Ace novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, said this while
speaking at the university of Edinburgh. She said: “We shouldn’t assume, that
because a person is born a woman, that person is somehow is just one step lower
than angel.
I find it quite dehumanizing for women because what is means
is that women cannot be judged on the same terms as men. I remember once a
politician in Nigerian who was a woman, had stolen money which is an exercise
most nigerian politicians are very adept at.
She was pilloried, I remember a jounalist saying and she’s a
woman. Somehow the assumption was it will be better if she was a man because
then Nigerians would not judge her harshly since we expect men to steal.
I think the idea of women being another specie of angel is
bad for both women and men because it makes the standards uneven.”
I always agree with whatever Chimamanda says.
She can't be wrong where I stand.
Seriously, Nigeria needs to cut women some slack.
Nor be only us waka come.
Askor and shior!

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