₦airaland Forum

Viicfuntop:
I have been on nairaland since 2016. I know everything, trust me. My old moniker was Vicfuntop, so I know

Viicfuntop:
Don’t worry, you have nothing to fear

vizkiz:
And who told you I am in Nigeria at the moment and not Europe?

Which 9ja babes?

I go swear for you oh.

Twoclans:


Morning dear, trust you are completely okay now

vizkiz:
Kia... Gettaway from hia. So you don't want to see my pre-wedding picture this yeah abi?

Viicfuntop:
Honestly being friends on the forum for a while is better before proceeding to the outside

Twoclans:
Nothing is clearer my dear. The boot marks mean nothing. A friend of mine was kidnapped last year the Fulani guys who kidnapped him were wearing military outfits.The evidence is not enough to say it's the military.

The country will surely pay for all this innocent blood it's spilling.

vizkiz:
I guess it is because Beautiful women are always laughing at little things

Dpussyhunter:
when you were in naija before you went to italy abi


and the big deal is this awon slay queen said she was from awon UK (united kingdom) when truely she is an egbon from awon UK (Uwakanda kingdom)

Saff:
I wonder what wrong with fetching water? When I was in naija I used to fetch water on my head, I can still post pictures and slay. What’s the big deal?

Lalas247:
Born in Germany actually ... so I can only be stripped if I neutralised ... I didn’t birth certificate is European ... so the can deport me to Germany last last
But can’t be stripped even if I commit murder
You said it yourself , rapist do small stuff till opportunity arrives ... do u know who that guy could have raped ! So I could have saved several souls hence why He served his time ..

I don’t know every woman but if you did a poll you will find men do it more and if women do maybe in America l.. I’m just speaking on England and Nigeria. I’m just saying I have never seen a woman grab a main deek at Lagos island or here ... even if u ask any female she will be like it does nothing for us anyway ...
was I not in Lagos few weeks back .. even at the airport see them grabbing my arm all sorts of bushery

It is not shocking to see Lagos police announce such trash .. havent you noticed the respect men don’t have for women main,y in Africa but some are coming out of the cave Naija refuse too .. its like they have condition their citizens to see women as lesser being .
I was watching a gender reveal party where the man walk off cause it’s a girl ! Can u imagine ! You will NEVER SEE SUCH HERE! NEVER

If men don’t come forward that’s simply their misplaced Egos working has nothing to do with females ... if a guy press my yansh again I will do the same thing why ? I didn’t give him any consent to do so

Even as a Man, U slap a chic on the road ... my dear u will get locked up ! If a man slaps a woman in Nigeria what happens nothing! So I understand why they treat women that way .. cause they have been conditioned to do so ...Lawless Country
Shalom

Lalas247:
Pretending to be ?

khiaa:
He finds it a joy to provide for my needs so stay in your lane. I haven't gone anywhere, I have been here all of my life so what do you mean about changing or not changing?

khiaa:
I'll come for the three months of summer and you can provide for me the whole time. I'm going to need food, clothing, entertainment, transportation, ummmm, what else do I need oh yeah CASH!!!

sirusX:
At least...the media has a way of blessing people

I only wish it was more to those who really need it cz a little could go a long way to making a difference in the life of others

Twoclans:
I might not completely agree with you. I am a Nigerian lady and I support feminism.Anybody who does not support is not very clear about what it entails. Let me give you a small illustration of something I witnessed a few years ago.

I attended the burial ceremony of my friends dad. . As at that time only his female children where working and earning money. The boys were just serving the mandatory NYSC. The man had also suffered money issues before he died. You know how crazy and money draining igbo burials can be.The girls brought all the money for that burial ceremony.

Fast forward to the burial proper,in igbo land it's usually the boys/men that sit at the table receiving guest that come for condolence. The man was a high society man so most of his club members,associates and friends brough money to that table as gifts for the family. But guss what nobody in that family remembered that it's the girls who brought the funds for the preparation. The boys shared all the money received at that table just because females are not allowed to sit at the table according to custom.

