WOMEN should always have bald heads, lose weight and dress shabbily to reduce their attractiveness as part of measures to curb the spread of HIV, MDC-T Senator for Chikomo, Morgan Femai said yesterday. Addressing Zimbabwe Parliamentarians on an HIV sensitisation workshop here yesterday, Sen Femai proposed that women should also be circumcised. He said HIV is spreading at an alarming rate because men find it difficult to resist women because they are becoming more attractive.
"What I propose is that Government should come up with a law that compels women to have their heads clean-shaven like what the Apostolic sects do. We have never heard that those people (Apostolic sects) are promiscuous so the women should have their heads shaved. They should also not bath because that is what has caused all these problems (spread of HIV)," Sen Femai said.
On women circumcision, he said: "Women have got more moisture in their organs as compared to men so there is need to research on how to deal with that moisture because it is conducive for bacteria breeding. There should be a way to suck out that moisture."
The workshop was organised by the Zimbabwe Parliamentarians against HIV and Aids in conjunction with the National Aids Council, some UN agencies and the
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. Sen Femai becomes the third MDC-T legislator to offer controversial and bizarre advice on how to curb the spread of HIV. Another MDC-T Senator, Sithembile Mlotshwa (Matobo), recently said people should have sex once a month and that men should be injected with drugs that reduce their libido. She also called for prisoners to be given sex toys to quench their sexual needs.
Another MDC-T legislator Thabitha Khumalo is also at the forefront campaigning for the legalisation of prostitution and has vowed to assist commercial sex workers form a trade union to fight for their rights.
Meanwhile, Zipah chairperson Mr Blessing Chebundo (MDC-T Kwekwe Central), said the organisation was established to promote Aids awareness among legislators and also encouraged voluntary testing among the lawmakers.
"The workshop is aimed at sensitising ourselves in the implementation of our objectives on curbing the spread of HIV and Aids and to ensure that members appreciate the response (to the pandemic) by Zimbabwe," he said.
Zimbabwe's HIV prevalence has been on the decline in the past decade and currently stands at around 14 percent from a high of over 30 percent.
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Why would anyone listen to a man who makes so little sense? Is he really insinuating it is the woman's fault that a man finds her attractive? If I am not mistaken, that is how humans reproduce. Rather than circumcising anyone, wouldn't it make more sense for them to use condoms, to prevent disease? We have people who say things which are out of touch with reality, in the US. When we realize we have made a mistake, we quickly vote them out of office, or remove them through official means, such as recalls.
Sen. Thabitha Khumalo's proposal should not be listed among the foolish ones. Keeping sex-work illegal only makes the workers more vulnerable to intimidation and exploitation. When it is legal, sex-workers can demand that their clients use condoms, and this alone has greatly reduced HIV transmission.
The claim that female genital cutting will have any effect on HIV transmission is as bizarre as the one about male genital cutting.
Morgan femai is a jackass and I am surprised that no one from MDC has told him to put such ideas about women up his ass.
How about handing out condoms to these people? You want to stop HIV, teach them safe sex!
Sad but typical of how people think when they choose to devote their lives to pacifism, so much that they delude themselves into thinking there is always an answer that avoids violence... in this case, telling women they can avoid rape if they make themselves ugly. It never works, simply because rapists never care about appearances as much as their victims do, but it's the only solution that doesn't involve violence (as having the police capture and jail rapists would), and so it's the only solution pacifists will support.
Then pacifists wonder why they never get respect, only pity. It's as mysterious and unfair to them as failing to get rich by printing unlimited billion trillion hojillion dollar bills is to Mugabe.