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Retooling Gender Advocacy

Feature Article Retooling Gender Advocacy
APR 16, 2014 LISTEN

I am a feminist of selectivity. I don't buy into certain advocacies for the fairer sex hook, line and sinker. Because I strongly believe some of the demands in the name of gender equality is bizarre and absurd and blindly turn to discriminate against the masculine.

I believe in positive discrimination but society ought to demarcate boundaries in exercising it with sagacity.

The dissonance of gender this and gender that will eventually create a New World Order of relegation of the male sex to leftovers.

A good fraction of the male sex are equally weak and deserve similar and equal privileges and opportunities like the female sex in all jurisdictions. So, I don't fancy the communist inferior tactics by some gender advocates who refer to women as the "weaker sex" - it is fiscal mobilization gimmick from donors and financiers or better still an ever elastic catchphrase of the business.

I am against male chauvinism but the modus operandi in propping up the imbalance will ultimately produce an imbalance. A re-order of nature.

Men are not in any competition with women but players in the gender equality industry keep on coining terminologies to entice donors to keep them in business.

It is about time we took a critical look at issues of gender equality based on scientific parameters rather than sensational over-embellishments of practically innocuous gender issues.

I unconditionally believe in empowering women but I don't support taking power from men and giving it to women.

I am a conscientious feminist!

Abdulai Hanan R. Confidence
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