(By Joy Isi Bewaji)
Parents, teach your daughters
dignity.
From wives fighting side-chicks
to desperate young women dragging the hem of one bloke, to women giving up
dreams and ambitions just to be with just about any man, to women dying in
marriages; this sad and filthy objective of becoming a leech under the façade
of culture; having children without income. This nonsense of a man telling a
grown ass woman, sometimes highly educated, not to have a job, has to stop! The
idea that a woman can sit and make no money under the pretext of motherhood and
marriage is frightening to even consider, especially in a society where alimony
is a pipe that holds no water.
We are still promoting the
position of a housewife as an honourable thing. How can that be when all you
have is determined by the disposition of another human – a man? How can being a
housewife and NOT making money be a good thing when you can lose everything the
minute a husband finds you less attractive, old, fat? How?
A man and his brother killed
his wife because he had to be with another woman. Women are treated as
disposable items because women will not stop being dependent on men and the
silly patriarchal ideals of dependency/entitlement wrapped around religion,
culture and society.
