AFRO-NETS> Ban on mini-skirts in schools (8)

["G. CLAQUIN" <matsicla@intnet.cf>]

Ban on mini-skirts in schools (8)
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Dear afro-net readers, 

I feel a little puzzled and embarrassed by this discussion on  
mini-skirts. We all know that this kind of banning is never effective 
(as for abortion) and can have  very dangerous  side effects. In this 
case I would say that, as very often, it is putting the  blame on the 
women,  accused of being the cause for ...for what ? For unsafe safe 
practice, for male  thinking of her as  an object created for his 
pleasure, for being raped ? So we clearly (the country leader and 
people in the discussion) miss the point.

But is the real point to help people being exterminated by this 
disease or is it to impose moral values through the distress of the 
AIDS epidemic? I find intellectually dishonest to advance the 
respect of local legislation and human  responsibility to try  to 
insert a religious agenda related to sexual activity outside mar-
riage.
Besides the Christian religion has been imposed, very often 
violently and racistly, to Africans. Those times of cultural oppres-
sion
should cease. All who know a little bit of real humanity and African  
reality know  perfectly that AIDS will not be fought by those kind of 
outdated religious concept.


Finally, I can understand that, confronted to the tremendous impact 
of the AIDS epidemic,  governments and  individuals look in every 
direction to try to find solutions; but we hear more and more fre-
quently about legislating concerning moral values and sexual prac-
tice, 
which I find misleading and  dangerous apart from its ineffective-
ness.

Dr G. Claquin Bangui RCA 
mailto:matsicla@intnet.cf


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