i know damn well that the truck pushers in naija are hardworking and most of them cant read and write.

diddy4:

i know damn well that the truck pushers in naija are hardworking and most of them can't read and write.

But they ARE intelligent in their domain. They don't have to be litterates to be considered as intelligent people. That's not what it's about. The fact that you do well in what you do, the fact that you know what to do, the fact that you do what you do and don't screw up are traits of being intelligent. Intelligence isn't about reading and writing.

mo ti gbo

In English? Sorry.

i hear you. my bad. i misunderstood the concept.

Oh. Mo ti gbo. Lol!

If i cyber-slap ypou this thread starter , which kain equality?
oya run into the kitchen nana nana
You ladies should leave us oo and return to your positions, cooking our foods and rubbing our chests when we are tired, i mean

seriosuly, men are above women we can't help it. It's not our fault God made it like that
Wetin sef!! We were made first naw so wetin!
Man is the head no way you can change it.

@ Viper

Where did you grow up? Life's changing you know and you don't want to be left behind. I'll advice you to grow up.

WesleyanA:

so maybe you should visit a western forum and you might see an increasing female contribution to "serious" threads.

According to Seun, 60% of Nairaland members are based abroad. So what's your point?

faa:

@ Viper

Where did you grow up? Life's changing you know and you don't want to be left behind. I'll advice you to grow up.

I grew up in the bush behind your house
ok seriosuly you should have noticed my posts was for fun.
But for real though, Women can't be equal to men whether you babes like it or not.
It is this "the world is changing" attitude that is keeping many of you out of marriages.(For those of you that want to marry).
The bible states it: wives, submit to your husbands and husbands love your wifes like the church, something along those lines. Better re-structure your mind-set, our parents weren't stupid.

diddy4:

a woman taking care of kids and working a full time job doesnt make her intelligent. no, it makes her hardworking.

Diddy was very correct. @Retro, you can't equate being intelligent with being hardworking. They are two different things. Brain is not the same as Power.

Viper:

If i cyber-slap ypou this thread starter , which kain equality?
oya run into the kitchen nana nana

*hurries off to the kitchen to prepare pounded-yam and Egusi soup for her Lord*

goodguy:

WesleyanA:

so maybe you should visit a western forum and you might see an increasing female contribution to "serious" threads.

According to Seun, 60% of Nairaland members are based abroad. So what's your point?

Actually I would say my posts are more than yours in those so-called serious threads e.g. Technology, Business. But since you said you are speaking in general terms, I take a bow out.

IAH:

Diddy was very correct. @Retro, you can't equate being intelligent with being hardworking. They are two different things. Brain is not the same as Power.

You need brains to be a truck pusher. Why is intelligence always associated with reading and writing?

intelligence is to do with common sense not just going to school and having As

I mean, it doesn't have to be general. You can be very intelligent at what you do . . . There are different forms/levels of intelligence. A hardworking woman IS an intelligent woman.

yep! a hardworking woman is an intelligent woman believe it or not

retro:

You need brains to be a truck pusher. Why is intelligence always associated with reading and writing?

No, it's not associated with reading and writing, it's associated with reasoning. When you are pushing a truck you are simply exerting force, energy, work - moving an object from point A to B. Of course, there is the natural intuition/instinct that helps you to know where to move the truck from and to, it does not need any intellectual reasoning.
So instinct is all a truck pusher needs. The higher level is intellectual reasoning.
In short, Brain is different from Power and there's my native proverb that says "Brain is better than Power".

Viper:

I grew up in the bush behind your house
ok seriosuly you should have noticed my posts was for fun.
But for real though, Women can't be equal to men whether you babes like it or not.
It is this "the world is changing" attitude that is keeping many of you out of marriages.(For those of you that want to marry).
The bible states it: wives, submit to your husbands and husbands love your wifes like the church, something along those lines. Better re-structure your mind-set, our parents weren't stupid.

I don't think they were stupid either. I personally do not think men and women are equal but the upper hand doesn't have to be given to the man. It could swing either way. I think as long as respect is in the equation, equality will be taken with little importance.

IAH:

No, it's not associated with reading and writing, it's associated with reasoning. When you are pushing a truck you are simply exerting force, energy, work - moving an object from point A to B. Of course, there is the natural intuition/instinct that helps you to know where to move the truck from and to, it does not need any intellectual reasoning.
So instinct is all a truck pusher needs. The higher level is intellectual reasoning.
In short, Brain is different from Power and there's my native proverb that says "Brain is better than Power".

Erm, truck pushers in Nigeria are those who put trash in their trucks and recycle it, right? If I'm right, I'll continue.

Now, how's a hardworking mother not intelligent? That's something I'll love to know.

lol

My mom is a hardworking mother, she doesn't work. How does that make her unintelligent?

retro:

Erm, truck pushers in Nigeria are those who put trash in their trucks and recycle it, right? If I'm right, I'll continue.

I thought you knew because you cited the example. Anyway, you are right.

retro:

Now, how's a hardworking mother not intelligent? That's something I'll love to know.

My point here is that a hardworking mother is not automatically or necessarily intelligent.

