Life The long road to equal treatment
posted by on August 24 at 11:03 AM
I, like some of my more vocal feminist colleagues, denounce sexism in all its many forms. This article has my ovaries shrieking fire.
From BBC news:
A troop of vervet monkeys is giving Kenyan villagers long days and sleepless nights, destroying crops and causing a food crisis.They estimate there are close to 300 monkeys invading the farms at dawn. They eat the village’s maize, potatoes, beans and other crops.
And because women are primarily responsible for the farms, they have borne the brunt of the problem, as they try to guard their crops.
…the monkeys are more afraid of young men than women and children, and the bolder ones throw stones and chase the women from their farms.Nachu’s women have tried wearing their husbands’ clothes in an attempt to trick the monkeys into thinking they are men - but this has failed, they say.
“When we come to chase the monkeys away, we are dressed in trousers and hats, so that we look like men,” resident Lucy Njeri told the BBC News website.
“But the monkeys can tell the difference and they don’t run away from us and point at our breasts. They just ignore us and continue to steal the crops.”
In addition to stealing their crops, the monkeys also make sexually explicit gestures at the women, they claim.
“The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts. We are afraid that they will sexually harass us,” said Mrs Njeri.
Fucking pigs. Women deserve respect. When will the monkeys realize that?
(Thanks, P. Billingsley, for the tip.)
P. Billingsley? Is that Peter Billingsley? Ralphie Parker?
It's always bothered me that we don't spell it "monkies."
lmao!
Story of the year!
Are you SURE this wasn't down in Pioneer Square last Saturday night?
Maybe they should try strap-ons.
Guns will learn those damn dirty apes.
I very much like the phrase "ovaries shrieking fire".
DIRTY MONKEYS. God, I would feel so resentful and yet foolish for feeling resentful towards monkeys.
This has to be oddest (most odd?) story I have read in a long time.
the monkeys are misogynists?
then it must be NATURAL.
note to african women - kill one with your bare hands in front of the others, rip it asunder & eat it raw, and i bet they'll get the message.
@8 I agree with the extreme violence part. I think maybe these women are just a little timid, though. My mom scares the hell out people a lot more than my dad, despite being five inches shorter, and a whole lot rounder.
that monkey literally has blue balls.
HAHAHAH Seriously? They grab their breasts and point at their private parts? FOR REAL?!?!
What is the sex of the monkeys? I suppose either way, it's disturbing.
Weird that the farmers wouldn't have shotguns. I couldn't shoot an orangutan or a chimpanzee, but I'd shoot a monkey no problem.
Fucking monkeys!
Somehow, this is all Michael Vick's fault.
Best Slog post ever!
So why don't their menfolk help them? Monkeys can't help their behavior; the human males could learn to cooperate, or starve.
the author of this slog post has painted a very comical stereotype of feminist activism, and it's totally appreciated.
The best part? The farmers aren't allowed to kill or injure the monkeys, because they're a "protected species." Well, starving Kenyan farmers, just do what other struggling peasants straining under asinine and uncaring governments do: ignore them, and don't get caught
Kill the monkeys, eat them, and hide the evidence. Then, when the government asks what happened to them, point to the failing crops and claim they went away after they took all your food.
Those women are weenies, then. I'm 5'2" and my husband is 6'2", and I can name any number of people who are much more afraid of me. I'm a lot meaner than he is. And I agree with maxsolomon - the women should make a gory, bloody example of one of the monkeys in front of the others. It's what I do with garden slugs - I like to skewer them on sticks and leave them there as examples for the others. Well, actually the others come and eat the corpse, but at least then they're not eating my plants.
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