Tweet Asks Women If They Would Give Unemployed Husband Their Job

It’s impossible to go a single day on Twitter without seeing a take so bad it seems like parody. Today’s winner just barely missed the deadline for International Women’s Day, although it clearly would have been more appropriate if it had hit that date.

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“Ladies, if you own a company and your husband is out of [a] job would you step down from your position as the CEO for your husband to take over?” asked Ubi Franklin, who is described on Wikipedia as a married “Nigerian music artist manager, Politician, Entrepreneur, TV show host and the founder of record label Made Men Music Group.”

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Obviously, this is a stupid question.

This question is so stupid, in fact, that it sounds like trolling. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.

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The responses to Franklin’s tweet were largely negative, with a lot of folks blasting him for the underlying misogyny going on here.

For real, it’s really annoying when some men feel that way.

— E L O N E L (@iam_elonel) March 10, 2021

Is this even a question to ask at all? Being a husband is NOT a qualification for being a CEO. Ahnnnn

— SEYIFUNMI OLAGBAJU (@_seyifunmi_) March 10, 2021

Foolish question indeed. It infuriated me so much I was for a minute looking to comment something hurtful but it’s not worth it and this comment and it questions is enough

— Quad_XI (@Itz_Quadrizz) March 10, 2021

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Short answer: no.

Long answer: FUCK NO.

He can take care of the home, it’s very fulfilling, at least that’s what WE’VE been told for decades.

— Elizabeth Stockwell (@biffyqueen) March 10, 2021

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Others turned the line of questioning back on Franklin.

They will never answer you ma, they are way too selfish to be at the bottom. Supremacy

— Farma Dunor (@dunor_farma) March 10, 2021

And plan dinner rather than waiting until she is in traffic on the way home to say “what’s for dinner?”

— pj (@pj90212450) March 10, 2021

You can. God has ordained husbands to know things better than their wives do. The day you married her is the day her knowledge of medicine will be transferred to you

— Mercy (@poshmercee) March 10, 2021

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I wouldn’t tolerate a man who did this. I wouldn’t take his phone away, I would make sure he and his phone went far away from me.

— Iceni (@DianeDianerap) March 10, 2021

Did my husband get my years of experience and skills via sex? did making me breakfast give him database skills ? https://t.co/jRCY5EbPQK

— Sydette Dread Gorgon (@Blackamazon) March 10, 2021

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All said and done, there was a lot of sarcasm to be found in the responses, and it was very well earned.

Good answer. . As a man i feel ashamed a fellow man would even think this is a smart question to ask.

— Oluwaseun Ojo (@seun_aiye) March 10, 2021

Yasss girl… He will run it better after all my place is in the kitchen, I only started the company because of him, he’s my king.

— BittersweetJazz Official © #EndSars (@DutchessAonani) March 10, 2021

Very disgusting. Has our vagina finished familiarizing with the cooking manual it came with? God forbid!

— Mercy (@poshmercee) March 10, 2021

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Some tweets are just better left in the drafts, Franklin.

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*First Published: March 10, 2021, 8:44 am