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Week 39:- Edition 03:-
Stereotype
Have you ever been judged on something, not because you did it but because it is believed that people like you do such? Have you been stereotyped before? Tell us about it and how it affected you.
The very first thing I did when I saw this topic that we've been asked to write about is laugh😂. I laughed quite hardly for a few minutes and I still have some weird smile on my face right now.🙂
Stereotypes? I know all about them. My name is Femi, Oluwafemi in full. The name means "God loves me." So it was a shock to me when I realized that the name Femi which is godly and saintly is associated with some very nasty acts😂. I know you all must have heard or even perpetrated the tales, rumors, and propaganda surrounding the name. I cannot even count the amount of Femi-related memes I receive every month from different people😂. Safe to say it's a lot.
Just in case there is anyone who is still oblivious of what I'm talking about, which is quite unlikely, I'll lay it out in simple and straightforward language. Yoruba are large known as a heartless bunch of heartbreakers who rein girls in, flirt with them, go through the motions, go all the way, only to break the girls heart after she must have fallen head over heels in love with them. And of all the Yoruba names that are synonymous with this 'wonderful' act, the most notorious of them is Femi, for some reason which I have yet to really understand.
Anyways, my name has always made a good number of people that are my peers see me in that light. They're mostly just joking sha, so it doesn't even annoy me, or piss me off, or anything like that. I mostly just find it hilarious. I mostly get reactions about the name from ladies, but guys sometimes join in just for the fun of it.
I met a girl in school last week through a mutual friend and we started talking that night. When I was about to leave and she asked for me name, and I told her it was "Femi," you should've seen the look on her face coz I'm not even entirely sure how to describe it. She basically just started laughing hysterically and telling me how she wasn't going to collect my number😂.
Meanwhile, I have also had girls come up to me with some underlying sexual innuendo, assuming that I'll be willing to satisfy their sexual needs as if I do that occupationally. Lmao.
The plot twist and the irony of this is that I think I am very different from the stereotypical Femi. At least, I think so😂. I am twenty four years old and I don't think there's a single girl out there who can point to me and say I broke her heart heartlessly in a manipulative way. As a matter of fact, I have only ever been in just one official relationship ever. We started seeing in February and we are still together and I most definitely have not cheated on her or anything like that.
So, you see. I am quite different from the stereotype that my name has caused to follow me around. I guess, to every rule, there's always exceptions.