Scattering seeds does not prove manhood
Publication date: Thursday, 16th February, 2006


LADY’S MAN: Artiste Abdu Mulaasi dances with women from his ‘farm’

Hilary Bainemigisha

IN Africa, a man who gets many women and children with other women is a
great man. Such a man cannot lose votes because of that,” said Gertrude
Njuba, a presidential advisor of no ordinary kind.

Probably because of her advice, someone is about to reveal data about the
top chair, which God forbid, may water down all presidential stern advice
we rely upon for stronger family values in our battle against AIDS.

Apparently, advisor Njuba holds farmers who scatter their seeds all over
the face of the earth in high esteem. To become her Alpha male, you time
when everyone is not looking and register as a multiple voter.

When the Electoral Commission smokes you out, you declare it official.
When madam raises a few clouds of dust (which can include war, exile,
revenge, rape charges or court cases), you just ignore – whatever rises,
will fall again.
When the dust settles down, change the constitution to allow multiple
affairs. And advisor Njuba will be applauding your dribbling skills.

But at what cost in terms of broken human hearts, integrity sacrificed,
confused children and loss of moral platform?

Will the cheer lady be there to console you when your own daughter becomes
the driving school of the whole village? And you have no moral authority
to chastise her because you cannot direct traffic when your own car is
junk?

Gentlemen, scattering seeds beyond your garden has never been recognised
as a good farming practice in any agricultural community.

advisor Njuba lives in the bush days where everyone with a landline had to
have a mobile phone. It was a lot of fun, particularly in the moral
context where for men, the erection justified the means.

History has great men who could parade hundreds of wives. The Biblical
record holder is King Solomon who had 700 wives and 300 concubines. He
needed more than three years to have sex with the same woman again,
assuming it was on his daily menu.

Today, you can run into walls by following Solomon’s footsteps. The trek
can put you in the path of danger from angry husbands, disappointed
lovers, jealous women, brute children, rape charges, threat of exposure by
the likes of Byanyima and a gruesome collection of STDs.

In today’s scarcity of money, demands of employment and bounty of risk,
promiscuous guys are sweating beneath their fur because riding several
stallions, which may sometimes be competing against each other, is nothing
short of exhausting.

Take for instance getting caught. If for mere knickers, one great man was
shaken, what about sex? It can be terribly inconvenient, expose you to all
manner of justifiable accusations, break hearts and homes, cost you a
fortune (your life or your car!) and unending court processes.

For some hot-blooded, high testosterone Alpha males, the frisson of danger
may be exciting. The threat of discovery may raise the temperature.

Doing things you shouldn’t be doing with someone you shouldn’t be doing it
with, somewhere you shouldn’t be doing it from, without a manual or
anything, may be exciting. But it doesn’t look the same when you are at
the receiving end. Such people cry loudest when they are juggled with
other blokes.

First, they are too busy covering up their own tracks to sniff the air.
But when they do, they can run berserk.

If you are a man, you probably have been dared several times to prove your
manhood. Don’t pull down your zip, don’t slap people like Bugingo, don’t
even jump into the ring like Wasswa Lule – just look left, then right and
cross the street.

Manhood doesn’t have to be proved. Having several women is actually not a
big thing today. It is not even clever and it can lose you a lot of peace.
And if you must do it, at least do it for the love, not false prestige and
cheap popularity.

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