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RAPE, CONSENT AND THE HYPOCRISY OF DOUBLE STANDARDS

I do not watch bbnaija but I have been seeing the issue trending online about the housemate who was disqualified for sexually molesting a fellow housemate. This trending issue sparked off the debate both on social media and local television about the given consent or not hashtag.

Well rape is not a pleasant experience and no woman should be raped no matter what or sexually abused.
However I am concerned that the organizers of the show deemed it fit to react to what they termed an infringement on a woman's right but turned a blind eye to the perverse and immoral conduct of its other housemates.

Women's rights have no place in a world bereft of morals if not you confuse the men. How is it alright for others to do some things and get away with it and for some others to get disqualified for doing the same things. Abuse is also a vice.
So if immorality is accepted at all then human rights or women's rights is like expecting a lion not to eat meat because it is a female sheep.

I want to see a society where all women would be respected and all not some will be so respected because of their virtues. No woman should be a prostitute or anything like that to a man. Let us have a society where Values would be more recognized than human rights because human rights is only a subset, Values cover all. We all go to church and to the mosque. Why can't we see a reflection of that in our everyday lives even in entertainment. Then there would be no need for women's rights.
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