Award-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has taken a swipe at some Nigerian feminists who hide behind feminism to be nasty.
Chimamanda in a viral video interview warned Nigerian feminists to stop using feminism to justify their wickedness.
According to her, some young Nigerian ladies in the name of feminism sound really mean and ‘nasty’ which is not the aim of feminism.
Chimamanda said: “I say to young Nigerian feminists – please do not use feminism to justify your wickedness.”
“Sometimes, I see some of these young ladies and when talking to them, they sound really mean, and I say to them this isn’t feminism; you’re just being nasty.”
Feminism in the world today aims to combat gender inequality and oppression of women in the society.
Chimamanda who identifies as a feminist once said: “This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come: this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because, don’t we want it to be mainstream?
“For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed. I think academic feminism is interesting in that it can give a language to things, but I’m not terribly interested in debating terms.
“I want people’s marriages to change for the better. I want women to walk into job interviews and be treated the same way as somebody who has a penis.”
“Beware the danger of what I call Feminism Lite; the idea of conditional female equality. Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and women, or you do not.”
“Teach your daughter to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans. Men who, when discussing rape, will say something like, “If it were my daughter or wife or sister”, yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy.”