Dear Airtel,
Since there's shortage of people that sell akara on Saturday morning, why don't you look into that business and leave this telecom business?
Best disregard,
An unsatisfied customer.
No amount of outrage or trauma will ever justify anyone making a stupidly provocative statement like “all men are rapists until proven otherwise”.
Don't you people even think? It's obvious many of you suspend your brain cells when tweeting hateful generalizations or supporting harmful and myopic gender stereotypes. Many of you don't realize the implications of your tweets. You don't realize how indicting your tweets can be even against you.
That many men have been found guilty of sexual harassment and rape is never a logical basis to indict all men as rapists in a country of millions of men and in a world where billions of men exist. If you are a man and you insist to see all men as rapists until proven otherwise, you shouldn't be riled up if anyone decides to apply your silly logic to you and accuse you of rape, since you've not proven yourself otherwise to that person.
If you're a woman and you insist on seeing all men as rapists until proven otherwise, all the good men in your life should mark and avoid you because you're clearly a miserable person who needs healing.
And to those of you who don't see the problem with the above statement, would you gladly also support statements like “all women are whores until proven otherwise” or “all pastors are frauds until proven otherwise”? There are many “pastors” who are frauds and there are many women who are whores but it would be stupid to cast an aspersion on an entire set of people because of the actions of some people in that set.
Everytime there is a dastardly incident of rape and sexual abuse, we beg you people to stop harmful rhetoric and dangerous narratives against men and focus on fighting against these animals and helping the victims. We tell you how these gender wars muddle the conversation to an impossible end but you don't listen. You don't listen because a lot of you are apparently more interested in useless pandering and silly gender wars. While we are busy arguing on twitter, there are real victims in need of real help out there.
So grow up and think! Think!