Rape Is Never About The Dress, It Is A Game Of Power – Popular Journalist

Award-winning media personality and journalist, Funmi Iyanda has said rape is a game of power as men see themselves as gods.
The tv personality in a series of tweets yesterday shared the story of how she was always harassed for the way she dressed while she anchored her breakfast TV show, New Dawn with Funmi Iyanda.
The single mother of one, who has been off the grid since October 2014 revealed that she was down physically but she is gradually recovering.
In July, 2015 Funmi released new pictures from her new Tv show which she is yet to reveal.
Read the tweets below:

It is never about the dress, I was punished by the church as a teenager for wearing seductive hair, exact same hair another girl wore.

— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015

Patriarchy positions men to mimic God. Men are not gods, they fail. The sense of powerlessness prompt violence. Rape is a crime of power. — Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015

A culture of patriarchy props rape. Men as well as women suffer under patriarchy. That unacknowledged suffering often underpin rape culture.

— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015

Through my 8 years in national TV l was constantly harassed to cover up even when fully clothed and some states in the north won’t air “me”.

— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015

A certain show with my friend @AgathaAmata was never aired because she wore a long dress that didn’t cover her arms. — Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015

I never forgot that “seductive hair” experience. I was 17. The church elder, male, took a pair of scissors and cut my hair at the root.

— Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015

I genuinely hated being held responsible for the people’s reactions to my femininity. Sometimes my collarbone was the offending part. — Funmi Iyanda (@Funmilola) September 9, 2015

Olufunmilola Aduke Iyanda popularly known as Funmi Iyanda, is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, columnist and blogger. She produced and hosted Nigeria’s popular and authoritative talk show New Dawn with Funmi, which aired on NTA for over eight years. She is the CEO of Ignite Media, a content-driven media organisation operating out of Lagos.