Naija Men and Traditional Norms

... Is the future making sense?

Some ladies call this love with no bounds, unconditional love!

See how life is treating men. I'm sure some ladies won't mind all men being like this!

I wonder if this is love, madness, slavery or evil machination? May this never be our portion.

I hear the men say a loud AMEN!!!

Peeps on blogsville, I nearly got my rosy cheeks slapped this morning because of this picture and the message right beside it. How e take happen? Where e take happen? I go yarn una make una chill…lol

This picture and message started its journey of circulation this morning in my office o and it raised so many unpleasant comments from the guys or rather a large percent of the guys.

“Why would I do dishes and tie my own child on my back? Na jazz?!”…One guy said.

“God forbid, the woman must have washed kurukurru from her private part into the guy’s soup! Afiam!!” Another mumu guy chirped in.

“Ha!!!! If Na me, my mama go don come from village come organize serious deliverance for me” (Indeed dumb skull! Mchew!!!)

And bladibladibla…na so they raked on and on and won’t stop o.

Ewoooooooooooooo! I just can’t believe!!! So guys in this present age can open their rotten mouth and talk like this? When will unnecessary pride and ego end in these naija men’s lives? When will they open their eyes and just see some things and just wake up from traditional slumber?
And we go talk sey we read book and we wan better pass our papas, grand and great grand papas!!!!

Why some of them go school self? Why not sit in the village and keep up with the maintenance of the family farm? Mchewwww!

It got to a stage where I cum put my own join and that was when serious katakata burst and some guy nearly slap my face. What I said shey? Okay I said bobos wait o, but you don’t have to tie the baby on your backs now, you can just strap it with a Baby Strap in front of you and embrace it warmly and that was when the argument transcend to another level entirely.

“Sassy, shut up and stop staying rubbish! Why would I strap my child in front of me when I’m not a kangaroo? Only kangaroos are designed to do that. My wife won’t even dare strap my own baby like that in front of her chest, she have to tie him properly at her back the traditional way. This is not yankee, this is African!” “That is why this days’ kids are so daft… my mother tied me on her back, she no strap me with baby strap.” (Story!)

Oooooooooooooooo…… okay oooo! Na so all the ladies for our office –it’s a pity they are just few of us – started serious wahala with our bobos dem o.

Eweee! Na so I talk ooo. Abi people, wetin una go talk? I’m so dazed and pissed off at the same time.

These are the same guys that embrace modern norms like hugging a fellow female colleague and giving them a peck on both sides of their cheeks as a mode of greetings (How dem no go like that one?! Guinea fowls!!!) Na that kain tradition dem fit inculcate from the western world ba? But to strap dem own pikin for front na big deal and dem wife too must not do that 'cos according to their newly made theory "Strapping a baby on your chest will automatically turn the baby to a mumu, Babies should be tied to their Mother's back"… goddam moda f**kers!

Shey na working class woman go dey carry iro and oja about abi?
One was even like that is against the Yoruba tradition! Biko abeg make we see road. Chei!!!

How una dey jare?

...xxx

SASSY