Equal Rights for Women

Equal Rights for Women

How I think women only want it when its beneficial to them in some way

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Now before you jump up and yell, chauvinist! Lend me an ear first. Of all the chants and debates about equal rights to opportunities in management or leadership positions, women are most vociferous .It’s okay to do “once manly jobs such as being police officers, soldiers, etc, because they are interested in doing them. In the black communities I grew up in, women there are okay to dismiss doing the garden or throwing out the rubbish as a man’s job because they aren't interested in doing them.

I’m well aware of the fact that my examples border on the silly and irrelevant, but that’s just how low the hypocrisy delves. Age old societal norms such as calling the human race ‘mankind’, using words such as chairman to note an organisation’s head or having a woman take her husband’s last name after marriage, are scoffed at and denigrated at feminist fuelled advocacy groups or merely in the mindsets of a lot of women.

That attitude seizes to be scornful and promptly turns into a jest when it comes to other societal norms that have persisted throughout the ages. Norms such as the man having to pay in the event of an outing, be the ‘gentleman’ and let the ‘ladies’ go first and the like.

Indeed, if you watch reputable talk shows such as Oprah for instance you’re given front row seats as to how hypocritical women can be. That is exactly what happened to former US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton when she chose to forgive, her husband, then President Clinton after the Monica Luwensky debacle.

Whenever a woman is found to have cheated, the man is lauded as a gentleman and a good guy if he forgives her. Watch what happens when a man is found to have committed an infidelity-the audience is unanimous and steadfast in condemning the foolish partner for even considering pardoning that sorry excuse of a ‘human being’. Indeed, even in the event of the women falling pregnant by her equally happy to cheat partner, the man would be a saint personified if they chose to overlook the ‘incident’ and continued on and raised the other Man’s child.

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In this diverse country of our which has provisions for African customs and traditions, No customs is as backward, patriarchal and chauvinistic, not to mention that treats women as commodities such as Ilobolo, and Of all the ‘irrelevant’ and ‘unnecessary’ African customs,  the so called modern woman has no problem with this particular custom.

 If this Ilobolo actually worked conversely and instead required women or their families to take out that extortionately exorbitant amount of money that unlike as originally intended will do nothing to stop a marriage from being dissolved in matter of years or even months, a plethora of women would have dismissed it as a thing of the past that should rather remain there.

There are campaigns all over the world that talk of how ‘real men’ ought to behave. Women seem to know everything ‘real men’ shouldn’t and should do. Slogans that have the prefix real men don’t... are the toast of their campaign managers. However, if men took to the streets with placards speaking of how’ real women’ ought to behave, they would be chastised and questions such as ‘who do they think they are’ would be abound.

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I’m cognisant of how bitter I come across, but let me assure you that I was grinning from ear to ear as I wrote this because I realise that self preservation is one of those traits that all human beings are infallible of. So the next time you think of how evil men have been by pronouncing themselves lords over women through the ages. Spare the taught that women would have done the very same thing had they had the chance.