apayanjeeeeeeeee   

Yes you are osisi even your brother 4Play has said it many times. Alafishe.

If common sense doesnt tell you that the ones Im referring to are those of you in this thread then I have no solution for you.

It's funny how they have no problem running their mouths about tribal marks in Yorubaland but when you ask them about practices in their own area ie osu, iichi marks, etc, it means someone is trying to "bring them down"

Paranoid bunch of egomaniacs

You can compliment my hubby Debo's write-up as much as you like because he is too darned good, but do you have to blow him kisses too Angry I joke with everything, but this is where I draw the line Angry This is your last warning Angry Angry Angry Grin

Oniranu Debo and I go WAY back, further than this your yeye puppy love. Abeg comot for road

For goodness sake just a couple of months ago there was even a British resident medical doctor who was forcefully detained and married in Pakistan (or was it Bangladesh). . . she was threatened and held captive by her family, it was the intervention of the British authorities that helped secure here release. In the UK here, honour killings are carried out time after time

Dont you know this was all "cooked up by the media" to make all men look bad? *rolls eyes*

debosky:

Such a statement can be rightly interpreted as a denial of the existence of the problem.

If you bothered to research even briefly, you would know that is a SERIOUS problem.

Your disregard for women is obvious, if not you wouldn't so casually refer to a person's mother in derogatory fashion.

Amazing how for some dudes, anything that is shown that is anti women is always referred to as "false propaganda  by the media"

who doesnt know what's going on there abi the term "honor killing" just came out of thin air

Denial sha  

Osisi perhaps you can translate ikomi's gibberish for me.

How many of these do you really know?

So the statistics showing the many women leaving these countries to escape being killed. Some are even killed here in the West by the families. All lies cos you say so?

michelin89:

Leave that guy abeg! He get problem. That one even fit deny something like Shoah because na him fellow man cause am!

I just think it's weird that they think it's something all females are worried about. Most of those that do this is cos it's a do or die affair which is why it's a BIG thing in the middle east. But as usual the dorks assume it's something every girl wants to do *rolls eyes*

a few months ago, a 60 year old woman was celebrating her 25th marriage anniversary and she did the procedure just to be tight again for the night of anniversary. wonder what people have to say about that?  

stilly, the boy seems to be psychotic. He randomly comes up with the weirdest crap

What is all these talk about when there is actually hardly any man who would say that?

why are you in denial of how things are? If such people didnt exist, women wouldnt be killed for such reasons or are they making all of that up too?

honeric01:

@sisterwoman
 You think my wife must be slaving for me now because i asked that question?
Unfortunately, i'm not married

The world heaves a collective sigh of relief

Ikomi, your post has nothing to do with this thread

I am not referring to anyone whose life might be at stake as a result (I'm sure thats an extreme possibility you included to buttress your argument).

Um that is indeed those this thread is referring to. If you read the article, it mainly refers to the women of the middle east and what they resort to, to avoid honor killings. If anything he's staying on topic and not pulling "extremes out of thin air"

You miss the point - any man stupid enough to insist on evidence of virginity as a deal maker/breaker for marrying someone deserves a woman stupid enough to repair her hymen for that purpose.

Apart from this category of women, there are other women whose lives are threatened over virginity - are you saying they should be killed because they exercised their human rights and had sex  Huh If they repair hymens to remain alive, there is no issue there with me - again the stupid men who think this way deserve to be deceived.

The woman is not failing to show self worth - she is doing what is needed to marry this man to meet societal norms. How many men are proud of what they did in the past? How many of them admit it or make it clear that they 'shagged around'?

Some men have a stupid need to feel 'exclusive' without being exclusive themselves - if they can hold such a view, then it is their fault of they get conned. These women aren't doing what men want, they are clearly stating that men need to rethink this illogical craze for virginity or risk being fooled.

Best poster hands down.  

RichyBlacK:

I know, but "getting it in the back" ain't that common, abi?

nowadays it is to "protect the front"

Lmao that girl must be making mad money

Promise virginity to some insecure slowpoke and make him pay hefty sum, leave and do the same to another

3 times eh? Smart chic

what is vono bed?

Richy just because she "resists" vaginal sex doesnt mean she's not getting it in the back.

One of the reasons why I found that "award for Nigerian virgins" article hilariously sad.

If that were true, your grandparent wouldnt be giving you clues on how to distinguish the "unclean" from the "normal" people

Why do people always use their personal experience as the be all and end all of various situation

Just because YOU havent heard of it and family members havent mention (no sure what you're expected to know at age 6) doesnt mean anything

Most of the people in that thread saying No are not old. They are aware that the stigma still affects these people UNLESS a person doesnt know that particluar person family line and really how long does that(the secrecy) last esp if marriage is involved

. I also notice that a good number of people (who I suspect are Igbo) who posted there didn't really have an idea of what Osu is. Someone even went ahead to say that no one really cares for it anymore.

They have no idea because?

From

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-23527.0.html

I myself will NEVER marry osu, not because I don't like them. It is because of the stigma the igbos has on them. For example, they do not involve in active igbo events. No one will elect an osu person as a governor, local chairmen, Eze, Chief, etc.

If an Osu people tries to speak on behalf of the igbo he/she is immediately discredited, because of this stigma. I still have great ambitions for myself and would not want something to hold me back.

If you are not igbo you can never understand. This thing will NEVER go away and I feel very sorry for them. We call it Ome na ala (The law of our land) We cannot leave ome na ala and start to do ome na elu (Not the law of the land)

When you go to village and see how these people leaves, you would feel sorry from them. They do not trade because nobody would buy from them. In school nobody plays with osu children etc, it is really terrible.

Read that thread VERY well and see many people say that even now they would never associate with such people. Like I said before, denial isnt gonna work. Olden days ko. Future days ni.

herpes ko. syphillis ni. They were all happy and smiling the NIGHT BEFORE at the Grammy's pre party. How do you wake up the next morning and start abusing someone ontop imaginary herpes

Dude's a sociopath.

To each on his own. You can marry oduduwa himself if you wish but that doesn't mean that every yoruba man or woman should follow suit. You guys should learn how to be consistent with your reasoning.

Apparently you have a gaping hole on the side of your mouth Funmi. If you truly believed this, you wouldnt have made this thread. You constantly contradict yourself.

I dont believe people should follow suit. It's cos some women feel they have to be so damn loyal and the men take it for granted. If anything YOU should learn from this and not claim it's a joke cos this isnt the first time you've made comments about this

Perhaps I should just find a way to get your Yemi Blaq to take you away. I sha hope you dont have big frog eyes too cos that'll be just too much for a baby to handle.   

Btw Edo/Yoruba marriages are VERY high. loyal ko. royal ni.

Thanks. You've never (well, at least, as far as I remember) once said anything nice to me, about me

Never exactly been mean to you either

Just saying if you take the history of osu and take that of the caste system in Asia, there are similarities. take the "untouchables" for instance.

Can someone give that oloribu omo ashewo asinwin-elect a bottle btw so he can quit crying on my shoes? Thanks.

Let's ignore everything and pray it goes away.

ChinenyeN:

I can't comment on that. I'm not familiar enough with the Indian Caste System to draw any comparisions between that and Osu, It's just a stigma (psychological idea/mindset) associated with Osu. So I don't see how your comment of torment due to the Indian Caste System fits into this discussion.

Obviously I know more about it than you do then if you really cant see how they can be compared.

Since I know you're pretty intelligent, I'll just chalk it up to sheer denial