jimmy johnmark

Easy going guy who gives you a long rope to hang yourself. Veterinarian and One Health Professional.

[jimmy johnmark @jiimmyj]

The goal is to BE and not to SEEM to be.

[🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 @LionelMedia]

Can we please have this woman run for anything so that we can elect her and ultimately make her POTUS?

[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

Feminism as Hatred of Men

If you look at feminism through the prism of one angry woman, who is probably just transferring the aggression of bitter encounters with the men in her world, you are going to grow resentful of the ideology. Even Chimamanda Adichie, who published a booklet titled We Should All Be Feminists, in which she argued for a world where women are afforded equal dignity and opportunity, and where both boys and girls are freed from restrictive gender expectations, has had to clarify her understanding of feminism. In a well-publicised panel discussion, she said, “I often say to young Nigerian feminists, please do not use feminism to justify your wickedness.” She observed that some of these young women were confusing feminism with nastiness.

A lot of us began as self-admitted feminists but had to take a step back when the movement became perverted in some quarters and turned into an avenue for demonising men without exception. Only a foolish man would support a movement that treats all men as complicit in the oppression of women and promotes hatred of men as some form of enlightenment. The paradox is that you cannot dismantle the patriarchal values and institutions that oppress women without forming alliances with men, because an eye-for-an-eye war between men and women is ultimately an asymmetrical one and, more importantly, a self-defeating one.

In the North, we have had generations of women’s rights advocates such as Hajiya Saudatu Mahdi, who pushed for reforms with grace, wisdom and persistence. None of these podcasting characters can match what such women have achieved in securing the representation of women at the table of opportunities. Their work has helped make it possible that, if you walk into classrooms across the North today, you may be surprised to find more women than men in some of them. They achieved this without any delusional warfare aimed at erasing the man or treating him as the natural enemy of the woman.

To reduce feminism to a debate about who gets to cook at home, when domestic arrangements have historically emerged from economic divisions of labour, family structures, culture and circumstance, is a farce long overdue for retirement. What a woman needs is her dignity and the right to live and make choices that suit her. While those choices include the choice not to cook, they also include the choice of the woman who cooks because her husband provides everything for her, the choice of the woman who prefers to stay at home, and the choice of the woman who wears a hijab. If feminism is truly about agency, then it cannot recognise a woman’s freedom only when she makes choices that conform to somebody else’s idea of liberation.

There is no world in which an advocacy built on promoting hatred of men without any exception is a mark of wisdom, but that is tragically the oil that drives much of the nastiness that qualifies as feminism these days.

[jimmy johnmark @jiimmyj]

@WonderDtalk_ This skit cracked me up real good ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[DEMO OF LONDON @Ademola_Odumesi]

Gbaa s'ibeeee
😂 😂 😂

[Manly Mentor @manly_mentor]

Top 3 reasons people secretly hate you (and you need to hear this)...💯

[Dr Penking™ @drpenking]

African leaders the moment they taste power

[Coco Gauff @CocoGauff]

wow.
this means so much to me truly….french open champion🥹
i worked so hard for this moment and for it to have happened is insane. thank you God ❤️ and thank you everyone. this means the world…. I ‘m still in shock honestly can’t find the words but all I can say for now is just thank you and never give up on your dreams🫶🏾

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

i've never met someone who obsessively takes notes achieve anything great

[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

The Road to Uromi

When we push back against the stereotypes and profiling of the North—especially narratives that strip its people of their humanity or, as one mob agitator once put it, frame their culture as something that must “completely die off and be replaced with something fit for human civilisation”—we do so to prevent precisely the kind of horror that transpired in Edo State.

There is no barbarism worse than the extrajudicial killing of a fellow human being, whether in Sokoto or Udune Efandion, Uromi, Edo State. Words are not mere expressions of sentiment; they carry the weight of influence, and when delivered with hate, they become weapons. This was how those innocent northerners, merely traversing their own country to earn a dignified living instead of settling for a life of crime, were cast as preys for slaughter.

The massacre of these 16 northerners isn’t an isolated case. In May 2022, a pregnant woman, Harira Jibril, and her children were killed at Isulo, Anambra State, along with six others identified as northern Nigerians. They were not in the process of committing a crime; they were travelling through a part of the country that saw them as people from a culture that deserved to die off. Yet northerners, despite all the violence attributed to the region, have been incredible hosts to southerners, embracing them in their villages and cities.

The reality is that northerners have been unfairly vilified in Nigeria, made to bear collective guilt for the actions of a few bad actors. Even international observers have bought into this misleading agenda, with some amplifying the ridiculous claim that Boko Haram targets only Christians, despite data showing that Muslims have been the group’s worst victims. This misrepresentation is also due, in part, to the fact that northerners are underrepresented in media ownership and lack the platforms to set the record straight.

During the Buhari government, my friend @Abdulrahmanleme was the leading voice in calling out the media for failing to pay attention to the danger of pathologising the Fulani, who were stripped of their humanity and thrown under the bus. They were hated by an entire nation for the crimes of criminals from their ethnic group, as though the entire Fulani community had convened to mastermind a crime against a people or the nation. This was made even worse by President Buhari’s Fulani affiliation.

This prejudice didn’t emerge from a vacuum. What is frightening is that the masterminds in the South are characters who pride themselves on being the most civilised. They measure civilisational superiority not by moral character but by academic credentials. Yet true civilisation is not defined by literacy alone but by a society’s commitment to justice and equality. A sane society is one where no one is deemed inferior and no community is punished for the crimes of individuals who happen to share their ethnicity, religion, or region.

What happened in Edo was not justice, nor was it a response to any crime. It was pure, unfiltered hatred. And a section of the media, through its reckless framing and dehumanisation of northerners over the past decades, fuelled this dangerous climate. They turned fellow citizens into targets for violence and enabled tragedies like this to unfold.

#JusticeforUromi16

[jimmy johnmark @jiimmyj]

@DrJoeAbah Happy birthday Dr. Joe Abah. You have been an inspiration to me and many others. I pray for good health, long life and the strength to continue positively impacting our world. Cheers to many more wonderful years ahead.

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

Pastor Femi shatters a major table

[De Christian Life @DeChristianLife]

Why men avoid "independent" women?

[jimmy johnmark @jiimmyj]

@NafisatRamses For those that were properly trained to love, it is very difficult for the internet to completely corrupt them. Not impossible but difficult.
They are like a ship anchored at the harbor. You can drift a bit but you can’t go far.

[Emir Sirdam @EmirSirdam]

This should be the official skit of the #EndBadGovernaceInNigeria Protest. 😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[jimmy johnmark @jiimmyj]

@w_bitterman @IIIDeaton Amen. May God light the fire in our hearts to serve him.

[jimmy johnmark @jiimmyj]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[jimmy johnmark @jiimmyj]

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[jimmy johnmark @jiimmyj]

@dorcasduniya1 @HoldingcoreNgoF Go for it! You sure are an awesome photography studio and this can be a great boost.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

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