Are Artists Perpetuating the Trope Against Women?

“Fear Woman” The stencilled inscription in all its gold blazoned character sits loudly behind this Toyota Hiace trotro bus (trotros are mini commuter buses). Like most inscriptions on commercial vehicles (both trotros and taxis), they express or communicate sentiments, either from personal experience, highlight a favourite proverb or a biblical reference. ‘Fear Women’ is one of the common refrain every […]