Jim Iyke, a seasoned Nollywood actor, has shared his thoughts on contemporary feminism, calling it a movement that has lost sight of its initial intent and has now verged on criminality.
In a recent interview in Nigeria, Iyke made the case that, although early feminist movements sought to solve pressing problems like gender inequality and oppression, the modern movement has turned into a perverted ideology that promotes needless rivalry between the sexes.
Iyke claims that in contrast to the first, long-gone institution, he views this one as criminal.
”I consider it a crime, a kind of assault. The perpetrators of this… clearly, I would not name the magazine… launched a clever campaign to push sales . Who were their chief readers? Women. So they devised an ideology that allowed women to challenge the status quo and compete with men in the same space,” Iyke said.
Jim Iyke went on to say that a women’s magazine deliberately promoted modern feminism as a sales gimmick, which ultimately evolved into a philosophy that exhorts women to completely abandon men.
“This was a campaign that went too far, and certain women fully embraced the ideology. They decided that this whole ideology of ‘we do not need a man, anything a man can do we can do better’… escalated, and blew it out of proportion. Now it has been adopted as a lifestyle, and a new cultural standard,” he said.
Jim Iyke denounced the movement’s “double standards,” claiming that it encourages a two-faced approach to gender dynamics, rather than striving for natural balance.
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The actor continued that, modern feminism has evolved into lifestyle and a norm, with some women pushing the ideology to an excessive degree.
“The double standard of it all is what makes me question the ideology in the first place. Do you not understand the falsehood of it? The two-faced approach to it? I believe men and women have distinct roles and when they work together in harmony that is when true balance is achieved. That is what they are yet to understand,” the actor stressed.
