As Owo person I find it irritating
when the female genders from my town are being judged by
misconceptions people have about
females from my home town.
This is mostly untrue and a biased opinion being passed down from one generation to another.
I do hear some Owo parents advising their male children not to marry from Owo. You are from Owo and you are running the females of your home town down, if you were being runned down I believe your husband will not married you .
We as a new generation must move
past it, and fully accept our flaws
and imperfections on an individual
basis and not being judgemental . If a lady or woman misbehave in her husband house we should treat it has an individual character not to generalized it. Not to judge all females that they are the same .
Every body as an element
of good and bad. I am not here to defend the so called characteristics of a individual, but here to tell you the actions of one or two persons
does not mean they all behave the
same way, we must learn to give
people a chance based on their
person and not based on where they were born, they never choose to be born in a particular town, so they should not be judged by it then.
Here are some of Misconceptions
about Owo ladies/ Women/ girls
*Owo Women are promiscuous*
This is blatant lie.This assertion stem from the fact that some Owo women will have children out of wedlock while in their
parents’ house, and follow different
men while nursing or taking care of
their child. I will not deny that this
does not happen, it does, but it is
never condoned in Owo town, as a normal behavior. Some of this women do that out of frustration and in order to find means for their survival remember they are not in their husbands house.
A lot of Owo women are virtuous
women, who remain faithful to their
husband, even after the death of
their husband, they are still faithful.
*Owo Women are dirty*
Personal hygiene is on
an individual basis, and her
background, the personal hygiene of some people should not affect all. Meeting an average Owo women will make you drop this misconception fast.
*Owo Women are lazy and depend
on their husbands*
I have met with many Owo Women who are hardworking and
dislike the idea of demanding
everything from their husbands check these wonderful Owo Women out in the market places across the country, in their offices and shops they are passionate about their jobs and business they support their husbands to harness the future of their families.
*Owo Women are too fetish*
This believe are pointed to all yorùbá women in general. I may be tempted to agree with you,
because of what we Yoruba people
portray of ourselves in our local
movies. To be more factual before
the advent of Christianity, Yoruba
tribe worshiped deities, but guess
what almost all tribe in Nigeria also
did before the introduction of
religion, but now we know the light
not all Yoruba people are fetish.
*Bride Price in Owo is the
Cheapest*
I am sure a lot of people will not
agree with me, but I will prove my
point, if you approach an Owo
family to marry their daughter, you
are given a list based on the
preference of the family, it may be
high or low, then you can negotiate
on what you can afford to do, it can
cost you 100,000 to over a million,
depending on the family, now that
does not translate to being cheap.
And when you are marrying an Owo person, it is believed that a
marriage is between families, and all members of the family chip in
something to contribute to the
success of the marriage and not
heap all the load on the man marrying.
If you quantify all the amount spend
by both sides on the wedding, you
will agree with me is among the
costliest wedding in Nigeria.
*Owo Women do not stay in their huband's house*
This is not true, Owo Women are iron ladies who stay with their husbands and support him to future of the families. They help their husbands to picture the future so that they can be in the future. However some Women left their husbands house due to domestic violence and some mother in-laws victimization.
*Owo Women/ girls/ ladies are commercial sex workers*
This is also another Misconceptions about Owo females. I did a visibility studies myself and I discovered that those ladies parading themselves at the express of Ikare junction, hotels and beer parlors are not an indigen of Owo. Some of them come from other states and towns while some of them were born and grow up here in Owo that is why you can hear them speaking Owo language fluently. An average Owo Women are cultured and not engaged in any act of prostitution.
*Owo ladies prefer dating Okada riders because of daily money given to them*
I will advise you to have a close interaction with these ladies . Owo Women do not date or marry because of money you will be giving to them everyday. They marry based on emotional gratifications
So there you have it, I am not here
to defend Owo people, because am from the town
it does not need defending, I feel our females should not be judged on this misconceptions.
Please help Owo females to share this post to all social media so that people will know that Owo females are cultured.
ÀLÙYỌ ni ooo
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