Are indecently dressed girls supposed to get all the flak for this ill? There are a lot of people to blame too but all our efforts at stemming this ill have been fruitless because the peoples opinions are borne out of hypocrisy and double standards. Do you think if the response scantly dressed girls got were so negative they’ll still continue to flash thighs, skin and breasts? No. Indecent dressing simply thrives because the men condole it, appreciate it and even promote it only to turn around to condemn it in newspapers and public fora. If a girl dressed so scandalously got toasted or was even given lifts by ten men in a single day, why should such a girl want to turn out properly dressed since on a day she does she doesn’t even get a look from a single man?
Perhaps we have attacked this issue from a wrong perspective badgering these immature women to change. Why don’t we try a different tact? Badgering the boys and the men to change their orientation and reduce their overt fascination with the near naked female forum?
Perhaps if we did this then the ladies would realise that the only way to attract a man is too dress decently but how possible is it when men and women are only attracted to evil.
Perhaps it is difficult because their parents dress the same way to their social events. This unhealthy competition with the younger generation might continue for eternity since the younger girls and ladies are trying very hard to snatch their husbands so brazenly, these women are really at a loss at what to do.
Perhaps these oldies are seemingly relapsing into adolescence succumbing to the need to feel young all over again, a craving which can only be achieved through fashion and cosmetics.
Perhaps we have two classes of women both struggling to outdo themselves to get naked so who will correct the other.
Perhaps it’s the need for our men and women to belong to the “enlightened classed that supposedly live abroad” thereby trading our culture and values for their way of life. Remember we are Africans and we have a way of life.
In this age of permissiveness we must all change our ways for our moral imperative not to be totally upended.
Perhaps its time for fathers to start behaving like gentlemen not lechers, mothers like ladies and not courtesans before their daughters can behave like good girls and not the whores they are increasingly beginning to take after.
Or perhaps …………
Otokiti Olaoluwa Mr.