Since I am self employed and I work from home, I’ve made it a point to jog regularly—in order to keep body and soul fit and take a break from the long hours I stay behind the computer. The gym has not been helpful except that they are making a fortune on my back. And that reminds me, I need to cancel that gym membership as I cannot even remember the last time I was there…
During one of my regular joggings, a 48-year old Nigerian neighbour of mine shouted from the other side of the street “Vincent, are you still running around wasting your legs”—in his thick Nigerian accent. He added “the women of today do not care about six packs or how fit you look Omo Ghana, they care about how deep your pocket is”.
I laughed it off and continued my jogging, after all, he says a lot of rubbish all the time and I quickly bagged the above as one of his non-serious utterances. But then, something happened last 3 days and I realized, my Nigerian neighbour was somewhat right—about majority of today’s women.
As I’ve explained above, I was not jogging because of the reason my neighbour implied, but his statement stretches to the other side of the ocean. Today’s women seem to place the depth of a man’s pocket above each and everything—including morals, character, love, decency and others…
A friend of mine saw a picture of a childhood female friend who lives in Ghana and kept bothering me about passing on her number to him. He wouldn’t stop asking and since I couldn’t just pass on another person’s phone number without her permission, I decided to speak to my Ghana based female friend about this.
I sent her a Whatsapp message, saying, “Hun, my friend says he likes you and wants your number so he can get to know you”. She quickly responded “Is he rich?”.
To be frank, I was shocked—and even though I expected her to ask questions, this was not the first relevant question I expected such an educated young woman to ask. I guess education cannot even break down the theory of today’s women caring more and more about the depth of a man’s pocket, rendering other attributes irrelevant.
I knew our generation do not have deeper understanding of relationship, love and intimacy—but I did not know money has this quick become the only reasonable substitute for all things which command attraction and getting to know someone.
Some few years ago, we had pockets of gold diggers who suffered in the hands of both men and women but today, we have a whole generation of gold diggers—who are not frightened to lay their cards on the table and be bold with the fact that, money talks and nothing else really matters anymore.
I remember those days when women were a little cunning. Even if all they wanted was your money, they wouldn’t make it so obvious for fear of being indecently labelled. Prostitutes were even subtle with their approach, though money was and remains their prime motivation.
A woman will open her legs for you to get into your pocket but she will at least do so with a little bit of respect for her gender—and make it as if, the money is secondary though important to her. That was the days of self-pride, defined by the desire to be respected—no matter how little the respect would be.
But this has quickly changed—put the plastic card or the bundle of cash on the table and though not a prostitute, she will warm your bed and become whatever dragon you want her to be…Make sure you have a fire extinguisher to quench the fire when it gets unbearable in bed.
As result of the shift in activities, we’ve even tried to redefine prostitution, so that we do not catch every woman—because majority are doing it. Instead of the traditional definition of prostitution springing from the latin word- prostituta which catches up as “offer for sale”, prostitution is no more the “practice of engaging in sexual relations in exchange for payment or some other benefit”. It is redefined as “doing so on commercial basis” in the minds of many.
It is no more just the morally weak or the shallow ones who pay extensive attention to a man’s pocket. It has become womanly necessary that a man’s pocket must be deep— that way, the quicker a woman’s heart can be attracted.
Money indeed has a strong magnetic force of attraction and this is another reason why I need to continue staking my Euro millions so that one day I will get that bottomless pocket. After all, you never know when love will be completely wiped out (extinct) together with intelligence, morals, appearances and all the other attributes of connection…
I am not saying all women are this way—but we all know the score.
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