DEAR WOMAN, LIGHT YOUR SPOT
9:23 am
Recently I watched a video of our president, Buhari, say that his wife belongs to the kitchen, the living room and the other room ( I might need a little elaboration on that last one).
That statement has elicited a lot of response from people,some agreeing with him and others (mostly women) vehemently refusing. The thing is that no matter what you or anyone else says, he has said what he wanted to say.
Dear woman, whomever you may be, whatever you maybe doing and wherever you may be from, I want you to know that you are not defined by what anybody (including your husband) says, you are only defined by what you say and what you believe. Light your spot.
Your husband says you belong to the kitchen, good and fine, go and learn how to cook well, enter that kitchen and cook so well that he will be willing to give you the head of John the Baptist, then go out there and start a catering business.
Did he say you belong to the living room? No problem, be so good a host that his friends would always want to come around, then go out there and start an ushering company. Then did he say that you belong to the other room (truth be say I never really understand that one) do whatever is done there very well.
You do not belong to some rooms in the house, you belong to the whole damn house because you are the one that makes it a home. I am not a feminist, because feminists believe in gender equality, I on the other hand believe in gender superiority, the female being the greater.
Leave all this mouth that the men are running, the fact is that they cannot survive without us, even God saw how hopeless and helpless they were alone and created us to help them. They need us more than we need them.
Stop letting what the men say decide for you, you have a mind of your own, use it. You belong to the house (the entirety of it), you belong to the conference rooms, you belong to the stage, you belong to damn well anywhere you so wish but it all depends on you, stop complaining, stop playing to the background, stop letting what they say determine what you do.
You are greater (quote me anywhere) and whoever says otherwise should enter the labour room and give birth, or menstruate for a week with the accompanying pain or even think of what to serve as meal for a week. Let us stop debating on where we belong or do not belong, the world is your stage, light your spot.
#say no to child marriage
#say no to female circumcision #support education for the girl child #stop backbiting fellow women that are legally doing well for themselves #you are a queen, believe it
PS, dear future husband, the day you jokingly or seriously open your mouth and say I belong to the kitchen, living room and other room or even say that my work is to take care of you, you will explain to me whether I spent 21years and more of my life studying to become your nanny and you will be doing that outside the house because it won't contain the both of us. Just saying.
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