Actress,
She subsequently rendered an apology to Ghanaians for what she described as a âwardrobe malfunctionâ.
But Lydia Forson in a piece titled, âHamamat Montia| The Dress and the Court of Public Opinionâ took a swipe at people who verbally attacked Hamamat for what she wore.
According to her, the public cannot decide what anybody should wear especially when they donât feed the fellow. She questioned why people enjoy watching telenovela which mostly have half-naked scenes, feed their eyes with bikini photos yet take on Hamamat.
âUnless thereâs a law against dressing a certain way (maybe there is and I donât know) your personal opinions, standards etc should remain just that, opinions! So fall waaaaaaay back. And please donât start with the moral and cultural standards card you people only pull when itâs convenient for you. If youâre going to show and watch telenovelas with half naked women, and cultural festivals with girls showing their breast all over the place or even post pictures of American celebrities in bikinis; and think itâs ok, then please take several seats and sip on bleach. I think weâre giving people too much power of our lives that theyâre actually beginning to think they have some right or say over us,â portions of her post read.
Lydia Forson advised Hamamat to apologise only when she thinks it is appropriate.
âIf she wants to apologize to anyone, let it be because she strongly believes she did something wrong at that event and not because sheâs being coerced to by trollsâŚ. But NEVER apologize to people who donât feed you like youâre some little girl with no brains. It defeats the purpose of the fight against oppression of women, and gives power to underserving trolls who will continue to shame women by emploring these methods,â Ms Forson noted.
Below is Lydia Forsonâs full post:
I just read on live fm that Hamamat Montia  former Miss Malaika winner who wore a daring dress to the VGMAâs showing her side boob, has apologized.
Stupid stuff like this gets my blood boiling. Apologizing to who and for what?
If we think the dress was bad fine, itâs our opinion and weâre entitled, after all if you step out to an award show youâre basically indirectly signing up to show yourself to the world, thus giving them an opportunity to scrutinize what you wear, that canât be helped; It comes with the territory.
However sheâs  entitled to wear whatever she wants even at the expense of public scrutiny. And shouldnât owe anyone an explanation unless she wants to.
Thereâs nothing wrong with getting it wrong on the red carpet. Lord knows Iâve done it countless times, but itâs the red carpet not bloody heaven. And if you get it wrong you can either own your  or stand by what you wore. Because fashion, like all other things is relative.
What you shouldnât have to do, however , is to be held up to some imaginary court of  crimes against fashion and later made to go through some type of public appeal for redemption.
Unless thereâs a law against dressing a certain way(maybe there is and I donât know) your personal opinions, standards etc should remain just that, opinions! So fall waaaaaaay back.
And please donât start with the moral and cultural standards card you people only pull when itâs convenient for you.
If youâre going to show and watch telenovelas with half naked women, and cultural festivals with girls showing their breast all over the place or even post pictures of American celebrities in bikinis ; and think itâs ok, then please take several seats and sip on bleach.
I think weâre giving people too much power of our lives that theyâre actually beginning to think they have some right or say over us.
Herrr you people paaa, have you paid for or bought a dress for anyone to attend a show? So why do you think you have that much power over what they wear?
The only right you have here is NOT to like the dress, nothing more.
And this is the kind of oppression I keep talking about, the kind that seeks to shame women because someone somewhere sitting on a couch with a bag of chips and nothing to their name except Internet data decides that this is wrong.
If she wants to apologize to anyone, let it be because she strongly believes she did something wrong at that event and not because sheâs being coerced to by trolls.
So she called out the photographer for taking a picture which she thinks didnât do her justice, sheâs allowed to if thatâs what she feels strongly about, even if sheâs wrong.
I know Iâve called out a few mischievous photographers before.
And the photographer is equally allowed to stand by her picture if she thinks sheâs justified in that, itâs her professional stance.
Because they both had a job that night, one to look her best and the other to take the best pictures and in both cases each had a right to whatever worked for them.
But for heavenâs sake stop using this as some tool to bring her to her knees. Itâs getting tiring now.
Why do we hold people to some high imagery standards weâve created, and later lash out at them when they donât meet them?
And half the nig**z complaining are probably jerking of over this picture and the women are probably angry they werenât daring enough to pull it off.
The women. You people di33 I will get your time, no be today. Because the way you put your fellow women down eh! Hmm.
Why does someoneâs life bother you so much? Ah. Or people are getting paid and I donât know, please oh if they are then show me where the money at, cuz in this  economy a SISTAâs got to get paid.
Now Iâm neither in support of or against what she wore, I really could care less.
Iâm more appalled by how people tried to use this as measurement for whether she was a fit mother or the reason behind her failed marriage( and FYI failure only means something didnât work and not because itâs the end of the world).
You could have talked about the dress without bringing your children, family and personal life into it. Itâs just a DRESS ah!
I donât know Hamamat personally and Iâm quite indifferent about her, however if Iâm going to speak out for women I canât with a clear conscious pick and choose who I support or speak for based on my feelings towards them.
But you people should go on, me Iâve got time, one day Iâm going to post all your DMâs and dirty little secrets you have . So we can level the playing field.
Because I think the Internet is making some of you feel invincible and untouchable. But there is God ooh, one day one day, you will all have your matta on board. Then weâll see where your vim to post trash will go.
But my dear Hamamat next time stand by what you wore(Â ) or own that you didnât get it right. Either way, itâs part of the Showbiz culture, no big deal.
But  apologize to people who donât feed you like youâre some little girl with no brains. It defeats the purpose of the fight against oppression of women, and gives power to underserving trolls who will continue to shame women by emploring these methods.
My friend Whitney Boakye â Mensah said it best in her post on Facebook a while back. And I think it sums up a lot of what I want to say, but Iâm too brain tired to write.