By Paul Onomuakpokpo
Through their numerous
feats in different spheres of human endeavour, many a woman has vitiated the
wrongheaded diatribe of the iconoclastic German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
that “when a woman has scholarly inclinations there is something wrong with her
sexuality.”
Clearly, women could
justifiably declaim against Nietzsche’s notion of woman as God’s second
mistake. But it is not unlikely that Nietzsche’s opinion would have enjoyed a
fair measure of validity if he had had the Nigerian woman in mind and declared
that she suffers an unhinged sexuality as long as she has political
inclinations. Nietzsche’s postulation could even be much more valid in a place
like Saudi Arabia
where women only secured the right to vote in just about three years ago.
