In Kenya women can be stripped for wearing clothes that men don't like. This happened on November 16, 2014 in a busy bus stop in downtown Nairobi where a group of bus touts stripped a woman naked because she was wearing a short skirt. The length of her skirt was dictated by this mob who beat her sensless. The next day the same scene was repeated in a neighborhood bus stop where another woman was stripped naked and beaten sensless, she is still recuperating in a major hospital. A few hours later, the same was happeing in major towns in Kenya.
All this time the men claimed that these women's dress codes prompted them to be beaten. Others said they deserved it. Local Radio talk shows had men calling in and dictating how women should dress or else get stripped naked and beaten by men on the streets. Other men said if you don't want to be beaten then do not provoke men by wearing a short skirt. So who dictates to a woman the length of her skirt? Is it those men on the streets?
It should be a woman's choice to wear what she wants and not for a man to dictate to a woman what she should wear. This amounts to policing women on what they should wear and this is violating a woman's right to choose what to wear and to be free from unnecessary harrassment. This measure by men has caused some women to have sleepless nights.
