The Demise of BRANGELINA

Turning on my phone to hear the latest news and the saddest of all the news meets my eyes. My favourite celebrity couple "Brangelina" are getting divorced!!! And I honestly couldn't believe it.

For 10 minutes straight, I sat staring at the screen growing sadder and sadder by the minute. I mean, I have followed Brangelina from the onset. The very onset. Their romance inspired so many romances, my sister's Franessa being one of them. Through the co-habitation for 10 years, their individual career successes, their lovely children, adopted and birthed, even the mastectomy Angelina Jolie carried out on herself when she realised she had the defective BRACA-1 gene for breast cancer, the eventual marriage that made me squeal with joy....everything!
I. LOVED. THEM.

The accredited their separation to 'irreconcilable differences' and all that came to my mind was....it really took you guys 12 years to figure that out???

Then the media space (Nigerian Facebook for one) was filled with a lot of memes:

1) Her offences are plenty:

Pound yam, she cannot o, she wee be finding poundo yam upandan

Watch war room, mba

Pray for 1 hour at night, no.

Slice and use omo-olo to pound your okro,  no way, she will buy grated one in the market

Bow down before your husband and serve him food while on your knees and don't stand up till he finishes his meals, rara o

Destroy your washing machine and wash your husband's boxers with your bare hands, it is too much

She can't keep a home, ordinary home o, be forming feminist and acting upandan

Salary o, she will never surrender to her husband  and you call this a wife?  Msscheew.

Your husband is cheating, ehen? Be submissive jo! Men are like that, they are the same. Na only you be First Lady jo

Bikini material oshi

2) Didn't she cheat with him while he was married with another woman. Karma is a bitch! The same cane used for the old wife will be used on the new wife period!

3) She runs a 3years programs will all her boo...check the statistics:
Brad Pitt . 2014-2016,
Billy Bob Thornton  2000–2003
Jonny Lee Miller 1996–1999

4) and she went and had a double mastectomy and had her womb removed because she was fearing ordinary cancer. How can she be a woman without womb and breast?

On and on it went. Facebook. Twitter. The works. I'm still sad they are getting divorced and I kept wondering what brought Feminism into the mix. A part of me is wishing, wishing beyond every shred of hope, that they reconcile and get back together. 😢😢😢😢

Comments

  1. Chinwendu Ifediora21 September 2016 at 07:06

    Nice writeup dear, I felt bad too when I heard about their divorce

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