The problem is that they rarely engage seriously with the research and the available data, because doing so would force them to confront the assumptions their sense of superiority is built on 🥴
This country is no longer safe for women man!!
I just remembered how i was dressed in a gym set yesterday and i passed by this group of men who kept shouting and laughing and saying soo proudly some of the most shameful things I’ve ever heard about my womanhood 💔
The girl child has been failed by her govt in SA, and you & I are also being failed by ours. By your own logic, you and I should be ashamed too. But that unsafety wasn’t her choice, just like it isn’t ours.
Your original tweet argued Rwanda is safer than South Africa (even though the initial tweet had nothing to do with safety), and I might be inclined to agree. All I’m saying is there’s a better way to present that than shaming.
That said, your tweet made me confront my own bias.
There is a sense of safety you & I feel at home, & maybe a girl in SA doesn’t feel that way every day. But you saw how quickly that can be stripped from us; all it took was one video from our police. It’s been 10+ days of us asking our own govt to address us, & silence.