\”I AM A WOMAN\” STOP ABUSING AND LOOKING DOWN ON ME FOR WHO I AM.

I AM A WOMAN!!!

So what?

I get into an argument

with a man, he slaps me,

I feel the pain, yet they

tell me I provoked him. I

should have been quiet, I

should have been patient.

I should apologize to him.

I get into an argument

with a man, I slap him,

they tell me I have no

respect, no home

training. I should have

been quiet, I should have

been patient. I should

apologize to him.

Because I am a woman, I

don\’t have a right to be

angry. So, the degree of

my innocence is directly

proportional to the

degree of my silence in

the face of oppression

and brutality…..

Because I am a woman,

my husband cheats on

me, I am told to tolerate it

to save my marriage. The

barbaric and stupid

excuse is that \’\’it is in

their nature to cheat, I

should slim down, dress

better, cook better, pray

harder and be more

pleasant to him\”

I cheat, and I am called a

whore, I have committed

an abomination, I have no

right to look elsewhere

for the love and

emotional support I lack

at home, I am an

irresponsible mother.

So I am sent packing,

from the home we both

built, with all my earthly

possessions stuffed into

a tiny box on my head. I

am henceforth forbidden

from seeing my two older

children, I\’m lucky to be

allowed to go with my

little one still sucking on

my left breast. Three

years later, the little one

is tagged a bastard. Now,

my new name is \”after-

three\”, because I am a

woman.

He is 28 and runs a

company. He\’s tagged

wonderful, hardworking,

focused, career oriented,

successful at a very

young age.

I am 28 and I run a

company \”Hmmmm….

she is not even married,

unserious, can not order

her priorities right, a

hustler, loves money, let

her go and get a husband

oh\”

And I wonder if being

successful has anything

to do with a person\’s

gender.

Because I am a woman,

I am not allowed to have

wits or be a prodigy, I

cannot be financially

buoyant, professionally

successful or be treated

with respect without a

man beside me.

Then I am tagged a

generous leg opener, \”a

runs girl\”. They never see

the possibility that I

actually had to go

through ups and downs

to get to where I am,

because I am a woman.

A man looses his wife to

death and remarries a

year after, he did the right

thing, he\’s being praised

and congratulated for

moving on, after all life is

for the living.

A woman looses her

husband to death and

remarries after 4yrs,

\”aaah! so early? Are u

sure she wasn\’t sleeping

with that man even when

her husband was alive?

That was why she killed

her husband. She\’s a

witch! Because she\’s a

woman. But don\’t

forget, that what makes a woman does not make her less human!

A Woman has

the most unique

character like salt! Her

presence is never

remembered, but her

absence makes all the

things tasteless.

This is dedicated to all women and girl child, help protect them!

PC: #Imodils

Credits: Mitchell Akela Williams [Editor]