The Women’s Progressive Organisation (WPO), the women’s arm of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), said in a statement that it wishes to express its total disgust at the demeaning way in which some media houses refer to women in their reporting of news, events and even satires.
The “Dem boys seh…” column of Kaieteur News of Friday, August 31, 2012 is a typical case in point.  The opening paragraph states: “Some man does see woman pun de road wid nice, nice face and fancy clothes, but when yuh peep under dem dress, things does be dirty.”
“Publishing such an insensitive statement not only shows outright disrespect for women, but also underscores a greater problem – limited intellectual capacity of some media decision-makers to understand that women are no longer pawns that can be shoved around at the whims and fancy of any and all.
“Women have fought their way out of the troughs of a once male-dominated society, and today they have a voice – a voice that can no longer be ignored nor stifled.
“No one has a right to make mockery of women’s hard-earned right to equality and freedom, to be treated with respect and dignity,” the WPO said.
It added: “On behalf of all the women of Guyana, the WPO calls on KN to withdraw their undignified statement and to express an immediate and unqualified apology to all Guyanese, in particular our women.”