Nancy, a Nigerian woman who claims to be a psychologist, advised an alleged rape victim to dress appropriately to prevent being raped.
The victim, Anjola Oluwa, revealed on Twitter that she had been assaulted twice and boasted that she was not a bitter feminist as a result.
In response to Anjola's account, Nancy provided her with advice on how to prevent being raped again.
ALSO READ: UNIBEN Student Found Dead In River, Police Arrest Colleagues
She admonished her to stop wearing short, tight clothing and to stop dressing half-naked, and she advised her to try wearing hijabs to avoid attracting men's attention.
@flexiblenancy tweeted, “You got raped twice? So sad
Let me advice you as a psychologist
1-Stop wearing mini skirts
2- stop dressing half naked
3- stop wearing tight clothes
4- pray hard
5- please try jihab you will thank me later.”
See below,
Her advice has been met with massive backlash on the microblogging platform, with many dragging her through the mud for indirectly blaming women for males raping them.
Read some comments below,
@busayo_cole wrote, “Indian women are usually dressed in saree or salwar kameez. yet, there was an average of 86 rape cases daily in 2021.
This level of idiocy should be a punishable offence.”@mariceecee98 wrote, “Claim to be a psychologist, but here you are victim blaming and shaming. Disgusting! You know women who are dressed in full Hijab are victims of r@pe and SA all the time. Has nothing to do with how a woman’s dressed and you know it.”
@its_emmanuell wrote, “This perpetuates rape culture. It don’t matter what you got on, you shouldn’t be raped because of what you wear!!”
@eliah_hunt wrote, “The worst psychologist ever. And of cause you’re Nigerian”
Esewi Ogbebor 1 y
Hehe