If gender equality was considered in this case would it not have favoured the girls.

Twoclans:
I might not completely agree with you. I am a Nigerian lady and I support feminism.Anybody who does not support is not very clear about what it entails. Let me give you a small illustration of something I witnessed a few years ago.

I attended the burial ceremony of my friends dad. . As at that time only his female children where working and earning money. The boys were just serving the mandatory NYSC. The man had also suffered money issues before he died. You know how crazy and money draining igbo burials can be.The girls brought all the money for that burial ceremony.

Fast forward to the burial proper,in igbo land it's usually the boys/men that sit at the table receiving guest that come for condolence. The man was a high society man so most of his club members,associates and friends brough money to that table as gifts for the family. But guss what nobody in that family remembered that it's the girls who brought the funds for the preparation. The boys shared all the money received at that table just because females are not allowed to sit at the table according to custom.

If gender equality was considered in this case would it not have favoured the girls.

rainylad:
Dude,you guys are really really really frustrated and perpetually angry and bitter especially on Nairaland....That can only be caused by being death-poor and hungry...Check out you guys comments on Romance section against females...It is filled with do much bile its not even funny

No self-respecting guy who is comfortable has time for the bull-shitt you guys do here...

P.s...'Big boys' are stiil giving women money till tomorrow...Wretched folks on Nairaland can cry tall they want but its a fact..

Goodbye.

Ayohbk:
Following the outrage that ensued over Renowned writer and unapologetic feminist, Chimamanda Adichie's questioning of Hillary Clinton's use of "Wife" as the first descriptor on her Twitter bio, during a conversation at the PEN world voices festival. The writer has taken to Facebook page to reply critics, cynics and haters. Read below.



Dear Unnamed Person Who I Am Told Is On Social Media Saying I am Her Family and Telling Me to Shut Up:

Cynicism is ugly. It doesn’t flatter anyone. Yours doesn’t suit you at all.

I remember you vaguely; I think you were in my class in primary school. And now you claim to be my ‘family’ and you are asking me to shut up.

Did you watch the video of the conversation? Did you read a full transcript?

I am tired of Nigerians who read a headline and, without bothering to get details and context, jump on the outrage bandwagon and form lazy, shallow opinions.

I am tired of Nigerians cynically thinking of anybody in public life as a ‘brand.’ No, I am not a brand. I am a person who feels strongly about certain issues. I choose to talk honestly about them. I made the choice to talk about feminism knowing very well the kind of hostility it brings – but I think it’s important and I will continue to speak my truth and hope to bring about some change, no matter how small. Adirom agba egwu ka m data ego.

No, of course you don’t actually deserve a response, but I have some free time today. So I want to make you feel a little important because it sounds like you need it.

And I want to reflect on an absolutely lovely hour spent on stage with Hillary Clinton.

I was happy when I was told that Hillary Clinton had specifically requested to be in conversation with me at the PEN World Voices festival. I am an unapologetic fan of Ms. Clinton’s. I have been for many years.

I felt quite emotional when I met her. Having read and followed her for years, it was moving to see her: the warm, human, observant, present, thoughtful person (and looking wonderful, with her hair and makeup on point!).

She said she had read my books and I restrained myself from doing cartwheels.

“Is there anything you don’t want to talk about?” I asked backstage.

“Ask me anything,” she said.

Towards the end of our conversation, I told her how, having read her writing about her own life, I think she has a great love story with Bill Clinton. A wonderful friendship. I said I feel irritated and protective of her when people dissect her personal life, but I also confessed to having an interest myself, particularly about her public Twitter profile. (I first noticed it when I was researching a piece about her during the presidential campaign). I was upset that the first word used to describe her was ‘wife.’ Was it a choice she had made or was it something done for her campaign and, if it was a choice she had made, did she think my reaction to it was fair?

Her response was very thoughtful.

I was too excited, emotional, slightly nervous, to be on stage with this remarkable woman. Had I kept in mind how easily outrage-mongers would jump on a headline, I would have phrased my question better. I would not have made it about my being upset, because it can come across as navel-gazing.

