THE INFLUENCE OF GENDER ON MY PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD.

No two individuals are exactly the same.Even among persons born of the same parents,differences in height,intelligence,complexion and temperament exist.These differences exist because each person's background and experiences are peculiar to such person.There is no gainsaying the fact that the perception of the world by all individuals are to some extent, be influenced by gender. I am not an exception.Being a man has influenced the way I look at several issues.There are many aspects of my life and beliefs that reveal this.I will illustrate with only two of them.

Firstly, I am not a feminist and I detest feminism.Like Chinweizu and many other notable writers around the world, I am a 'masculinist'. Men are endangered species.Almost all the laws of all countries are skewed against them.Most of the time men end up in jail for many offences women get away with.Sometimes when a fight breaks out between a man and a woman, the law enforcement agents are more eager to save the woman than the man. The man is always considers the assailant if when he may have been on the receiving end.The statistics of the gender of all persons in jail all over the world would prove this fact.Sometimes, such men were sent to jail to please one woman or the other.

In many homes, the man makes all the money but the woman is the person in charge.The man can only offend her at his own risk.In Africa,boys are deliberately denied tutelege in cooking in order to subjugate them to their future wives whose mothers had already started teaching the tricks of controlling a man at an early age.This is because the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Not being adept at cooking therefore places the man in perpetual bondage to the woman.

All these frustrations sometimes end up sending the man to an early grave.When this happens, the woman and the children settle down to enjoy the man's wealth after a brief period of 'mourning'. The statistics of widows and widowers would reveal that there are three times more widows than there are widowers. Many of the men went to their graves early.Of course,women have peculiar ways of making the children love them at the expense of the man.Available statistics show that most children buy four times more gifts for their mothers than their fathers.I feel disheartened when feminists argue that women are oppressed and treated with disdain.It is in fact, the other way round.Men are the weaker sex that need to be protected.

Secondly,I believe that women are more emotional and irrational while taking sensitive decisions.Sometimes,decisions taken at the heat of emotional turbulence tumble like a pack of cards at critical times.On the other hand,men are critical, thorough and deft.

I must acknowledge that there are exceptions to this rule. Some women are wonderful while some men are disappointing.However,the percentage of persons that fall into the exceptional group is very negligible.

A lot of men deny reality by pretending their decisions are not influenced by gender.But such men are living a lie.No man or woman can exist outside the influence of gender.