SheResonance

Very recently, Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has this to say about the Senate President of Nigeria Akpabio  (as reported by Business Day ): “I’ll have a motion to pass and he’ll not let me. My husband would walk to him because they are friends and say ‘My wife has a very important bill, her constituency needs this, why don’t you give her a chance to speak?’ And he’ll say ‘next time’. “Each time I walk to him alone, he’ll tell me, ‘You know what, right here, I’m the chief presiding officer of the national assembly, so you have to please me, make me happy to get these privileges..." So what then is QUID PRO QUO SEXUAL HARASSMENT??? Quid pro quo is Latin word for something for something (an exchange). Of all of the varying types of sexual harassment, QUID pro quo Harassment has not received the deserved outrage because it has, for centuries, been wrongly categorised as transactional sex, workplace romance, choice and what have you. This is NOT TRANSACTIONAL SEX, rather, it is a situat...

I overheard my female neighbor (a grandma), telling male neighbours (a young bachelor) to "get a girlfriend that will be cooking for you".   I have encountered similar situations in time past and the convenient reply to elderly people's sexism is always "They are products of their time". And the truth is, this is just one out of hindered excuses employed to excuse sexism. If a young person had said Sam's, there would have been a 'great excuse to justify that. And I'm always caught in a squeeze because such arguments are always framed to seem like that kind of sexism will go away with the passing generation, but the reality is that the older generation do not take their sexism to the grave, they pass the baton to the younger generation.  Tomorrow, when the younger generation gets old, we will also excuse their sexism by blaming it on them  being 'the product of their time' So when will the the Misogyny end? At what point are they held accounta...