But the truth is that we were supposed to be having a ‘conversation,’ the context of our conversation was personal and warm, I had made the decision to speak from the heart, and it would be dishonest to pretend that I had not reacted personally to so many issues around Ms. Clinton, whose life has become a kind of crucible of all the questions that affect women.

We all react personally to public figures. And I WAS upset that the Twitter bio of a woman who is the most accomplished person to run for President of the United States, would begin with ‘wife.’ And considering her personal history, it just didn’t seem to fit.

I felt that ‘wife’ was used as an attempt to placate all the men and women who will not vote for a woman unless they are able to see her FIRST in domestic terms.

Yes, it’s just Twitter. But it matters. It’s a public platform. It’s where people go to hear directly from her.

And there is context to consider.

In LIVING HISTORY, Ms.Clinton writes that the two most difficult decisions she has made in her life were staying married to Bill Clinton and running for the senate seat in New York.

Women, especially women in public life, face a lot of societal pressure about how to be, how to live, much more than men do. Women in public life are considered ‘cold’ and ‘un-relatable’ unless they define themselves in domestic terms. Women’s accomplishments are often considered incomplete unless they have also ticked the ‘marriage’ box. These things are not true of men, even though marriage can be a wonderful thing for both men and women.

Feminism is indeed about choice. But it is intellectually lazy to suggest that, since everything is about ‘choice,’ none of these choices can be interrogated. Choices are never made in a vacuum. And sometimes, for women, choices are not always real choices.

After she got married, Ms. Clinton kept her name, but she was so viciously criticized for this that she then took on her husband’s name. Was this a ‘choice?’ Would she have done so if she wasn’t being attacked and if she didn’t want to feel responsible for her husband’s potential losing of votes?

During the last presidential campaign, she was expected to account for the policies of her husband’s administration. She was labeled an enabler of sexual harassment. She was accused of cynically staying married because she wanted to benefit politically.

Much of Ms. Clinton’s public image is a caricature of a person who is untrustworthy, calculated, cold, dishonest. That caricature has its roots in her early public life when she was the First Lady of Arkansas.

Her crime was that she did not conform to the traditional role of First Lady. She had kept her name. She clearly considered herself to be her husband’s equal partner. She did not intend merely to be a Wife. She had her own dreams, her own ambition. She dared to say that she wasn’t planning on ‘staying home and baking cookies,’ which was not about denigrating stay-at-home mothers but simply about saying that that was not what she wanted to do.

A small comment about a small thing, but it was significant and revolutionary because she was consciously resisting the status quo.

But she was attacked for that. Horrendously. And those attacks were repeated so often that they stuck and they contributed to her being reduced to a caricature.

It was therefore upsetting to see her first descriptor as ‘wife.’ The question isn’t about including ‘wife’ in her Twitter bio. The question is about giving ‘wife’ a certain primacy as the first word that describes her, and it speaks to larger questions about the societal expectations placed on women.

Ms. Clinton wrote in her most recent book WHAT HAPPENED, that she ran for president because she thinks she would have been a ‘damned good president.’

She certainly would have been. And so I suggested, half-joking, that ‘Would have been a damned good president’ is a perfect Twitter bio start. And then mother and wife and grandma and Senator and hair icon etc could follow!

I completely stand by my question and by my conviction that it is a subject that matters.

I had a truly enlightening evening on that stage with Ms. Clinton, and was once again awed by her grit, her humanity, her sparkling intelligence.

After the conversation, Ms. Clinton told me, “It was like talking to a friend.” She is now my Aunty For Life.

Oh, as for YOU, Unnamed Person, saying that I am ‘family’ to you, mbakwa biko. The people I consider family don’t ‘do petty.’

Saying “shut up” to a woman who airs an opinion is so unoriginal. Try and be a bit more inventive.

Try reasoning. Try intelligent debate. Try understanding things in context before you reveal your ignorant misogyny to the world. Try reading more than a headline. Try reading a whole book. Or two. And please keep talking. Keep speaking. Don’t ever shut up.

~CNA