Humanist

I think that an arm snake tattoo would be a could choice for me. As push back and symbolic display of woman empowerment.

Kind of dare come close with ill intentions, I will bite. And my bite could be fatal to you.

Yes, an arm snake tattoo on the arm of a woman my stature and my position, would drive the morality police bat crazy! Particularly, those who feel power through legislating how a woman dresses.

My arm snake tattoo would say to them: I am a woman who likes to dress and adorn myself in a manner that pleases me first and then others.

If it pleases others, it is okay. If it does not it is also okay. What pleases me I learned through the way that I have been socialized into an empowered woman.

When I dress up, I am primarily thinking about what pleases me the most and what might please the ones that matter to me. I am most certainly not thinking about every single Ugandans’ likes and dislikes.

I am aware that I am beautiful and that men find me attractive. Men’s attraction to me is both scientific – biological make up and it is behavioral – socialization make up.

I was born a woman and that men will find me attractive is inevitable, it is beyond my control, especially when it comes to dress codes.

For some men, certain fashions that I wear make me more attractive to them, even though they are long dresses; and for others it is mini-skirts.

I should not be put in the position, as the ant-pornography law has done, of guessing what dress style will be sexually exciting for each and every man in Uganda, for it is an endeavor in futility.

Profound learning from the North Darkota Indians is that basing laws on the behavior of people, without fully investigating why they are behaving that way is a fantastic recipe for inappropriate laws.

In the case of the anti-pornography law – harmful laws.

Men behaving badly does not form a basis for new legislation and moreover, which blames the victim. Reportedly, several women have since been assaulted by men for wearing ‘sexually exciting clothing’.

For all those Members of Parliament who saw it fit to waste our resources on such legislation you have made Uganda worse off.

The resources could have been better spent on refurbishing Mulago National Referral Hospital and other medical facilities countrywide. And we would not have had to borrow money to do so.

In addition to making the place that I live dangerous – uncultured men on the rampage, you have made me and the future generations of Ugandans more indebted.

Adding on to Uganda’s debt burden, thus keeping us in the vicious cycle of poverty, to assuage you morality police egos!