Is it legal for women to wear men’s clothes?

WOMEN are always in the forefront to speak for their rights in a society. The advocacy is portrayed through various women’s organizations who are keen in demanding for their rights and are also against any acts of hostilities that men are doing to them including raping. But on the other way round, none of these organizations have stood firmly to point an accusing finger to some practicing women in a society who seems to have no respect and instead tend to behave like men in a society, thus denouncing the lord God who created people with different characteristics knowing each one of them has a role to play in respect of their gender. The most embarrassing thing that has commonly emerged in most African societies nowadays is the habit of women to put on long trousers, a garment that is specifically chosen by the lord God to be men’s dress.

A group of women who have put on long trousers walking along past Millennium Tower building at Kijitonyama area.

They think in doing so, they would one day become men. They actually tend to look like men and want to behave like men, something which by any means whatsoever can be legalized. The habit of women to wear long trousers is strongly an abomination act to the lord God himself who knew from the beginning that his creatures would wear the types of clothes he had chosen for them in respect of the nature of his creation. According to his creation, women would wear skirts, blouses and gowns while men would put on shirts, long trousers and short trousers.

Many reports says that, many young ladies and middle aged women have formed a tendency of wearing men’s long trousers. This shows rudeness for the part of their thinking.

But it’s extremely an annoying thing to see that women have become so notorious in mixing up men’s clothes for themselves an aspect that actually doesn’t show up loyalty before the lord God. The bible says in 1st Timothy 2:9 God forbade mixing up of clothes. I witnessed one day, a daladala driver who was in a verbal conflict with a woman (who looked like a man by the way she had addressed up herself) after a long argument that she was looking for man ship that she knew would never attain.

Two women crossing a makeshift bridge made up of wood planks, this is at Sinza in Dar es Salaam. This temporary bridge passes over a ditch for drainage which seems to have not been repaired for long, hence full of a stinking stagnant water which has now become a breeding pond for mosquitoes and other insects that harass people around.

One Muslim fundamentalist has ever said in a recorded cassette that, the shameful dresses such as the mini-skirts which halfly shows nakedness commonly being practiced by most
young ladies in most African societies is a shameful act as far as African tradition is concerned. This is an idea which of course requires moral support as the habit has been perpetrating the increased moral decay in the African society and to the great surprised, none of the women’s organizations in the country and elsewhere in Africa has ever frowned upon.

It’s a common habit nowadays to see young ladies clad in men’s clothes like long trousers as this lady is seen along the streets of Upanga area in Dar es Salaam

Women have been demanding for their rights, but what rights have they been denied? Is there any law which favors men? In this way the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS disease would never stop. This fundamentalist further warned that, journalists must also be serious with their publications. The presence of obscene photographs in their local newspapers which has become so notorious in most Tanzanian weekly Swahili newspapers their impact causes deteriorating morals in the society. Such photos are the greatest stimulus to the spread of the HIV/AIDS as such photos promotes sexual desire. It’s therefore imperative to observe ethics which are against societal traditions and culture for indecent photographs in newspapers plays a significant role in inducing some people to continue committing unsafe sex resulting into infections.