Sunday, April 08, 2007

Why the short and ugly are married

I cannot but share this pure truth with everybody. I totally agree with him. I wish our young damsels and Jaguar Nanas who have the whole world in their hands will take heed and make use of this wise advise.

Why the short and ugly are married
by Dele Oluwole

Culled from Nigeria Village Square

This may be thinking aloud, I can not stop trying to reason why the Nigerian ‘Bobo’ end up settling for a girl he ordinarily would not go near at his ‘hay’ days when he was a risk taker, but now want to spend the rest of his life with seeing he has now become a risk averter.

When I look around I see nothing but guys who have settled for girls that they have better looks than, especially my ‘loaded’ friends. Each time I was going to be introduced to my friends’ spouses for the first time I was expecting to meet women of sophistication, elegance, and beauty, but instead at the end of the day the best among them was just okay. Whereas, these are guys that when they were in their ‘hay’ days, what I would call their ‘Shongo ode’ I mean when they painted Akoka and Yabatech red will not even dare to talk to such girls.
The decision to choose a life partner is not for the public to debate on which is why I couldn’t summon courage to ask my friends …… ‘but Bros this is the worst of all the girls I have seen you with’. I remember an experience some seven years ago when some of my friends and I told one of us a Banker that his girl friend then who is now his wife was ugly. He didn’t flair up at us because we were very good friends that can say anything to one another, but calmly he said ‘Dele she’s my choice’, the countenance on his face was that of please stop right there and don’t take this any further. Trust me, I persisted and he simply told me and boasting that in ten years time we should come back to re-evaluate our careers, marriage, and life in general to know who is happiest amongst us all, he further said ‘look I am marrying her for her inner beauty, the happiness and joy she will bring to my life will reflect in my career ……. You wait and see’.
My friend today is not just happily married with two sons but doling well in his career as he is presently a Branch manager of one of the top Banks in Nigeria. His wife has a farm that is doing well too.
Most Nigerian young men are looking beyond the ordinary; they grow to mature with time, to know that not all that glitter is gold. Between the ages of 20 and 28 they are risk takers that will go after the Ginevieves, Daregos, Omotolas, Tokunbos and Biancas. The risk taking is worth it after all as the tall and beautiful girls put them through experiences that become invaluable to them later in life.
I have a six footer friend; we went through the NYSC together somewhere in Northern Nigeria. He did not just paint the ‘Sharia’ city red but was going out with the most beautiful Fulani girl in the petroleum Depot where we served. Every skirt chaser in the depot had his eyes on her; even the depot chief made advances through unsolicited petrol drums and cash yet the girl wanted the young, penniless, and hungry Coper. I remember an instance where one of the lady’s numerous admirers or chasers offered to give her a lift to work, the lady did not just accept the lift but requested that her Coper boy friend come on board. Guess what? They both sat at the back while they were chauffeur driven by the ‘toaster’.
The interesting part of this story is that my then Coper friend despite working in an oil company with plenty ‘ego’ eventually got married to a girl the entire family denounced because of her looks but they are happily married with a kid anyway .

