I've often heard people say that wearing skimpy dresses/clothes are un-African. The few pictures of Our forebears that I have seen, shows them wearing next to nothing (both men and women). So am confused where did the saying that skimpy dresses is not un-african come from? And also for those people arguing that wearing of skimpy dresses is the reason why most women are raped, is it that African forebears had no libido or is the modern men sexual predators.


Disclaimer: nudity or semi-nudity doesn't make a woman pretty and am not in support of it.

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I'm trying to find the bearing of this thread. What point are you trying to pass across!? I'm seeing rape and culture/tradition - what's the correlation?

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lomaxx:
I'm trying to find the bearing of this thread. What point are you trying to pass across!? I'm seeing rape and culture/tradition - what's the correlation?

am trying to point out to people that say wearing skimpy clothes is un-african and a borrowed concept from the west, that we Africans, from the beginning, have been wearing attires that didn't properly cover them up.

the rape statement is trying to point out that wearing of revealing clothes is not the predominant cause of rape, else our forebears would have successfully raped their women beyond repair.

emeka94:


am trying to point out to people that say wearing skimpy clothes is un-african and a borrowed concept from the west, that we Africans, from the beginning, have been wearing attires that didn't properly cover them up.

the rape statement is trying to point out that wearing of revealing clothes is not the predominant cause of rape, else our forebears would have successfully raped their women beyond repair.

Totally.

Rape, among other common crimes are a direct result of the breakdown of the African social system, and replacement with an insufficient economic and social system. Civilization indeed.

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