If Tuface
was lady: Agony of a female entertainer
By CHINEDU HARDY NWADIKE
I have never
seen me fighting for ladies in this way, but an article I was writing motivated
this title and I had to give it heart and time to see that the world reads this
truth no one has ever bothered to tell.
My apologies
to the legend himself, Tuface Idibia for being on the title, but you are just
the opposite of a perfect example for what the entire article will revolve around,
because if a lady had been wielding your name with every achievements you have,
I believe she would still be single and probably searching for a worthy
candidate to warm her bed with the title of about seventh husband.
I once thought
ladies in entertainment industry were unserious until I analyzed certain
conditions they are usually faced with. A female entertainer should need about
thrice the courage her male counterpart would summon before taking a step into
the industry, because of the usual societal attachments to being a female
entertainer.
One sweet
dream of every African woman is to get married in a home that will stand the
taste of time; have beautiful kids that will make her proud whenever she stands
with other women. A friend of mine once argued that evens nuns often dream of
this.
To make his
case stronger, he said that the wedding day of a woman, is often one of the
days she will never forget in her entire life. No matter how old they are, they
can tell the story of how their husband proposed as well as how every
arrangement was made until it ended at the wedding day. No one wonder when you
fail to attend the wedding of a lady, you become her enemy forever or many
years.
The society
believes that female entertainers live wayward lives and I believe this
comparism has been drawn from their male counterparts who are often celebrated
for their waywardness.
A blog post
read ‘Wizkid grabs the breast of a female fan’, ‘Timaya and girlfriend
expecting baby boy’ or ‘Paul of Psquare
proposes to girlfriend’ we read them and see that in most cases, the number of
negative comments we see are very few, unlike when the camera picked Tiwa
Savage from under, Nigerians nailed her.
Who nailed
PSquare when one of them poured juice into his trouser while on stage, we
tagged it sexy act. Funny country in a funny continent.
It will be
very unfair to put the ratio of male artistes to their female counterparts to
about 10:1, because the margin is bigger than that and daily we watch it
increase because the ladies have not received the respect they ought to get
from us.
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