Christmas is here again and as usual new clothes have to be sewn. I needed to get to my tailor's shop to check how far she had gone in sewing my children's' clothes. I didn't want to drive so I decided to take a cab.
As I waited I watched a little argument between a young woman and an okada rider going on across the street from where I stood. Before I could get a hang of what was going on, this woman had picked up a rock and hurled it at the okada rider's head! As in, I couldn't believe what I had just witnessed. Thank God that he was wearing his helmet otherwise, I would have been singing a different song here.
The man had wanted to leave the woman and ride off when she was running her mouth but the attack made him park his bike and check for bruises and possibly confront the woman. People there tried to appease him, "leave am, na woman." "You know how they behave." "No vex oga, na woman."
Apparently he calmed down, entered his okada and rode off while the woman continued to run her mouth. She then engaged in a verbal war with anyone that cared to caution her and then later stormed off.
We women sometimes think that it is ok to go violent against a man because we can do it and get away with it. From what happened, people were begging the man to ignore her simply because the perpetrator is a woman. It is excusable for a woman to behave violently but it is absolutely inhumane cruel and cowardly for a man to do same?
Assuming that the whole scenario above was turned around, I'm sure that that man would have been called all sorts names and probably beaten too.
Not to pardon any form of violence but i can't help but defend the man who retaliated by hitting back. He is not hitting because he just wants to hit a woman but because another human being hit him and he needed to defend himself.
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