A lot of comedy skits we consume online are basically objectifying women

A lot of the comedy skits we consume online are basically objectifying women. You can go through most of the online comedians you know and see for yourselves. If it is not about big buttocks or breasts, it will be about who will follow a man to the bedroom due to the type of car he has.

It used to be music videos that were leading in this regard, but comedy skits have taken it to another level because of how handy and how easy people share them on social media.

Through jokes, while we laugh, messages are passed. And since we regard them as comedies, even kids are not restricted to watch. Today, the desire to do surgery and make the h!ps or breasts bigger is now fashionable. It is now common to hear people discussing, “When will you do your Nyansh” or “Which doctor did your nyansh?”

Teenagers in secondary schools are now standing before the mirror at any given time to see if their buttocks have increased. Almost every comedy skit about buttocks and breasts has millions of views.

As a priest, I may have my reservations from a moral point of view, but even if you are not looking at it from the moral perspective, you should at least be concerned that women are now priced based on the sizes of their buttocks and breasts. That is objectification and a lot of it are coming from comedy skits.

 

Fr. Kelvin Ugwu
Fr. Kelvin Ugwu
Fr Kelvin Ugwu MSP is an influential Nigerian Catholic priest on a mission in The Gambia.

Popular Related

Reno Omokri, The Manipulative Emotional Blackmailer

Who first shared Peter Obi's picture printed on a Muslim mat and made it go viral? Reno Who used the mat and picture and tried...

It sounds absurd when people say Peter Obi is only popular on Social Media

When people like Reno say Peter Obi was inconsequential to PDP I wonder how they do their calculations. During the 2019 elections when Peter Obi...

Why the World keeps developing

When something has lasted for a very long time it becomes extremely difficult to get people to see that it can be changed for...

Different Shades of Grace

Grace is a word we use to describe God's free gifts. It comes in different shades: 1. Talent: Talent can't be learned, it can be...

Ewu Gambia

“Fr, have you seen Ewu Gambia (Gambian Goat)?” That is the question I have been receiving again and again. Well, the answer is yes, I have...

On The Issue: “The Spiritual Controls the Physical”

On a more serious note, for the sake of knowledge, let us interrogate this claim: "The spiritual controls the physical" (If you don't like reading long...

Did Mary have other children apart from Jesus?

Inbox question: “Mary had other children after Christ. In Mark 6:3 it was explicitly written, ‘Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and...

Kneeling or bowing before images

In the first part of the post, we dealt with images and gave the right interpretation of Exodus 20:4. The post generated so many...

FULL TEXT: Soludo’s statement on Peter Obi

History Beckons and I will not be Silent (Part 1) Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social...

What Have they done to our Baba?

Something has clearly gone wrong. Is it a spell, is it disinformation or is it delusion? How our revered and much-loved Baba Olusegun Obasanjo can speak...