The first time I heard of the Bride Price calculator was via instagram as girls put up their scores. Then twitter, and then of course, via the uproar. Those who thought it was fun, those who thought it was sexist, and those who were enraged that others were enraged.
1. So what’s in the calculator? Ratings based on cliches like education, skin colour, beauty and more.
2. What could have been there? Well, they could have brought up questions like how many partners the girl has had.
3. What should have been there? Marks for speaking a Nigerian language and err… for loving the groom.
4. Is it worth the uproar? Yes. And no. No because when it comes right down to it, the Bride Price calculator is ‘fun’. You go to the website with a couple of friends, pick the silliest answers, wait for the elders to consult and then get the result!
5. But Yes because, beneath the surface, it shows our prejudices. Apparently, not all accents should get the same deductions, and then there’s skin colour — dark is lower than light but don’t worry, there’s Lupita. As for career, oil and gas gets more points than say, ‘talk talk’. If only they knew…
6. Cosmos’s take A Cosmopolitan magazine headline terms the calculator sexist and disgusting. I have taken a poll and no one finds that calculator disgusting. And as for Sexist? Cosmo is one to talk.
7. A non-Nigerian’s take A foreigner took the test and found it to be funny, and while not sexist, still a caricature of the system. Ironically, the test gives them really high scores!
8. If the test does offend you, you can go sign the petition to take it down.
9. As for me though, seeing as I am short, dark and a ‘talk talk’ specialist, you can imagine how high I scored. 10. After all is said and done, please remember
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