Now do you agree that you sometimes wash plates, clean, etc. and your mind won't even be there? You would be on a manual work yet your mind is elsewhere. That's not intelligence, intelligence involves the mind. It tasks the mind.

From dictionary, Intelligence "the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree."

Being able to scrub the floor, wash, push truck etc. is a manual skill, it involves more of the hands(or legs) and less of the brain. Intelligence (intellectual reasoning) involves the mind and brain. Not that you don't use your brain to wash, clean, push truck but you use very little of it. You can't be said to be intelligent when you are only using little of your brain. I would have loved to tell you how the brain itself works in these things but let's save the story for Jesus.

Hope I was clear enough?

I thought you knew because you cited the example. Anyway, you are right.

It wasn't my idea. Diddy used them as an example . . . I was actually wondering who they were. Lol

IAH:

My point here is that a hardworking mother is not automatically or necessarily intelligent.

Now do you agree that you sometimes wash plates, clean, etc. and your mind won't even be there? You would be on a manual work yet your mind is elsewhere. That's not intelligence, intelligence involves the mind. It tasks the mind.

From dictionary, Intelligence "the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree."

Being able to scrub the floor, wash, push truck etc. is a manual skill, it involves more of the hands(or legs) and less of the brain. Intelligence (intellectual reasoning) involves the mind and brain. Not that you don't use your brain to wash, clean, push truck but you use very little of it. You can't be said to be intelligent when you are only using little of your brain. I would have loved to tell you how the brain itself works in these things but let's save the story for Jesus.

Hope I was clear enough?

I totally understand you. It's just that, when it becomes a job you do to earn money . . . Oh well, you need to get inside my head in order to understand.

Your point is way more logical and correct than mine.

Kudos *gives flowers* . . . this forum needs more people like you who can explain without getting aggressive.

Thanks. I do understand what you are saying too. I do.

Lol! Yay. You didn't even enter my head! Whoa! *Faints*.

IAH:

Actually I would say my posts are more than yours in those so-called serious threads e.g. Technology, Business.

I guess you checked my profile statistics.  I tell you, it's misleading, really.  I'll explain.

Most of my posts (about 90%, out of the over 5000 posts) were made last year.  I usually feel embarrassed most times, whenever I remember those days when I spent most of my time in the Forum games and chatterbox (now offtopic) section of Nairaland.  However, these days, I hardly make any posts at all (as in, contribute actively) under any of these sections, except when it's unusually necessary.

Nonetheless, I do not dispute that fact that you are one of the very few Nairaland females whose posts are never found wanting in the serious-minded boards of the forum and I totally respect (and love like ) you for that.  

To round off my talk, in defence of my past 'unseriousness', I will like you to know that I was a year older just 9 days ago.  Therefore, as Paul said, ". . . I put away childish things." (1 Cor 13:11)

@IAH

thanks for the help. i had a very bad headach today and i still have the thing. i just cudnt explain it as u did.

diddy4:

i had a very bad headach today and i still have the thing. i just cudnt explain it as u did.

After initially admitting that you misunderstood the concept?

Ohh. . I didn't know headache affects thinking.  I once had a very terrible headache while in school and we were given a test.  I actually had the highest score in my class when our scripts were marked (straight up 100%!)

Also, even as I type now, I am ill but I don't think my illness has reflected in any of my posts. (I've been ill since monday )

_{Abeg, don't take this seriously o!  Even though I am serious.}

no kidding man. i dont like to stress myself too much when i aint feeling fine. the best thing to do is to end it and hope someone else helps you out and dats what IAH did.


about your headach and test, try taking a calculus test with a banging headach then tell me how well you did.

According to Seun, 60% of Nairaland members are based abroad.  So what's your point?

And maybe most of the few females that do participate in the "serious" boards are based abroad (the west). That's my point.

I've seen threads on this site where the guys get surprised when they see an active female in "their" boards. I don't know about you but i really don't see anything surprising about it.


If you put a male child and a female child in school, they do equally fine in all their academic areas.
It's only when a certain subject portrayed to be a mens only thing that women loose interest. That's why I used the Smith College example as an illustration. It's a "girls only" school, so the women are free to pursue whatever they want w/o restrictions. I probably will become a CEO and boss some men around when i graduate. j/k

nursing is now a "women" only thing so will it be right to say that nursing is less serious than lets say occupational driving?
I don't think any man would even want to become a nurse because it's a "woman's thing" just like many women aren't interested in engineering because it's "for" men.

women and men aren't equal but they should be and they will be with time.
Who knows? women might even overtake men at some point in time and it'll be the men's turn to create threads like these and complain. 

diddy4:

about your headach and test, try taking a calculus test with a banging headach then tell me how well you did.

You want to send Goodguy to his early death!!? 

WesleyanA:

nursing is now a "women" only thing so will it be right to say that nursing is less serious than lets say occupational driving?
I don't think any man would even want to become a nurse because it's a "woman's thing" just like many women aren't interested in engineering because it's "for" men.

Says who? I was having a conversation with my colleague D__ in the library.

'What's your major?' I asked.

'Nursing,' he replied.

I was incredulous. 'Is it interesting?'

'Sure,' he winked. 'Lots of pretty girls.'

And it's true. . .