freshdude2: Coogar, do you remember me saying that feminism in Nigeria is really about female dominance? There is no benefit/privilege I enjoy that a woman is deprived of just because she's female. This whole feminism noise is irritating. They claim they want equal rights but flee with gusto when it's time to take the responsibilities of the crown they so desperately want to wear.

ihedinobi2:
I see. Then the demarcation between regular feminism and radical feminism is sensible. It's gotten harder to tell with the war of words.

pickabeau1:

He hasnt made the difference

Someone can say there is no difference

ihedinobi2:
I see. Then the demarcation between regular feminism and radical feminism is sensible. It's gotten harder to tell with the war of words.

pickabeau1:

He hasnt made the difference

Someone can say there is no difference

ihedinobi2:
Considering this reality about doing business, do you consider it cruelty and unfairness for businesses to prefer hiring men?

coogar:

there's no difference. a woman is either a feminist or she's not. saying it's different defeats the purpose of the cause.

MrAnony1:
You are wrong there. there is a difference. Not all feminists are radical feminists.

cococandy: First the wirter says the problem of female suppression doesn't exist in Nigeria.
That almost renders the whole write up invalid.
I'm sorry it's difficult to take some who says that seriously.
A country where we have to count the high profile women off the fingers of both hands and feet still has a long way to go in women's emancipation.
He wanted her to be specific about the part of Nigeria still in the dark?
I guess we should title the next topic 'emancipation of women in the North' or
'Emancipation of women in urhobo land'
Aren't we all Nigerians?


Second,one would have expected him/her to put their points accross without throwing insults and jabs at the person of chimamanda.
I don't know what this write up is all about,but it is glaring that at the heart of it is a deep dislike for adichie. And hate is one thing I don't do.if I quote all the sentences where she/he said nasty things about the writer, it'll be very obvious this topic is about chimamanda and nothing else.
And frankly I've a life so colorful I don't sit and discuss celebrities.

I think the author of this post should try get such a life too.

MrAnony1:
This is an example of a stupid comment.

crackhaus:

MrAnony1:
Actually I have pointed out the difference.

I thought you were going to open a new thread for us to discuss further.

freshdude2: Coogar, do you remember me saying that feminism in Nigeria is really about female dominance? There is no benefit/privilege I enjoy that a woman is deprived of just because she's female. This whole feminism noise is irritating. They claim they want equal rights but flee with gusto when it's time to take the responsibilities of the crown they so desperately want to wear.

pickabeau1: Sorry.. the writer is male.. i was corrected
I believe some of our feminists dont really understand what the issues are

A lot of the online army just got wind of these ideology and are now more indoctrinated than the whites themselves.
Your points on chivalry are very funny

freshdude2: Biitch please, I mentioned you by name. The "classy" thing to do is return the favour. Been a while I roasted your shrivelled arze. Remember when last you bleated? I'll joggle your memory.

Princetammy: Kudos to the OP for taking time to put up a very concise and articulate write up. I have resided in Finland for three years and i can confirm every bit of what the OP has stated about the effect of the so called feminism in the society. I pity the new crop of Nigerian wanna be feminist. Having been able to experience life on both divide ( i.e Nigeria and Finland), i would choose the Nigerian family system over the latter as it barely exist over here.

princefunmi: I'm usually at a loss when this feminism talks rears head. A lot of women advocate feminism without actually understanding its full implication - an implication that is a total contradiction of what the woman actually is and what she really wants.

Its one thing to advocate for a stop to the gender segregation many women suffer. Its quite another to advocate for equality. Its against the rules of nature, our very existence itself.

joomiegirl:

Oho. Especially in relationships/ marriage. Lol @ "flee when its time to take responsibilities..."

Are you minding them? Men have God-given roles; the headaches and responsibilities of which I don't want, thank you very much!
I have enough to deal with in MY role as a woman .
Seriously, though!
And trust me, its NOT all about financial responsibilities!
Feminists want to dominate...doesn't seem to be "werking" for them...

I know for a fact that African feminists qualify as the worst globally—the least informed, specifically. And I’m not very surprised by this truth, given that they try to copy a Western ideology they know practically nothing about.

Kay17:

There lies the chauvinist's assumption that women lack intellectual capacity. It is glaring! There is no basis to believe African women are too shallow to scrape a little understanding of feminism. This is the inequality most feminists are against.

all4naija: @ OP
Stop posting. It is clear you like to be abused by men. I can never allow any of my sisters to be used by men or used for any domesticated slavery. As I can see you are only going about the public positions in the country living out the areas that matter the most where women are relegated to the background in African society, the home and raising a family.

You just want to look objective to Chimanmada by all means and your points look out of place.

Thank you.

