Patriarchy existed to STOP OTHER MEN.
You really think men invented patriarchy to hold YOU down? You are too weak, too fragile, too irrelevant for men to waste invention on you.
Men invented patriarchy to protect their lands, food, money, resources, women and children FROM MEN.
500 years ago women didn't know what patriarchy was because it was SURVIVAL.
No police. No 911. No guns. No cell phones. If a rival tribe wanted you, they killed your men, raped you, took your land, took your food, and married you off to their sons or kept you as maids, servants, and sex slaves. That was history.
Patriarchy said: TOUCH HER AND YOU DIE. She belongs to this man, this family, this tribe. That was not oppression. That was a DEATH THREAT to other men to keep you safe.
Pregnancy = 9 months useless. Breastfeeding mother can't run, can't fight, baby cries and brings wolves.
Who hunted? MEN.
Who fought bears? MEN.
Who fought other men? MEN.
Who built houses in snow? MEN.
Who died in wars? 90% MEN.
If men left women alone to be "independent" in 1500, you would have gone EXTINCT in one winter. No food. No fire. No protection.
You are alive today because of patriarchy.
Modern luxury - AC, Uber Eats, iPhone, birth control, police made yall RETARDED and ungrateful. You think world was always safe.
You think animals don't hunt humans for food?
Who stopped all these? Patriarchy. Men who built walls, laws, armies, civilization so you can sit on TikTok with fake eyelashes and say "patriachy oppress me."
You are not oppressed. You are PROTECTED and too dumb to know it.
Without patriarchy, you wouldn't be CEOs. You'd be extinct or a sex slave to the strongest man in your own village that’s been conquered by the enemy.
Patriarchy is not why you are suffering. Patriarchy is why you are ALIVE to complain.
They women have SHORT-TERM MEMORY for the GOOD you did and 4K ULTRA-HD MEMORY for the BAD.
You sold your car to pay her tuition? FORGOTTEN.
You housed her mother, supported her siblings, paid her bills, and sacrificed your dreams for hers?
“That’s what a man is supposed to do.”
But that ONE GIRL whose picture you liked in 1965? She still has the screenshot.
That ONE argument where you raised your voice? She remembers the date, time, and exact words.
99 GOOD DEEDS = NOTHING.
1 BAD MOMENT = YOUR ENTIRE CHARACTER.
You spent FIVE YEARS building her life, but another man gives her butterflies for FIVE MINUTES, and suddenly you’re the problem.
You built her a HOUSE. He gives her ATTENTION. Somehow, you’re the one who isn’t doing enough.
And when she leaves?
“I haven’t been happy for a long time.”
Your sacrifices become OBLIGATIONS. Your mistakes become UNFORGIVABLE OFFENSES.
Your GOOD is expected. Your BAD is documented. Your SACRIFICES are forgotten. Your MISTAKES are preserved.
Men, stop thinking giving a woman EVERYTHING guarantees she’ll appreciate ANYTHING.
NEVER CONFUSE BEING NEEDED WITH BEING VALUED.
Credit to the voices who stayed level-headed, shared real data, and kept the discussion useful amid the noise. As for the rest, maybe sit this one out until you've done your homework. 😂
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I come in peace ✌️🥱
A lot has been happening on X over the last 72 hours. The "pregnancy is a death sentence" topic will go down as one of the most talked about on Nigerian Twitter. It went well beyond ordinary discussion, and Naija Med3 showed up in full force. 😂
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There's been a lot of back and forth and plenty of weak takes. TBH, this whole saga has shown some people's true colours and their level of intelligence. Some are at the ground floor of intellectual thought, and the award goes to Dr. Mary for dropping weakest take of all😂 2/3
11 Successful surgeries on women who are all happy mothers and saving 4 more vaginal deliveries from serious complications.
15 happy babies, 15 happy mothers, by my own hands. All in October. ❤️
The same men who say
"this jollof is killing me",
"my boss wants to kill me with work"
and
"Arsenal will be the death of me"
have suddenly discovered the dictionary because a woman described pregnancy as a death sentence.
You understand figures of speech perfectly. You just don't like it when a woman uses one to describe something that actually kills her.
Nigeria accounts for more than a quarter of all maternal deaths in the world.
So no, it's not "definitely die". But it's a gamble with her life every single time, and she's the one taking the risk while you argue about vocabulary.
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