Feminism has gotten a really really bad rep on Nigerian Twitter. I mean, you’d think with all the times it has been discussed on our timelines, people would have finally gotten the plot. Sadly, that still isn’t so.
Case in point:
*Sighs heavily* Thankfully, we still have a number of people that totally get what the movement is about, and have refused to stop trying to enlighten others in their own way. Here are 9 tweets that really do the social movement justice:If your mom was feminist who woulda prepared your meals? huh?
— #ElderMonk (@TayoSays) August 19, 2015
1. Reducing Feminism to ‘domestic chores’ is extremely reductive.
Feminism is a lot more than who cooks and who washes boxers and who pays for dates. But for some reason that's what we keep discussing.
— weird fish (@Sick_Sage) July 22, 2015
2. Feminism isn’t just about celebrating women who excelled against all odds, it’s also about improving those odds for others.
https://twitter.com/TheLoulette/status/6333729538629263373. Feminism is in no way against meritocracy.
Feminism should be concerned with justice. Like any job, once it stops being of one's volition, it's something else. https://t.co/GHhbJz6qd8
— T. Rânkïn' (@AfroVII) July 31, 2015
4. Feminism, like all other social movements, should not be defined by their radicals.
Feminism isn't extremist. People just choose to have an extremist approach to it.
— מַלכָּה (@ladytiffs_) April 18, 2014
5. The medium used to speak up against inequality, should in no way delegitimize the message.
https://twitter.com/duchesskk/status/6241098125241671696. THIS!!!
https://twitter.com/MissIgho/status/6295691123484549127. Men, whether they are feminists or not, should never dictate what feminism should mean to women.
Lord, help us understand that men cannot dictate what feminism is to women.
— Wale Lawal (@WalleLawal) August 17, 2015
8. Feminism isn’t about women wanting to be like men, it’s about everyone being given the same opportunities regardless of gender.
I'm not a feminist because I want to be treated as a man or because I want men to be treated as women.
— Nas (@pam_E_chic) December 17, 2012
9. Feminism is NOT about man-bashing.
A lot of time people confuse man-bashing for feminism. A strong woman who recognises her self-worth and seeks to defend it is a feminist
— weird fish (@Sick_Sage) July 12, 2012
Please remember to share with your friends and followers, and you just might enlighten someone.