BlackKenichi:
My god man. Do you carry a purse and sit down on the toilet seat while taking a p1ss?
Stop being a mangina and grow a f*cking pair!

akigbemaru: chidimamman Adichie with her divisive remarks again.

all4naija:
We have being hearing of pairs since time immemorial! I am not going to be a part of enslaving women all in the name of culture, pride and religion. It doesn't make you a man either. You aren't man enough, I guess!

pickabeau1: cococandy.. any thoughts



contd...http://saharareporters.com/2014/07/29/adichie%E2%80%99s-feminism-vacuums-and-fallacies-gonzaga

mcino:
A few observed points, though.
1. The op is a tactful hater of Adichie and intelligently gave the impression that the writer is a woman, so as to make the article more acceptable. This was not detected early enough, and he was able to run away with it and its attendant effect on the whole discourse. Oluchukwu Aloysius-Gonzaga Nwikwu is male and google (https://www.facebook.com/oluchukwualoysiusgonzaganwikwu) would have solved this, but the op chose to ride on people's ignorance to achieve a hate goal
2. The writer is a hater, otherwise remarks like "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘feminist’ views, as well as towards her [b]tasteless style of performance", especially the bolded wouldn't have been necessary. There are lots of such remarks, like "Unquestionably, Adichie has been everywhere with her opinions in recent years—ill-conceived as they are doomed to be—plus ever-willing to present them in manners that confirm a thorough lack of tact and class" and "Yes indeed, it’s OK to have strong opinions, but nothing confirms Adichie’s lack of a full integration into her American society—despite having spent many years there—than her consistently unashamed display of words betraying a lack of class.", which depicts a loser, who tries every inch to find a mate in pulling others to his un-existent world. His definition and understanding of class is sour and ill-driven.
3. He is petty, and that is why he made such a statement, "And so I’ll go ahead to remark that according to my Igbo culture, when a woman goes about town or country acting out of control and spewing sheer arrogance as has been the case with Adichie the writer, sensible adults tend to point fingers of blame at one ultimate culprit—a vacuum—and it specifically has to do with the absence of a real man in the woman’s life, either as a strong father figure, or as a strong and influential brother or partner. One could say ‘husband’ instead of ‘partner’ if they will. (And I add that this fourth is also the final vacuum.)". For Christ's sake, anybody that is trying, without bias to counter somebody's argument wouldn't go this far in attacking her person. This is petty and lacks the'class' that the writer touted, a handful times in this article.
4. The writer is an intellectual fraud. He tried to make the audience (and Nairaland audience actually fell for it) feel that Adichie was referring to the men, when he quoted Adichie to have in this; "Her reason was that as she struggled with multiple bags in a hotel elevator, citizens stood by and watched who could have helped or simply offered to assist her. Such a thing wouldn’t have happened in her beloved Nigeria, she said". His background information on this quote did not indicate in any way that Adichie was referring to men not helping him. Adichie could well be referring to the unfriendliness of the swedish. It doesn't matter whether it is a man or a woman. Anybody who is suffering under some luggage up a staircase, would expect the people, standing by to offer a hand of help, whether they are men or women, and when that doesn't come, the natural thing is think that such people are unfriendly. Why would the writer try to, dishonestly make us believe that Adichie was referring to male citizens, watching her struggling with her bags up an elevator?

Personally, i don't subscribe to feminism in any form and do not see any need to advance such radicalism, but if the speech you are referring to is the one here, htt://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc, then you obviously and consciously misrepresented the lady, who in most of your submissions, you never liked a bit. In that speech, I could discern that Adichie is just like William Wilberforce, who once said, "If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever been in existence at large". She described how she came to be known as a feminist and how she has modified it to be an African Happy Feminist, which means that she understands the implication and the perception accompanying feminists and wouldn't wish to be one. However, I understand that she has a very strong feeling, which when she wants to communicate would be understood as being feminism and has no choice but to sweat under that cloak, even when it is not her intention.

Finally, Adichie is a diamond that has no hiding place. I understand that she is always sought out to come and deliver lectures and speeches, not because she so much craves for it, but because people always desire to hear from the people they feel have proved to be exceptional. She has a strong feeling and an opinion that she lets out, whenever she is sought out to speak and as it is said, she is entitled to it. Much as she is an influence, it behoves on all her critics to try and be like her (a star), so that when they are selected among the crowd to speak, they would equally share their own opinions. May be, people would buy theirs, and drop that of Adichie. Anything outside this will be the kind of ranting by Ebeneezer Williams, when Nnamdi Azikiwe was soliciting for fund to build the great University of Nigeria Nsukka. He mocked the idea of BSc Nsukka, etc, but today history has placed Ebeneezer Williams and Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe where they belong. While the former remained, till date a nobody, the latter is revered as Zik of Africa.