ICHEOKU says following the US Gymnastics scandal which sent Dr Larry Nasser to prison, one would have expected the separation of the wolves from the sheeps in order to guard against any such future scandal. But apparently, such preventive, proactive measure was not put in place, hence the latest scandal engulfing the National Women Soccer League.
The solution is simple, since there is no crystal ball for knowing who is a potential sexual abuser, all women sports, including women soccer, should be left entirely for women alone. All women's sports should be solely women's affair, left for women coaches, women administrators and women managers, and that way, put an end to the regularly occurring unwanted sexual harassments of sportswomen by their male handlers. This is not to suggest that lesbian and transgendered females do not sexually harass women or are incapable of sexually harassing women, but it is not as much as full bloodied males who are always drunk on testosterone and like bulls in musk, frequently seeking drainage.
Although it is going to be difficult to accomplish such a gender only exclusivity in women's sports, because there are not enough women manpower (woman-power) to fill all the necessary positions, but it is worth making the effort. More women should be recruited into sports academies to train for these positions in order to have this problem permanently fixed. Some men, if not most of them, can hardly look the other way when constantly surrounded by a beehive of young healthy bodies. A matter made even worse when they have some form of authority over the women and are easily tempted to venture unto the forbidden terrain or in some cases, even demand a quid pro quo sexual favors for being selected to play or participate in the teams regularly.
It is an authority thing, meant to control the women and have them subjugated to satisfying their libidinous desires. The sports world is just like any other work place, admitted every work places have not been cleared of all men; but the sports world is somewhat different because there are very few limited spaces available for participants, thus making the competition very rife. It is this scarcity and the desire to fill them that these abusers are exploiting to gain undue advantage over these women, using "play to play" as a weapon of choice. It is not right nor justifiably excusable under any circumstances and all measures should be explored that would permanently put an end to it. There are also many victims who are currently dying in silence due to the shame of coming out, not being believed or fear of possible retaliatory loss of place and position in the team.
For any one creep caught, there are many others who have not been caught as well as those who are just about to get started. The problem is prevalent and enduring within the league, which made Purple-hair fella, Megan Rapione to lash out, saying "Burn it all down, let all of their heads roll" while reacting to the news of fired Washington Spirit's head coach Richie Burke and North Carolina Courage's head coach Paul Riley. Also that the League's Commissioner Lisa Baird quickly threw in her resignation equally shows that she knew about it but failed to do something about it, which has now added more combustible materials to the eruptions in the League. A serious, across the board investigation and real solutions are needed right now to, as Megan rightly put it, protect the right person/s.
The National Women Soccer League can achieve this by becoming more proactive in dealing with this problem, instead of mitigating resultant damages. It also does not matter that some people are attacking womanhood in our world today and trying to invent an utopian genderless society where males and females are blended into just persons or people. It also does not matter or should not matter that some women claim that they feel and believe that they are men and vice versa. But when an issue as horrible as the present rises, everyone should band together to admit the biological fact of the indisputable distinction between the sexes. We should therefore put aside all the woke political correctness divisions and together, find a permanent solution to a pervasive problem by letting women do their thing, coach and manage their women leagues. #EndTheScandal.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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