Sunday, 24 September 2017

Nigeia female looters would not be judged so harshly if they were men says Chimamanda

 Novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, said this while speaking at the university of Edinburgh. She said: “We shouldn’t assume, that because a person is born a woman, that person is somehow is just one step lower than angel.



I find it quite dehumanizing for women because what is means is that women cannot be judged on the same terms as men. I remember once a politician in Nigerian who was a woman, had stolen money which is an exercise most nigerian politicians are very adept at.

She was pilloried, I remember a jounalist saying and she’s a woman. Somehow the assumption was it will be better if she was a man because then Nigerians would not judge her harshly since we expect men to steal.

I think the idea of women being another specie of angel is bad for both women and men because it makes the standards uneven.”

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