Potato Potatoes (a misuse of words)

 Hey lovelies, let’s address something that people now call potato potatoes but is not shall we? 

There's a new wave of the use of certain words in the past few years, words with very strong, deep, and heavy meanings if you don't mind my repetition of adjectives, but it is to stress the point that words like misogyny, chauvinism, male-identified and sexist aren't words to be used loosely, especially not because someone rubs you off the wrong way. I find that the influx of these words into our vocabulary, unfortunately, did not come with the meanings of the words because why is Amara calling Yinka a misogynistic because he has a preferred choice of appearance for his wife, her neighbor, who in fact doesn't mind?  Why is Tinuade calling Obialor chauvinistic because he has strong opinions she doesn't agree with? And why on earth is Dennis sexist because he believes that the right order of things is that humans should be heterosexual?

I know that this Gen-Z era came with a surge of outspokenness and undowsed courage, beautiful, but, it has come with an underhand of arrogance, entitlement, and lack of consideration. This era that brought in a feminism that shuns the fight for the women’s rights, and neglects the very essence of the word that it uses to promote its agenda but instead promotes misandry.  Can we step back from using high-sounding words if we do not know their meaning?  Can we have healthy disagreements? You know the ones where both parties walk away better for it because new knowledge was received. Can we respect people’s perspectives even if we don't particularly agree with them? 

Can we decide not to force our biases onto people and call it the norm? No, we will not call men chauvinistic because they refuse our ideology. We will not call misogynistic for not accepting our outright manipulations.  We will not call ladies who stand with men male-identified because they do not pander to the need to use, abuse or be downright inconsiderate to men. I write because I know good men, great men, even. I write because I have come in contact with men who have changed the trajectory of my life for the better; men like RNI, MXI, BAM, my father, Professors Robert and Igwe. This is not a potato, potatoes case. Let us be accountable for our words.