It is troubling when the recurring media narrative is seen to tolerate violence towards men and packages it as amusement between hard news. It is akin to endorsing the idea that male victims of spousal violence asked for it and thereby belittling their truth.
News bulletins have been dominated with clips of gangs of young men and angry women in Central Kenya moving from bars to liquor dens, flushing out drunkards and destroying merchandise. While much focus has been on destruction of private property and the excesses of mob justice, I feel most of the reports have been framed…
Two men had their penises chopped off in Nyeri county in under a week in a harrowing episode of domestic violence. In the first case, a married woman reportedly turned on her husband after he reappeared after a two-day disappearing act, empty handed save for a pocket stashed with condoms and drunk. The next incident…