Women can do without men

A couple of interesting articles caught my eye this week. One on BBC’s news website read, “Do African women still need men anymore?” The Daily Nation also published the article, “My nightmare of a marriage. And our very own New Times wrote about “Feminism and the male Brain.” Some of these articles highlighted how big the size of the male brain is but with no relevance to their thinking. Others discussed the small nonsensical complaints the men make to their wives. The Daily Nation went as far publishing testimonies from battered Kenyan men. Yes I said battered and I mean by their wives. According to BBC, Honourable Eziuche Ubani, a member of the Nigerian National Assembly, argued that women today have the same earning potential as men, can have babies without men and can do any job a man can. He believes African men are becoming irrelevant. No matter how much African men have tried remaining traditional, there has been a wake up call all over the continent. Empowered women no longer accept the traditional norm where women are inferior and are subjected to senseless submissiveness often based on muscles. The Daily Nation tried to convince women to stand and understand how the men’s brains work. The Kenyan newspaper by explained in detail about hippocampus -the part of the brain where initial memories are formed. According to the paper, the male brain contains a smaller percentage of hippocampus when compared to women. “If on your first date the man can’t remember where you work, even though you told him all about it when you met, just remember that size matters. Hippocampus size, that is. Don’t take it personally. Oh, and don’t be surprised when, months down the line, he has no clue you’ve just changed your hair.” The reporter explained. Ever wondered why women manage small businesses and even the big ones better than men? Studies from Harvard University showed that women are the best listeners in the world, meaning they pick up details from a conversation which men would normally miss. Women are more patient, they can multi-task very easily and to top it all they cooperate with their team mates better than men. In the same breath, a Canadian study showed that the female sex hormone oestrogen boosts a woman’s immune systems, therefore giving them an added advantage when fighting off infection. There is no doubt too, that Rwanda has gone a step further to fish out all potential that women may have. The country now holds the “world record” with the composition of the lower house Parliament having close to 50 percent women. This has brought about positive gender social change. Rwanda abolished weird laws such as those that prevented women from inheriting property. There is also a positive correlation between women’s participation in public life and reduction in corruption because they tend to be more law abiding. Women have now become as financially stable as men. They are managing businesses as well as or even better than men. Consider the following, women health wise have a more powerful immune system, they can reproduce without men – thanks to sperm donors, then this brings me to the question, do women really need men? Believers of the bible often blame Eve for tempting Adam to eat the forbidden fruit. But, had the size of his brain measured up to his reasoning, the whole world would be a better place today. Because of his short sight, we now take Eve to be the intelligent witty woman that she was. I will not attempt going into Delilah and Samson’s saga lest I portray what men use to think. And, it’s definitely not the brain. If you know the Bible very well. In the book of Ruth chapter two clearly explains how Ruth was more intelligent than Boaz her boss. She decided to continue working on his fields to the point where they met in the threshing floor. This has nothing to do with feminism or biasness. These are simple day to day facts. karuthum@gmail.com