MONDAY MORNING MEDITATION: Bring Back Our Men And Our Girls Will Return! But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. ~ Exodus 1:17, ESV ... Something tells me that #BringBackOurGirls might qualify as the most superficial movement in history. Hundreds of millions of social media handles and counting! From little babies whose parents wore the tag and posted their pictures on Facebook, to thousands of street marches and Michelle Obamas passionate plea. From our First Ladys dramatic there is God oo to Odumakins proposal that women may go half naked into the Sambisa forest. Let me leave off Atiku and Tinubu whose hurried versions with Naira sign (instead of the hashtag) qualify for the Placard of the Year Award. (Perhaps, the Naira sign was mischievously photoshopped by someone who didnt like them.) What makes me sad is that were trying to solve this problem at the same level of consciousness that created it - something Einstein called dumb. Were blurring strategic thinking with social media frenzy and substituting calculated action with politics. Were chasing one big snake in the forest while harboring a million snake eggs in our backyard! ... By now, everybody knows the protagonist of this terror, Abubakar Shekau. And a dozen confusing Northern conspiracy theories levitating the Nigerian skies like ominous drones. No one has yet to ask the most pertinent question about boko haram, namely, who was Shekaus father? And where were the men when Shekau was just a baby snake? = The Alarming Male Crisis = Was it T. D. Jakes or Myles Munroe who once mentioned a survey carried out in the prisons of America. Over 95% of the incarcerated criminals had no FATHER INFLUENCE. Coincidence? No. Male crisis? Yes. If we should worry about anything today, it is not the economy or 2015 elections. It is the trending scarcity of real men. Two or so years ago, thousands of divorced women poured into the streets of Kano demanding the government to find husbands for them. Kano City alone has 1,000,000 divorced women! A similar protest played out in Zamfara State where the women requested the government to compel the men to marry more than one wife so that all the excess women could be mopped up. ... Recently, twenty highly successful women in their mid forties, long time friends from secondary school, had a re-union. One of them said, Ogbo, out of the twenty of us, only one is still married. The rest of us are single mothers, separatees and divorcees. Each of us has our tales about the men in our lives. Domestic violence. Infidelity. Inability to provide. Mamas boys. Immature. Indecisive. Lack of discipline. Zero vision. Zero initiative. Responsibility shy. Poor thinking. Weak father figure to their children. ... A younger single woman tells me a similar story. Among her generation of girl friends are numerous casualties of marriage - single mothers, separated and divorced. Several suitors have approached her but their profile is no different from the ones who married her peers. Saying yes to them would mean repeating history. = Why Husbands Are Scarce = ... A crippling, emasculated father figure and a lame duck male image is our societys stage four cancer. Because men have become spiritual castrates and moral apostates, women have been forced to take up the traditional leadership roles in the family institution meant for men. Men are out of work and so women feed them, pay the children’s school fees and other family bills. Women attend the PTA meetings. They do the school runs and the children’s homework with them. They lead the family altar! They make the most important decisions in the family while the men are out drinking and watching football matches. ... And what’s more? All the critical touchpoints in the life of your child are manned by women. The principal or headmistress is a woman; your children’s teachers at school and in church are women. The TV anchors are women. The actresses that influence your sons the most are women. The top role models are Kim Kardasian and her species.The adverts on the billboards along our streets and expressways are women. Even the most beautiful girl in Nigeria is a woman! ... Just two or three weeks ago, during the induction ceremony of freshly minted Pharmacists at a University close to me, the Provost who represented the Vice Chancellor was a woman. The NAFDAC representative at the event was female. The Representative from the College of Medicine was female. The Dean of the College of Pharmacy was female. Of the graduating students, eight had distinction. All eight were female. I once attended a prize-giving ceremony of a secondary school. Over 75% of the academic prizes were collected by girls. Our society is grossly tilted to the feminine. Not good. ... The Doomsday Clock should be set, not to the severity of nuclear, environmental, and technological threats but to the prevailing male crisis in our society. Nietzsche would describe the men of this generation as men who owe their existence to mere chance. = Finally My Bros, Manhood is not Penis! = ... I knew we would run into serious trouble the moment we started equating manpower and manhood to the penis. We started calling it prick. It graduated to brokos. Now it is manhood! A Fulani woman approached me three weeks ago with her manpower merchandise: Oga, your wife go like am no be small. If you drink am, na so e go stand reach four days. A four-day long erection? How does that put food on my familys table? ... We have a generation of men who compete, not on the size of their brain, but the length of their penis! No wonder Viagra is the most sold drug in the history of pharmacy! Lets #BringBackOurMen and we would never have to worry about #BringBackOurGirls. Any society that neglects the male child is destined to lose sleep. I want to help every little boy on my path connect to authentic manhood. The way you raise a girl child is not the way you raise a boy! I want to support parents with tools to help them raise their boys to men. Will you join me? Meanwhile, O Lord, crush the testicles of terror in Northern Nigeria! Protect, grant tact and courage to our military to bring our children back. Make our joy complete and let us hear the good news soon! Amen. I love you. Have a lovely week. And dont forget to remain healthy, wealthy and wise!
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 06:25:21 +0000
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