rise in incidents of reported crimes of a sexual nature and the periodic mass sexual violence directed at girls within learning institutions attest to threatened sexual safety in Kenyan schools today. This paper examines the extent of sexual abuse against school children in Kenya and reasons attributed to it. It is anchored on a study conducted in 10 districts purposefully selected because they represented populations that are socio-economically more vulnerable and exhibit lower school participation. Data was collected from 70 schools. The paper makes reference to data collected from 1,279 and 1,206 children who responded to items on sexual harassment and unwanted sex respectively. Two thirds of the respondents were girls. According to the findings 58 of every 100 children have been sexually harassed while 29% boys and 24% girls reported to have been forced into unwanted sex. The main perpetrators of the violence were mentioned as peers while the home featured as the most unsafe place. The causal factors posited are analysed along two themes: those that play a contributory function and those rooted in the socio-cultural context. The study recommends for a reinstitution of sexuality education, in a comprehensive manner, as a strategy of providing sexual safety education

2015-03-25T17:14:18+00:00

Feminists like when they say that they want to eliminate gender roles. All of their rhetoric indicates that they want to maintain the primary gender role for men -- that of protect and sacrificial lamb.

Thinking men should be able to wear skirts is not eliminating male gender roles.

2015-03-25T20:07:57+00:00

http://np.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/304qwk/kenyan_schoolboys_save_girls_from_rape/cppro69?context=3

I already posted quite a bit about it in this thread. This article is complete agenda-driven feminist bullshit.

If you take a closer look at the article you'll see that it is pure propaganda full with feminist buzzwords:

Across the dusty compound, girls have their own shout: "I'm dangerous ... Don't touch my body ... Respect my body."

"The girls have become strong," she said. "The boys are trying to accept it also. They realise that these our sisters. We need to help them grow."

What the fuck? So strong that they actually need boys of course to come to their defense.

The story about the toddler was probably just a made-up hit piece. They didn't even bother finishing it. What actually happened? Oh, "they confronted him". Was he persecuted? We won't ever know. Something tells me that a child molester in a Kenyan slum is not unlikely to be found with his guts inside out but that wouldn't fit the narrative here.

Psychoshy1101 · 2015-03-25T22:08:27+00:00

Or we can just teach everybody to try to stop violence in general. That should work out better

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baserace · 2015-03-26T03:19:11+00:00

The political reach of Feminism is becoming scary.

The motto for girls is, "Respect My Body." The motto for boys is, "Sacrafice My Body."

I can't find that in the linked article. Do you have some other source?

ARedthorn · 2015-03-26T09:16:56+00:00

Victim-blaming is bad, but bystander-blaming is acceptable.

She didn't take precautions, but that's her right (and somehow empowering)... and suggesting that she should- or even could- learn to defend herself is wrong.

So, meanwhile, we'll train (indoctrinate) boys to put their lives at risk to defend her instead... And shame them if they don't do so.

She has no responsibility to protect herself, it's on everyone else.

2015-03-26T10:56:33+00:00

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chavelah · 2015-03-25T23:59:01+00:00

"One in four women and girls in Nairobi's most dangerous slums has been sexually assaulted, Ujamaa said.

Its 'No Means No Worldwide' programme started teaching self-defence to Nairobi schoolgirls in 2010.

Ujamaa expanded the programme to include boys that same year, as the girls said that the main perpetrators of rape were their boyfriends.

Many of the schoolboys start out with very negative attitudes towards women, the trainers found, believing that it is legitimate to rape girls who they take on expensive dates or who are out after dark.

Before the class, more than 80 percent of boys said that girls wearing miniskirts were inviting boys to have sex with them. Afterwards, it dropped to 30 percent, Ujamaa's data showed.

"It's because of the way they have been brought up," Omondi said."

Wow, what a shitty program, responding to the reality that most sexual violence is partner violence by engaging with and educating, rather than villianizing and isolating, the perpetrators.

ARE YOU PEOPLE CRAZY? Have you ever been to a non-Western country? How can you be opposed to this program?

2015-03-25T13:54:06+00:00

Full disclosure: DNRA.

Question: can we rightly condemn this practice from our places outside Kenyan society?

I am legitimately curious because if Kenyan society rewards males for their protection the way Western society used to for ours, then this could easily be a good thing if not taken to extremes. Men are stronger than women, after all, and evolutionary psychology teaches us that the drive for males to protect females is written into us at the genetic level.

I am not without criticism, though. I would very much like to see those girls rounded up and put into a basic self defense course. Nobody should be defenseless. And I detest the "sacrifice my body" motto.

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