These tall and beautiful girls can not cook because they spent more time before their mirrors than in their mother’s kitchen. Don’t joke with Nigerian man and food. They can not stand hard times because they never had such experience. How can they stand hard times when they are chauffeur driven to school in their fathers’ car, when paid washmen and cooks are at their beck and call?
The Nigerian man aside listening to his Mother’s golden advice when its time to choose a life partner wants a happy home, wants to be in control, wants to be respected, and wants a woman that the entire members of the extended family can relate with. He doesn’t want the woman that will use his monthly package to shop for the likes of lipsticks, G strings, and high heel shoes. He of course doesn’t want to come back home to prepare his own supper. He wants a woman that will instil some level of moral values in his children, how can a woman who has never ironed her father’s shirt or help her Mum in the kitchen instil moral values or bring up her children properly or even iron her husband shirt?
If you meet a depressed man find out if he’s happily married, a depressed man’s productivity at work will be so low that it may reduce the company’s turnover and eventually affect the country’s GDP.
The short and ugly is never a risk taker, she will never gamble with her chances of getting hooked to Mr right as she does not get carried away with the euphoria of beauty like her tall counterpart ‘dongo si lewo or Omo ga’. Any attempt to carry herself unnecessarily too high means she is in her own world. As a teenager she already had her cross staring her in the eyes and carried it with all pleasure. She works hard to become an achiever, little wonder she passes the O’ level and JAMB at a sitting as those dangerous boys neither distract nor have interest in her. She will do well in the University and come out with first class or 2:1 because the campus landlords i.e. the cultists don’t take her precious studying time as they will not want to be associated with her type anyway. She will get the best of jobs because she worked hard to earn her degree grade as she neither bribed her way through nor offered herself on ‘a platter of gold’ to the hyena lecturers. The society sees her as being responsible because she doesn’t wear the offensive tops, the nuclear mini skirts or the ‘help me remove’ tights that I call big baby ‘pampas’.
Finally, she will be attracted to the Nigerian man who has sampled an entire city of tall and beautiful girls because of her high moral values, sensibility, and intelligence. She will be happily married and raise God fearing children ….. and who knows if her husband’s gene is very strong she may end up having kids that will grow up to become tall and beautiful.
At the end of the day who looses? The tall and beautiful who may only get married at 37 or as second wife to the pot-belly Alhaji who junkets around the whole world leaving her at the mercy of her driver or Tailor (‘Obioma’) next door. She can only get married to the man of her dream if only she doesn’t allow her God given beauty to take greater part of her, but will she? As everyone tells her that she is the most beautiful girl in the world, and that she has the nicest legs, dreamy eyes and alabaster skin.
You can not eat your cake and have it. It is either you scarify beauty for good manners or level headedness for an Ahlaji. The choice is yours, but I am lucky to have beauty, level headedness, and brain in my wife.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

I totally get ur drift, quite interesting

Anonymous said...

I definitely agree bruv although there is an added complication sometimes, especially when the young and beautiful chicks has a some coins, they totally get it twisted. lil wonder. When they get enough attention, they get deluded and expect you to live on their terms aspecially born again chicks who have their own personal doctrine. Trust me beauty dont mean a thing when you aint happy or fulfilled. If she hot and not bovvered. I'll take half a cup of ugly, not a full one. ---

Nneka's World said...

I agree with him on some aspects, but to me he is generalizing. There are some out there who dont capitalize on thier looks. There are some that do, its the same for men as well

Keshi said...

now I know why Im not married :)

Keshi.

Ore said...

Such outrageous generalisations.

Anonymous said...

Touche Ore, you took the words right out of my mouth. Utter Rubbish.

Anonymous said...

the generalizations in the fact that only beautiful girls are rich with cooks and washermen...the generalization that ugly people do better in school..where are the statistics because i don't see any correlation between looks and all these things.

vindication through innocence said...

well i must go against the grain cos not only am i an academic, but im also tall and attractive- a sexy nerd to summate!imn your face whoever wrote this RUBBISH!I rebuke evrything you said about tall chicks with money that know how to maintain physically and academically!!Like ore said 'rubbish'!!

Book Junkie Reviews said...

Wow. All I can say is... ouch.

Ms. Catwalq said...

So at the end of the day, the man is the only one who eats his cake and has it. he beds the fine girls and then discards them for the ugly ones.
2. only ugly girls get married?
3. the fine girls cannot cook
I do not know which females you used as studies but I am yet to meet one that falls into either category. I can only say that the men that you have mentioned are all useless men. he wants a working class wife who is untouched, fertile and ready to wait on him hand and foot.
I especially find interesting the sentence when he says
"He of course doesn’t want to come back home to prepare his own supper.". I guess that negro is about to be starving cos working class wife comes home after him and goes straight to bed. I guess your next entry will be justification on why he is bedding the househelp

Enioluwaopalekun said...

Your blog is wonderful, I also appreciate the idea that you culled my article 'why the short and ugly are married’ from the village square. Part II and other articles are also viewable both on village square and on my blog http://enioluwaopalekunn.blogspot.com/
Thank you

Dele Oluwole

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