Imagine that! I saw this article about fifteen minutes after I blogged about Uganda’s urge to grope women on behalf of the national safety. In it, the whole bra-as-bomb thing is clarified by the “terrorism expert,” who says “they” — terrorists, I assume? — are “are now making suicide bomb vests similar to bras. We therefore appeal to security personnel to check women’s bras thoroughly.”
Ah, I see. Bomb vest. Bra. You know, shit you strap around your rib cage, it’s all basically the same.
Has this “terrorism expert” ever seen a suicide bomber vest? Or, I don’t know, The Hurt Locker?
Activist Salama Namuddu has a pretty radical take on this, according to the article. She suggests — wait for it — “that instead of giving security personnel a valid pretext to touch women’s breasts, the police should rather place metal detectors at all entry points to public places.”
Another women’s rights activist threatened that women would demonstrate against this.
I’ll get on the first bus to Kampala. Assuming I don’t have let anyone cop a feel to get across the border.
