AD HOMINEN: THE LABYRINTH OF AMERICAN POLITICS AND NIGERIAN FEMINISTS.

It was late summer holiday evening in Baltimore while taking a walk along the Patapsco after a visit to some of the city public monuments. I sat down with a family friend of mine for a sumptuous meal of Brazilian gaucho-style Rodizio with delicious fruit juice while ruminating or should I say discussing American politics in respect of Trump and Clinton dichotomization coupled with the irrationality that has taken over political discourse in America.

My friend alerted me to the feminists propaganda festering around and in support of Hilary Rodham Clinton that he thought would make middle class working white male and conservative religious white female turn against her with their votes going to Donald Trump and the whole story is now history. Donald Trump is the president elect of the United States of America.

What is interesting here is the fact that some pseudo feminists in Nigeria have usurped the irrationality that has taken over political discourse in America and have created what I call Feminists Hangouts dotted around the country to project the failure of Hilary Rodham Clinton as epitomizing the fight of a girl child to break the so called glass ceiling forgetting that this election is about breaking the stranglehold of corrupt American establishment and pseudo liberals speaking from both sides of their Creutzfeld Jakob infested mouth.

Americans are tired of babysitting government and I want to say here that such political tsunami or earthquake is likely to occur in Europe if European political leaders do not retrace their missteps and do the right things. Brexit is here instructive and if we do not want Euroexit take heed now to avoid political harakiri.

Nigerian feminists have gone on social media, print and electronic radio/television to character assassinate Donald Trump by deliberate misrepresention of the core issue at hand, I wonder whether character murder ad hominen is a good logical argument to win a discourse so significant as gender equity. The answer in my view is No.

This American election wherein Donald Trump was elected president in my opinion is not about gender because the opponent Hilary Rodham Clinton is not disadvantage in anyway going forward. She is privileged and furthermore she spent more money influencing electorates than Donald Trump not forgetting the role played by the incumbent president Barack Obama and the establishment Apparatchik.

Therefore, to resort to argumentum ad misericordiam that because she is a woman she lost and the glass ceiling cock and bull story is to present barefaced lies to the world and those peddling such argument are not doing justice to the achievement of Hilary Rodham Clinton because I do not believe she will recognise herself in that pity narrative and if she did then she is sending a very wrong and dangerous message to all young girls worldwide because she is in denial.

Another fallacious reasoning observable amongst Nigerian feminists is the illogicality of the narrative that says to teenage girls that ''if they go to school, get good grades, work hard, really hard, they’ll achieve anything they put their minds to?"-OSASU IGBINEDION. I agree with Osasu that this notion is problematic. However, you do not necessarily achieve everything you put your mind to because the reality of life is different and achieving anything to me means nothing to achieve because you are still in a state of flux. This kind of reasoning is potentially dangerous for young girls because most of the time premises are based on anecdotes and overgeneralization.

In conclusion, I want to urge Nigerian feminists to stop false cause fallacy and take a good look at the whole picture to avoid dumping young impressionable Nigerian girls into abyss of tantalization.

OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE is a philosopher

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