Stella Damasus: Womens Rights

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Thursday, 5 October 2017

STELLA, DUMB IT DOWN!

"Stella, you are still single because you have raised your bar too high, you have set high expectations. You cannot afford to be too intelligent or knowledgeable because men don't like it. At the dinner table, you made him feel like you knew more than he did as regards social justice. Even if he didn't say it, I am sure he felt that way because he didn't ask for another date. Why do you keep doing this to yourself? It is a man's world, so in order to get hooked quickly, you need to DUMB IT DOWN"

WOMAN, I CHALLENGE YOU!

I sat down in my living room flipping through pages of a big history book just to make myself feel a little more intelligent. People who know me have come to realize that I love to read, not just to get information but also to expose my mind.

Anyway back to the history book I was reading.
I got to a chapter that said "TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON THE AMAZON QUEEN MYTHOLOGY". Trust that I took the test believing that I could at least score up to 50%. To my greatest shock I didn't even score up to 30% percent. There were too many names, stories and history that I did not know of.

So, I decided to read the full chapter and found the story to be extremely interesting. This may not be a big deal to some people but it is a big deal for me to know these stories, whether real or mythical.
Let me share a little bit of what I discovered and I hope you will find it interesting.

WHO IS THIS WOMAN?

If someone walks up to you and asks you, "what is the meaning of the word WOMAN?", what will your immediate answer be?
It is easy to define the word Banker, Aunty, Girlfriend, Husband, Cup, but how easy is it to define WOMAN?

People have tried to describe her, label her, understand her, put her in a box, handle her, fix her, measure her, define her and some have even tried to recreate her?

As simple as the word WOMAN is, everyone has a different definition.