The Crew has, wasting much ado, decided to tackle the stupidity of some people, especially men.<\/p>\n
As the World Cup has just started, excuses of going out in the evening become commonplace in homes. Women [wives and spouses] are told flat out that the man of the house is going to their favourite watering hall, clubs, and even public video showing shacks around town, to watch World Cup games.<\/p>\n
It is this new catch of the Crew, Dr. B, who raises the topic. To the disappointment of others in the Crew, he suggests that we issue a \u2018Position Letter to the Public\u2019 against the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know it is obvious that many men will lie to their wives and spouses that they are going to watch these games, yet they don\u2019t even know the teams partaking in this global competition. What bothers me is that most of us, men, have TV facilities \u2013 fully paid DSTV subscription; yet we choose not to watch the World Cup in the confines of home?\u201d he wonders.<\/p>\n
But \u2018Joe Being Joe\u2019 quashes the sentiments. \u201cZimenezo ndiye zofoyira, kunyumba tizikalimbirana ma rimoti ndi ana ofuna ma katuni <\/em>[cartoons]? After all, the joy of watching football hinges on the arguments by the bar counter \u2013 that is an obvious fact.\u201d<\/p>\n He goes on: \u201cEven if one of us strays to the comfort zone of a concubine, it is not wrong; that is a fringe benefit of any married man. World Cup or no World Cup, men stray to some comfort zone in the form of a lover\u2019s bedroom or a commercial sex-service centre, actually others do it right during the working hours; hence, we should not blame the World Cup. If we do so, we may end up bringing confusion and igniting poisonous atmospheres in homes!\u201d<\/p>\n But \u2018Atsogoleri\u2019 Rob M decides to back Dr. B. He says it is, indeed, true that people tend to take advantage of some situations or occasions to commit adultery or cheat on their spouses.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, it is not only men who will misuse the World Cup for selfish reasons. Some women will also take advantage of the failure of their husbands to pay TV subscriptions to seek permission from their husbands to watch games at their neighbours\u2019 or friends\u2019 places\u2014 in some instances, a long distance from home. Cheats are cheats, they don\u2019t run out of scapegoats,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n And the Crew decides to go flat-out by embarking on a civic education programme to sensitise people to the dangers of taking advantage of the on-going World Cup to cheat on their lovers, spouses and even parents.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a social responsibility role to play. Men should not be denied visas to go and watch World Cup; if the women are in doubt, they should just accompany the men and that would ignite more fun for other men watching the soccer contest. We should also sensitise others to the dangers of cheating and using the World Cup as a scapegoat to meet lovers\u2014tikapanda kutero ambiri amwalira ukamatha mpikisanowu, mabanjanso atha!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Crew has, wasting much ado, decided to tackle the stupidity of some people, especially men. As the World Cup has just started, excuses of going out in the evening become commonplace in homes. Women [wives and spouses] are told flat out that the man of the house is going to their favourite watering hall, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67285,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67282\/revisions\/67285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}