The Kind Of Justice Feminists Want

She is sixteen and the boy is nineteen. She lives with her step mother because her mother died when she was only six. They fell in love some eighteen months ago and they have been seeing each other. When her step mother got wind of the affair, she sternly warned her not to be seen with him again. Because love is love, they were seen together again by some neighbors in the market. The step mother was mad and told her to find somewhere to sleep or else.

She slept outside their house because they refused to open for her. The second day she was told never to darken their door again, this is when she decided to go to her boyfriends house. He was staying alone, orphaned and poor. The step mother went to the community police, feigning no knowledge of her daughters where about. Surprisingly she led them straight to the boy's house.

They found the girl and arrested the boy for kidnapping. The boy's guardians were never informed as the community police took turns in punching him. He cried as they mercilessly punched him till the girl told them to beat her along with him. And they did so, warning them to immediately call it quits. The boy accepted but the girl refused.

She continued going to the boy's house and now she is pregnant. The boy was arrested for allegedly defiling a minor and languished in a police cell for two months. Feminists jumped in and made the matter sound like an adult man had defiled a small girl. It didn't sound like there was only a three year age gap. It seemed as if nobody was on the boy's side. During the trial the boy was charged with kidnapping and defiling a minor. The step mother tried all her best to demonize the boy by referring to him as “Abambo awa” (this old man) while the girl was referred to as “kamwana aka” (this little girl).

Finally the girl's turn to testify came. The step mother and the prosecution had spent their time advising her on what and how to say. She calmly nodded her head giving them a sense of assurance that she would do as directed. She majestically walked into the dock, stealthily looked at the boy she loved, a tear or two streamed down her cheeks. Then a barrage of questions began to be fired in her direction. The boy's future hang in the balance as all people waited with abated breath to hear what the girl would say. She sighed and opened up.

She told the packed court room that the boy was no rapist but her lover. She told the court that her step mother didn't want him because he is poor and orphaned. She also told them that he did not kidnap her but she went to his house alone because she was locked out of their house. She admitted the boy's responsibility for her pregnancy, but added that she was not raped. She told them how she used to go to his house, on her own, without any duress and that the boy had never been to her home. She then closed with this question, “I am sixteen and he is nineteen, are you sure I am a minor and he is an adult? What about those seventy year old men who marry forty year old women, with an age gap of thirty years, is that not defilement?

If you wind back their age and put the man at thirty, how old would the woman be?” She got a standing ovation. The judge adjourned the case and finally acquitted the boy, but feminists were outraged. They claimed the girl was too young to make a decision and the boy was a full grown monster who should be sentenced to life imprisonment. That's the type of justice feminists want. Boys are slowly becoming an endangered species.

The marriage age bill in Malawi ignored this. While girls are innocent till proven guilty, boys are guilty till proven innocent. Is this not selective justice? May our judges resist the feminist pressure and convict only those men and boys who are truly guilty. Most feminists are men haters with scores to settle. From the Pew.