Award-winning Nigerian broadcaster and journalist, Funmi Iyanda on Thursday, September 9, 2015 spoke up against vices such as rape and the continuous harassment of ladies.
She cited instances when she was harassed while she worked at a national television station and at church for the flimsiest of reasons.
The 44-year-old also attributed some of the aforementioned vices especially rape to the culture of patriarchy.
Check out her tweets:
Once a live caller said to me on TV "this one you are always talking about rape, just tell us you have been raped and let's hear word".
— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015
Through my 8 years in national TV l was constantly harassed to cover up even when fully clothed and some states in the north won't air "me".
— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015
I genuinely hated being held responsible for the people's reactions to my femininity. Sometimes my collarbone was the offending part.
— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015
A certain show with my friend @AgathaAmata was never aired because she wore a long dress that didn't cover her arms.
— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015
It is never about the dress, I was punished by the church as a teenager for wearing seductive hair, exact same hair another girl wore.
— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015
My greatest pain is that a decade later l'm still mediating same arguments about rape, feminism, humanity and tolerance to a new generation.
— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015
I never forgot that "seductive hair" experience. I was 17. The church elder, male, took a pair of scissors and cut my hair at the root.
— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015
A culture of patriarchy props rape. Men as well as women suffer under patriarchy. That unacknowledged suffering often underpin rape culture.
— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015
Patriarchy positions men to mimic God. Men are not gods, they fail. The sense of powerlessness prompt violence. Rape is a crime of power.
— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015
It is in the best interests of both women and MEN to unbundle patriarchy and organise society to function for progress and quality of all.
— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015
