Opinion
Should Women Walk Naked?
Indecent dressing is very common today in our society. It is even worse among female students in our institutions of higher learning. They tend to emulate every trend of fashion they see, whether good or bad.
The high rate of indecency in our society is, however, not restricted to female students. It also manifests generally among womenfolk, even among the so-called elites in the society. This set of women put on different styles of trousers to offices, markets and even churches, all in the name of fashion. They claim that those trousers are peculiar to women. How many men have they seen wearing gowns or shirts and blouses claiming that they are ones made for men?
In schools, female students dress half naked, exposing their bodies to their male counterparts and male lecturers. Sadly, lecturers and school officials who are supposed to frown at such indecency are often found taking delight in it.
In the good olden days, women were usually being honoured by their mode of dressing. Hardly would you see the laps of a spinster not to talk of a married woman. These days, the reverse is the case. Most young women now advertise their laps and other vital parts of their body for men to see free of charge. These women should remember what the Bible says that; the body is the temple of the most High God and should not be defiled, and that whoever defiles it, will be destroyed. So, even if they do not have respect for their parents and husbands, they should have respect for God.
Africa has its own culture, and decent dressing is one of those that African culture cherishes. But today, it appears we have lost that African culture to some foreign cultures. There is the need for our women to go back to our traditional attire which gives honour to womanhood. They should do away with wrong imitations of foreign culture, and promote our own culture.
Meanwhile, husbands should discourage their wives from patronizing indecent dressing. Our African women are not helping our society and culture by promoting foreign dressing at the expense of their own culture.
So also, men who patronize these half naked girls on the road are not helping matters. They should desist from encouraging them. Some of the women even disfigure their faces with so much painting in the name of make-up. They forgot that make-up means something that is not up to standard.
Meanwhile, government should device means of restoring sanity in our institutions of higher learning and in our society. Government should find a way of checking indecent dressing in our society, either by way of arresting defaulters or by any other lawful means. Taskforce could be set up to monitor the trend.
Even in institutions of higher learning, lecturers should make it their duties to send indecently dressed students away from the classrooms.
Religious teachers should also be partakers in the war against indecent dressing so that our society will come back to normal; and our culture will regain its fading glory.
Miss Onwuagba wrote in from Awka, Anambra State.
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