Why I stopped explaining myself to people on gender equity – Toke Makinwa

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Media Personality, Toke Makinwa, has voiced her opinion on how she feels about gender equity.

The budding actress, in an interview with GQ South Africa, said her new role in a movie titled Singing Sin is to sensitize women on how to handle pressure from gender wars.

Toke said both genders are different and nothing alike. She said she is not trying to take over from the gender, however, women are breaking doors for themselves.

She went further to say that she has worked so hard all by herself and should be celebrated as one, not that she should be compared to a man’s success.

She said, “A movement has started for women, but we are not where we should be. You find that people measure a woman’s strength by the amount of bullshit she’s willing to deal with.

“A line needs to be separated here: each gender is unique to its own self. Women are not trying to be men. Women aren’t trying to be compared to men. Women are delicate, yet strong.

“I stopped explaining myself a long time ago because I do not think that is the first thing you see when you see me. I am not fitting into the ideal of a man’s narrative. Men are men.

“I do not want to be a man. We are all human beings. I crave the opportunities that should be available to all human beings.

“I think that women need to stop trying to prove a point because there is no point to prove. We are women. We are unique. We are who we are.

“Women are forging their own futures by creating careers and building businesses. Nobody is out there wanting to compete or be compared to a man. I see a man, I acknowledge their strength and their journey.

“I would never be able to fully speak on what it means to be a man because I am not a man and I do not want to be one. I want to be beautifully carved, flawed and eccentric as a woman. I want to find my own path.

“I don’t need to impose myself as bossy because I have worked hard enough to stand in any room, as any other human being, and that’s what I choose to focus on.”

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