CONTEMPORARY PROPAGANDA FOR GIRL-CHILD AGAINST THE BOY-CHILD: A CASE OF GENDER INSENSI

Abstract

Recently there is this clarion call for proper care of the girl-child with regard to total protection, general training and otherwise. And no one cares about the proper and functional well-being of the boy-child. This contemporary propaganda for the good of girl-child against the boy-child is simply a case of insensitivity with the much lauded gender equality and sex roles often founded on the extremisms in feminism. Using the method of critical analysis, the researcher hermeneutically calls for sensitive attention as the society cares for the girl-child properly to the harm and neglect of the boy-child who will at the end of the day have something serious and often permanent relation with the girl-child. And the whole careful and cautious edifices built on and in the girl- child collapses with any encounter with the carelessly and care-freely brought up boy-child, the neglected boy-child. This paper calls for careful attention of the propagandists that what is good for the goose is equally good for the gander if not