These are my frank thoughts about the fair (what a loaded term, if you ask me), puzzling sex. You may or may not like some of them, but then women matter a lot to me. You see, they are a recurring decimal in my life: mother, cousin, girlfriend, fiancée, colleagues, the list goes on.
I wonder where the human race, especially the specie that sprouts a shaft between their legs, got the idea that women are the weaker sex. No portion of the Bible has justified this idea to me. Muslims may help out with Quranic texts that back up this postulation. It may take a sperm and an egg to make a baby, but hey guys, try carrying one in your stomach for nine months and jumping onto the crazy ‘molue’ buses of Lagos. Ever heard of women starting a full-fledged shooting war over a man? I don’t mean the skirmishes between jealous wives or girlfriends stripping each other naked in the night-club over a playboy. I mean a regular war, with all the army and equipment. History is yet to reveal such information to me. But centuries before Christ, tough Greek and Trojan warriors butchered each other over a blue-eyed sexy piece called Helen. Talk of feminine strength. Need I bore you with the story of Deborah who had to go to war alongside a scared Barak, despite the former’s assurance of God’s protection? Read up the account in the biblical book of Judges.
The feats of women, both good and bad, in the days of yore and in our time, speak for themselves. Thus they deserve respect. Even in the bedroom women are known to do unprepared men in. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, spearheaded by the West-though my Igbo ancestors knew the truth centuries back-women are becoming conscious of their anatomical prowess in the sweet sport. Stud or not, brother, if you cannot take on a woman in the red-hot throes of love, sheath your sword. Fredrick Forsyth was right when he wondered in his novel ‘Icon’ ‘why God had so arranged things that the appetites of a love-hungry woman would always exceed the capacity of a male’ Ever heard of a sex strike? In parts of Igboland of Eastern Nigeria, sex strikes or ‘mgbachiukwu’ by women brought the pre-colonial/traditional establishment to its knees.
No pretence, I like women. With all their charm, their appeal, their flighty, even their silly ways, their wisdom and their stupidity. Every woman I have met, irrespective of the situation, has an indefinable ethereal quality that I savoured, even if unconsciously. This has nothing to do with sex appeal or the animal (and we are all animals, if Darwin and Co. are right) pull between man and woman. The dumbest woman has it. Honestly, there are quite a number of women who will make even Job sick with their attitude to life. For crying out loud, when a woman thinks solely of fashion, hair-dos, social status show-offs, husbands and becoming baby-production factories, that is a big disservice to the female folk, nay, the human race. True, these things are not bad, but many women go over the top because of them.
What would anywhere be like without women? World military leaders must have recognized this, hence the opening up of space in combat in recent decades. Of course the irregular forces and even terrorists always accorded Eve’s daughters their rightful places. I would get out fast from any working-place if there wasn’t at least one woman there. Whether she has buck teeth or rabbit ears or frying-pan flat breasts is irrelevant. A woman is different from a man and that difference counts if life is to be enjoyed.
Ever seen a woman with conviction? Boy, she is a real ball of fire (no pun intended). Sometime ago I listened to Dora Akunyili, the boss of Nigeria’s National Food and Drugs Control Agency, as she talked about her war against fake drug merchants over the BBC. I was charged, and would have strangled any of these traffickers of death without trial. You better watch it if you are with a woman who really believes in something or someone. Whether her convictions are right or wrong is unimportant. There are prostitutes who are as devoted to their work as female pastors. If you must fight a woman with conviction be doubly armed. Women have an innate clarity of mind; their minds are uncluttered once they home in on a target like a falcon.
There are men like that. Ever heard Nuhu Ribadu of Nigeria’s EFCC and Osama bin-Laden speak? But most men tend to carry a lot of baggage. Women don’t Guess that is why in times of great resistance or partisan wars, they are usually spies or killers in the deadliest theatre-the enemy commander’s bed chamber.
A woman in love is a sight for sore eyes. I know this from experience. Love is tonic for both sexes, but when a woman loves –I mean the real thing-she makes the world a lovely place. Her smiles ease your heart; her kisses make your sleep easy; and her words turn you into a giant. It releases the hormones of life in both of you. That is why we should never tell women ‘I love you’ when we mean ‘I want you for the night’. And don’t start the love business if you cannot or will not finish it. The gash the wound leaves in a woman’s soul never totally heals.
It is only fair to say that the greatest capacity for evil in the human race is with the female homo sapiens. Before the sisters bash my head in, look at this scenario objectively: do you think Adam would have eaten the damned apple (or any other fruit it was) if another guy had fed him the crap from the snake? I don’t mean that Adam had no free will or that he was incapable of resisting temptation. But a sweet kiss from Eve’s cherry-red lips, honeyed words accompanied by her pressing her supple, sexy body on his, (body no be wood, as we say in Nigeria), and perhaps she feeding him the apple--- you see what I mean?
In case you do not know, every woman abides in these areas of power:
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sex appeal-men have killed their fathers because of a woman’s private part;
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emotional manipulation-a woman can weep buckets even when her heart is full of amusement. But if her emotions are sincere she could also be a bomb;
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tongue/persuasive ability;
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aura/spiritual key-no offence, sisters, but I have discovered that a greater number of demon cases in revival services and crusades are women. Also, true female Christian/Muslim believers are lethal spiritual warriors. Check out dreaded shrines in parts of Africa and the Middle East. Women were the priestesses and spokespersons of the gods in many of them.
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childbearing role (this avenue for domination is diminishing in societies where the premium on childbearing is declining).
The powers of women have done the human race a lot of harm. This is because of the way women channel them and their underlying motives/convictions. Yet these powers have equally been channels for great good by millions of notable and ordinary women through the ages. In their daily struggles in a less than fair world, women have proved their mettle. Both sexes must appreciate this if the world must continue to be a cosmos instead of the chaos our evils are turning it into.
So sisters, ride on.
by
henrykd2009@yahoo.com
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