Women Have Been Mocked By Many, It’s Time For It To Stop- Joy Isi-Bewaji

Joy Isi Bewaji has expressed her sadness on her Facebook page
about how women have been mocked over the years and how people can’t go on about
their daily lives without mocking them. She says the joke has been on
women and she thinks it has to stop. Below is what she wrote.

The easiest joke to tell is on a woman- her form, her
ambitions, her wishes. From Chris Rock to Basketmouth, the thigh-slapping jokes
are yarns that denigrate women. We unconsciously enjoy the beat-down of the
woman. Half the memes on social media are jokes on women and what society
thinks of her.

It’s so bad that people can’t find humour in a lot of things
if it isn’t centred around women and s*x. Look at our comedy industry, how many
political jokes do they tell?

Trevor Noah can go for hours without reference to a woman’s
anatomy, her makeup, her weave, her man or lack of one, or her status. Not
Nigerians. And strangely, not many African American acts can.

We need to re-educate ourselves.

Many people are too stereotyped they can’t even begin to
think of a life out of the mental prison they subject themselves to.

I work with a group of young and passionate writers… but I
realise they aren’t growing. They have become automatons who just dish out
gossip and entertainment- copy and paste extraordinaire. Fastest-finger sport
that eats away your hours, eats away your life.

So last week, I announced we shall have one hour every other
day (three times in a week) to talk thoroughly on any trending issues. Three
topics per session. Detailed discuss. Amanpour style.

I am tired of airheads.

And it is an airheaded decision when you refuse to change a
culture that continues to demean the woman.

Go to AY shows. Well, the last time I went was, say, four
years ago; and I never paid for any comedy show since then.

AY will yab all the women in the world, then talk glowingly
about his wife.

It is the stupidest thing people do.

The “king of comedy” in Nigeria, Ali baba, enjoys dishing
out instructions to women. Instructions that place him above the woman, in
control of her aspirations; that signifies he is of a better stock. I can never
understand it.

But we are no different from them.

Now this post is running everywhere because there’s just so
much we need to unlearn.

Some of those anti-female memes about worshiping the feet of
a cheating partner is actually a deliberate attempt to provoke amusement and
unhealthy- point blank idiotic- discussions.

It is done intentionally to get people talking- because the
creators know topics like that is the best tonic and kickback for a s*xist
world.

I don’t engage in any kind of discussions around daft s*xist
memes.

I don’t engage in beating a woman down.

I beat fools down and they can come in any s*x.

But I deliberately will always try to save a woman.

My attempts are deliberate.

Women have been mocked for centuries.

So I’m telling you- You either get another hobby or get out
of “business”. Because things have to change.

My daughters will not inherit the world as it is, and its
s*xist glee. Things have to change.

People don’t even know when they are being s*xist.

If you take out their knack for kicking a woman, you’d
realise they’d become empty shells. Their entire being is made of s*xist fibre.

I don’t know. I don’t know.