Rank: Elder Joined: 12/9/2009 Posts: 6,592 Location: Nairobi
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FRM2011 wrote:kaka2za wrote:The Business Community have booked Uhuru Park on 30th Jan.They have organised for a free medical camp that will offer free circumcision to street boys. I always find this hilarious. The people who go through real circumcision, real men who go to the river early in the morning and face a traditional curcumcisor stoically, never taunt others as ihii. The only people in Kenya who call others ihii are the ones who go to a hospital, have a painless cut under anesthesia, go home and stay in bed for two weeks being nursed by their mothers. I have a bukusu friend who always taunts me whenever he hears the word kihii. The real men from saboat, bukusu, kuria, kalenjin subtribes who have earned the bragging rights are quiet. The cowards are talking. I always find it hilarious. BTW, most of my Luo friends are not offended by the word. Especially when said by weaklings from Mt.kenya. The truth is, you get offended. Even if a kid in the streets insults you, you will get offended because you are human but you will let it go because it's not worth your time. I get offended too when anyone refers to that word. Most people don't know the history behind it and as you said, the young people using it now undergo a painless surgery in hospital. But I think the reason it offends is because insulting a man by his manhood is more than the usual insult in every culture in the world but it is beyond childish and immature to use that word in this day and age.
BBI will solve it :)
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