Mz Andry

Please don't follow me. I'm not to everyone's taste.

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

This is the Nigerian “respect” problem in one tweet. We can mobilise an entire national ethics committee because somebody forgot “Sir”, but when something serious involves a powerful person, that same energy suddenly develops home training.

Our respect culture is remarkably good at policing people beneath power and remarkably poor at interrogating the people who hold it.

[Dikadi. @DikaOfoma]

that’s simply because nigerians are a bunch of dick suckers of moneyed people. the obsession with the topic and the harsh criticism the girl is getting is simply because they believe she disrespected a rich man. no other reason.

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

@simisola10 Ermm... but it's their policy. So why are you drinking panadol for someone else's headache?

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

“Not everyone is low class” gave the whole game away.

So this sermon was never really about respect. You believe some people occupy a higher social rank and everyone beneath them should know how to behave in their presence.

That explains why calling a billionaire by his first name becomes “moral bankruptcy”, while your own contempt for people you consider “low class” somehow qualifies as honour.

The irony is spectacular. You wrote paragraphs lecturing strangers about character and accidentally displayed your own classism.

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

@mobolajiA_ Sacked for calling her superior by his first name? 😂

Some of you don't want workplaces. You want a palace, complete with subjects who know when to kneel.

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

@UdyAsuquo @oshiam_Omede

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

@dharmmy_ Imagine being a grown woman and thinking another grown woman's parents should “cover their faces in shame” because she called a man Tony. This level of voluntary genuflection is embarrassing. Tony didn't ask you to defend the family honour, aunty. Please get up off your knees.

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

Imagine being a grown woman and thinking another grown woman's parents should “cover their faces in shame” because she called a man Tony. This level of voluntary genuflection is embarrassing. Tony didn't ask you to defend the family honour, aunty. Please get up off your knees.

[Damilola ÌRÀWÒ ✨ @dharmmy_]

That girl and her parents should cover their faces in shame. See what they trained and see what she trained herself into!

[Roulette @uranoutofluck]

Says the generation of males who join rape chats to share tips

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

NIGERIAN RESPECT CULTURE

“Good morning, Your Excellency Sir.”

Your Excellency: stealing the country

Nigeria: “At least his parents trained him well.”

[Tofu Tomato 🍅 @oluwatofunmii_]

‘This is Africa. We have our own values.’

Baby, where? Show me the values. Where is it?

[‏ً @itsnwts]

Men. They used it to control women

[🦢 @Fairyuxfhe]

If women were naturally submissive, there wouldn’t be a million incel podcasters crying about women not submitting.

[Samuel G @samuelgmusic]

@Big_Mck We act like we are the most respectful people on earth, yet we are the ones with the worst social policies, child labor, barbaric street killings, lynching of petty thieves, highest corruption and poverty. So which part of that performative respect has helped us?

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

@comfortomovre

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

This is why I don't listen to these women. Because what exactly has this obsession with performative “respect” done for Nigeria? We can Sir and Ma our way through corruption, abuse of power and complete disregard for other people's rights, then congratulate ourselves on having culture because somebody remembered not to call an older adult by their first name. Nonsense and ingredients

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

We will call a thief “Honourable”, a corrupt politician “Your Excellency”, an abusive pastor “Daddy” and an incompetent boss “Sir”, then summon the entire ancestors because somebody called an older man by his first name.

Nigeria has no shortage of titles. How has all this genuflecting improved the country?

We have made deference to power a sign of good upbringing, even when the person receiving it has done nothing worthy of respect. You people are mad

[Mz Andry @Mz__Andry]

Exactly. In Nigeria, “respect” can become a very efficient system for identifying who has power over you.

They will call a rich man “Sir” because even when hes younger, then shout “oga shift!” at a gateman old enough to be their father. You will nearly prostrate for Chairman, then treat the waiter serving Chairman like he is beneath basic courtesy.

But somehow the person who said “Tony” is the one without home training.

We need to be serious.