Africa-Press – Mauritius. Let’s say it right off the bat. It is high time that women take the floor without waiting for the males to give them the microphone. To all those who go for it and dare, we say: bravo and continue. Encourage other women to do the same.
Women in political parties cannot be relegated to playing second fiddle all the time, fixing the mic, defending ‘mo lider’ against thick and thin and tsunami, settling for a ‘backbencher’ role, and to sacrifice their intelligence and to make wallpaper in the National Assembly because the lider has decided so.
To all these males who pose as judges of the behavior of the female elements of their team or those of their opponents, and express their disapproval in French or in the local version of the language, we would like to tell them that they are not obliged to integrate the misogyny that accompanies this language.
Once, one of the deemed intelligent ’leaders once advised a female Member of Parliament to alle rode ene mari’ in full assembly. It was a backslid and vulgar way of ordering her to calm down, a state she can only achieve with a man by her side. The sexual connotation is all too obvious in these kinds of low-level comments.
In a male-driven society, as everywhere else in the world, the cult of personality is practiced above all in a male universe around a few men adored by a clique of supporters who pass them by, and even more here, all their faults, whims , moods ; and even more serious, their incompetence, not to mention their language gap, and their anger… almost divine like that stung in the middle of the Temple transformed into a place of trade.
An angry politician? Oh there, what a man! We ’made the guy angry! Oh good ? What about the woman? From her, we certainly expect her to be reserved, docile, patient and obedient in the midst of a political assembly whose rules of ‘discipline’ are fixed in advance by the caciques, accustomed to an authoritarian and repressive functioning of the party.
. Well no ! This time is now over. Sheila Bunwaree has lifted the leaden cap that stifles intelligence and speech. This gesture is highly symbolic.
It is a refusal to blindly follow a so-called ‘discipline’ when one considers a situation to be arbitrary and unfair, prevents other thinkers from expressing their ideas and opinions, and leaves them members of the public are hungry for lack of opportunities to debate on important topics.
We’re no longer mad at those political parties that make sheep that we keep on a leash as long as they say yes, leader ’all year round. To great ills, great remedies.
Has an exasperating situation where the caciques from a party (once perceived as revolutionary) now pose as liberators and behave like leftist potentates who intend to run everything under the facade of a collegial circle, and it is a safe bet, who count to be enthroned in their seat until death ensues (like lider maximo Paul Vergès in Reunion or Fidel Castro in Cuba), it was necessary to respond with exasperation.
That’s what the academic did. Others had better follow his example. All year round, everyone shouts: ‘Get indignant! Be outraged! ”Well, here’s one that did! So what the hell now?
From the Greek hustera, the word “hysteria” means uterus or womb, the source of a neurotic disorder that mainly affects women, as scientists once believed. True or false, the question is not there.
Moreover, during millennia of sidelining where women had no say in their homes or in the public arena, we can imagine the damage that this frustration could have caused.
To a friend who said that his wife had done her medical thesis on the hysteria of women in Tunisia twenty years ago, we spoke of this dominating patriarchal model all over the world at different times, in Europe too, which demolished women in the depths of their being, stifling their intelligence and preventing them from living and developing fully.
Let us return to our macho liberators of the people. After rode a husband ’a few years ago, now the woman who is supposed to be hysterical’ is being pointed out.
Just hearing the word “hysterical” tossed at a collaborator yesterday, our blood only skipped a beat. It was unbearable!
The political class is sorely lacking in women and intellectuals, men and women.
The fight is tougher for women, but it is more essential and stimulating than ever. Nothing will be served to them on a platter, they are going to have to go for it, and force the lock ’because nobody’s going to open the door for them’ as Sheila Bunwaree points out.
Three years ago, a BJP activist in India, outraged by the ban on women entering a temple, broke into it without warning. In this temple, a group of men was assembled.
Thus, she gave the example of “be the change you want to see”. According to the caciques of the new party, “the cohabitation of strong personalities” poses a problem.
So it’s the woman who has to go, if we understand correctly. As in modern divorce. In fact, in this political world dominated by men, we don’t really like the intellectual woman.
She disturbs. They prefer those who will not dare to upset the way they operate too much. However, women know that among wolves who are well established in the political arena, you have to howl louder to be heard.
Academics and other civil servants in politics, with unpaid leave, and reinstatement of their posts in the event of non-election: it is about time. Excellent idea.
It’s the best idea we’ve heard these days. The very idea is going to give sleepless nights to those who are well-versed in the art of keeping valuable people at bay.
For too long, political space has been monopolized by a host of lawyers and doctors, a professional category who thinks they are the country’s intelligentsia and valued themselves more than they actually have.
. All these illuminated imagine that Mauritians are still living in the 70s and are not in a position to judge the true value of various diplomas.
With a few accountants, economists and others who pay themselves a salary well above their utility and decency, from which all these beautiful people benefit without flinching, we have a complete picture of those who monopolize political discourse, without losing any See the pretentious university graduates among the most talkative journalists in the media space… These do better: they take the place of everyone – intellectuals, politicians and economists.
It is in this macho and condescending environment that women must rush to speak out. Among the machos who swarm all the decision-making bodies, in the political field, it is not easy to find a man who has the caliber of Nathalia Vadamootoo, a graduate of a Higher School of Administration.
“Underdeveloped” and “the art of killing good energies”, you put it so well, ladies.
More than an art, it is a specialty to promote mediocrity, deception, falsehood, appearance, superficiality and devastating energies. Forward, Ladies. Adelante! It is time for intellectuals, men and women, to take center stage.
Here, as elsewhere, where the whole economy has given an oversized importance to those who debate it in the media, it is necessary to give its letters of nobility to the true elite, also made up of those who specialize in Letters, Literature, History, Classics, Human Sciences, Philosophy and Sciences. It is a tragedy when a country tries to stifle its elite.
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