Uncle Chim Tuna Speaks: Girls, Stop Looking To Socialites For Role Models, Look To Women Like Ghafla’s Sue Watiri!

Earlier today I read Sauti Sol’s Mudigi’s comments about Kenyan socialites and I was reminded of a conversation I had with a young lass who said Pendo was her role model. Actually, the lass found me via Facebook and was begging me to introduce her to Pendo.

Being the certified douchebag that I am, I ignored her. Mean? Aye. But what would you have done in my position? Young lasses these days are getting caught up on attempting to live life on the first lane.

And that tells me that Kenyan mothers are failing in their task to produce the balanced women of tomorrow. By the time your daughter looks to someone portraying an image on a video (a paid actress) or pandering after fame, then you did some terrible injustice to her.

Girls all around Kenya should be taught the value of earning a living from the sweat on your brow and not horizontally. and to illustrate that, allow me to use the example of someone who earned my respect: my colleague Sue Watiri.

Sue is a go-getter. She is surrounded by socialites (Mudigi will catch feelings about my insistence on using that term) both sophisti-ratchet and the sophisticated that you don’t even know.
Sue could easily “Gali-lounge” and do nothing at the office and still demand a paycheck like alot of women do these days; diluting the very gains of feminism. As my mother says, she fought for equity at the workplace for the current crop of women to think feminism means doing half the work and demanding equal pay.

But not Sue. She digs in like the rest of us and she goes in hard! She broke a record with her first article -not just a Ghafla but a blogging milestone for Kenya achieving 50,000 hits in 24hrs.
Sue wakes up like the rest of the lads when dirty work needs to be done and volunteers to do it.

She trolls with the best of them and has a commendable work ethic. She earns her keep. If ever you need a role model because you have none at home, log onto Ghafla and learn from Sue Watiri.

That said and done, we shall now resume our usual programming of me, me, and some more me!