VOLTA HALL AND THE FUTURE OR FUTILITY OF FERMINISM.

We went to Volta hall the following day. I realized that my friend was nervous. He was intimidated by the sheer elegance and the feminine magnificence of the place. You have not seen anything yet. I told him. Even though some may imagine Volta to be the den of and the cavern where the philanderers, the hedonists and the debaucheries and pleasure seekers of the wildest nature retreat to satisfy their debased and filthy desires, some of the ladies here are firmly convinced that what men can do in the modernist and intellectual sense of the word they can do and even better. They are firmly rooted in feminism and for them equality and to a lesser extent egalitarianism is not just a mere ideological shadow invented by women to push themselves forward and unleash the traditional shackles of inferiority and self abasement, disparity and denigration. It is not just a path for women to emerge from the path engulfed by myth and crude mystification. But a concrete and valid step, for them equality is a reality and those in the forefront know that it has already being achieved. In fact, they have demonstrated the validity of their ideas. But despite all these efforts, and other hard measures taken by women to be recognized, they are still grappling with the popular sentiments conspicuously expressed by men that they belong to the hearth and home.

This is how somebody put it who I think was a cuckold if not a misogynist.

He said. Eagles eat not men until they are dead but
a woman will devour them alive for a woman will pick your pocket and empty your purse, laugh in your face and cut your throat, they are ungrateful, perjured, full of fraud, flouting and deceitful, inconstant, waspish, toyish, light sullen, proud, discourteous and cruel. My friend was appalled by the devastating views of some men against women. This is too strong. This is a devilish philosophy he said. But it is difficult to judge a woman’s character. Women are like the ocean. Know body knows what is hidden in its mysterious depths. They can create and can destroy. What men must do is to recognize the immense role they are playing in the society. I hate identifying myself with feminism. Feminism is an empty word. And even how many women do understand the word feminism. We Africans are interested in words. I think the issue at stake is that women must be recognized and treated as equals.

My friend cleared his throat and corroborated what I said. Men and women have intimidated and weakened women with the appalling myth that they are inferior to men. And when women succumb to this unfounded dogma, the men get absolute control over them. Now let us look at the relationship between women to woman. The relationship is not always healthy. When a woman grows old, she automatically becomes a witch. An affluent well-educated woman will retch and isolate herself from an uneducated woman. Now that they are in the forefront of their struggle for equality and recognition, the same women are undermining the process. For we have many women around whose dress code alone degrades womanhood. So many young girls striding campus for a higher education in the name of modernity are tainting the image of women at the crucial moment of their fight for emancipation. .