Why these women marches don't make sense to me

By Josepha Jabo

These women marches, which sprung up in different parts of the world, during President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day on Friday, January 20, 2017, don't make sense to me.

In America, so-called female Hollywood stars have taken the forefront of these marches that are supposedly fighting for Women's Rights.

Ashley Judd narrated a lewd poem the contents of which I cannot repeat here. Charlize Theron cried in public. The worst comments, at one of the women marches, came from the pop star Madonna who had the nerve to say, "I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House!"

Throughout her career Madonna has always employed the ‘shock factor' to get attention; but now she is going to be investigated by the Secret Service for her reckless remarks. I also saw on Twitter, at one of the Women Marches, one of the protestors selling black t-shirts with a picture of Hillary and Bill Clinton with the caption ‘Madam President' and ‘First Dude!'

I am a woman, but I am not a feminist because feminism seeks to undermine men and make them effeminate. Men should be masculine and women should be feminine. There should be no gender or role reversal.

Feminism has gone too far.

It has reached a point that any man who stands up for his fellow men is immediately branded a misogynist by aggressive feminists! The saying, ‘What a man can do, a woman can do better,' stems from a feministic viewpoint, which is wrong because in Genesis 3:16 (NIV) God made woman subservient to man when he told Eve, ‘Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.'

 It is evident Donald Trump cares about women as equally as he does men, for when he was addressing America, in his inauguration speech, he said, "January 20th, 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer."

Ironically, their slogan is ‘End the Hate' but they are the ones who are being hateful towards Trump. If these protesters are so patriotic, and if what these feminists are doing is so noble and right then why are they resisting authority, smashing shop windows, destroying property in the cities and getting themselves arrested?

They are wasting their time. They will march until they get tired.

The writer works with Uganda Media Centre