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The high price of skirt-chasing

Listening to two guys discuss their social issues left me quite a happy woman. They were complaining about the misery and financial hardships girlfriends exert. “You cannot call a girlfriend and ask her how she is,” went on one. “She will tell you she is not fine because she lacks airtime for her phone. And when you buy her the talk time, she will not even bother to call you. Before long, she will be asking for more, leaving you wondering who she called with the one you topped up just two days ago.” The other chirped in that he was surprised the other day when his girlfriend called him to buy relish, yet she lives with her parents, both of whom work. What, why me? He asked his friend. “Am I meant to be friends with the whole family and also feed it? Why, there was a time someone I had just met asked me to pay school fees for her nephew. Imagine? A nephew. Huh! He proceeded. Nephew? Am I the uncle? Why should a mere acquaintance push me to such huge responsibilities?” he demanded.

Well, I enjoyed every bit of the conversation. It served both married men right for chasing other women when their wives wallowed in loneliness and self-pity at home, maybe even on the verge of starvation as the provider was busy providing elsewhere. In their promiscuous minds, did they really believe a woman would love a married man pro bono? No! They want their earnings and will get them because the men too want something they are not getting from their wives. It is as simple an exchange programme as it looks. Surely, these women did not pick cell phone numbers or names haphazardly, but it was by arrangement and provocation. You approach one; you are simply getting a license to be robbed because the men too are robbing these women.

Cheating is done willy nilly and as the name suggests, parties involved are lying or fooling each other. They come in the name of love when in reality, it is an absorption of lies. Women will create situations for pity to implore the married men— they clearly know are taken and will never love them— to cater for their financial needs. If men are not willing to spend, flee from these women, but if you feel your financial muscle can stretch across households, indulge. Just don’t complain. You are on a mission to upgrade statistics of how many dolls you bed, the dolls too are on a mission to amass material and trust me; the competition gauge is fast rising. They will compare who is doing what and the winner takes all.

These women are not thieves, but are simply playing the games men play. I enjoyed this because it seems if there should be a way to stop cheating, the materialistic means could prove right. After all, everything has a price, including idiocy. Let me spell it out to all of you looking for beautiful company or pleasure. You are earmarked to bankroll that Brazilian hair, rentals, wardrobe and its accessories, designer perfumes, groceries, school fees and anything you can think of. So, don’t be alarmed when you are billed after services have been rendered. Such are their demands when you succumb to the wide smiles or physical beauties. Trust me; they will live large on your heads and for the simple reason that you asked them out.

The gender equality argument will not stand in this regard, so forget it. It is never applicable.

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