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The things that Kenyan women would do if it werent for men

Sally Boyani By Sally Boyani Published on: November 10, 2017 07:26 (EAT)

Kenyan women on Friday took to Twitter to expose their most deepest, naked desires in heart-breaking confessions of what they would do in a world without harassment.

Women  all over the world have been sharing heart-breaking experiences in the hands of men following a slew of sexual assault allegations against famous men.

Consequently, it has given women courage to open up on how they live life under this cloud.

Twitter user @Omalicha started a thread asking; Ladies, in a Utopian world, if harassment was nonexistent, what would you do that you cannot do now?
Me: taking walks at night.

The responses were many and heartbreaking. We sampled a few…

 -Wear what I want to wear and jav. Usually take a cab when I do.

–I would also like to be able to sit at a bar alone and have a drink and not be bothered or worried and leave comfortably.

-I think moving around freely at night or in deserted, random spaces would be my favourite thing to do. 

-Going out at night & sitting in a park watching life around me. Dressed in a dera & sandals.  Also, not having to think twice, thrice or 10 times about what clothes I’ll wear every single day.

 –sitting by the beach at night with you, smoking a zoot and laughing our heads off as we watch the waves WITHOUT having to have a man for “protection”
 -To be left alone. My response to your greeting isn’t an invitation to invade my space.

6. 8

 -I don’t know where to start but not looking over my shoulder every time I’m walking alone would be a relief. Also wearing shorts and short dresses whenever I please without being catcalled or grabbed would be nice.

7. 

–Relax my shoulders and enjoy the moment more. I realized whenever I am in a public place, my body is tense. As though I am always ready for an altercation. I would dance more than I already do and would 5EVER.

 -I’d love for my mother to stop telling me to wear dresses above the knee because “you never know”.

9. 7h7 hours ago

 -Fall asleep on the bus and not wake up to a hand on my boobs

10. 1h1 hour ago

 -I would never be late simply because I have to wait for the next jav that has at least one other woman.

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