April 16, (THEWILL) – Actress Nancy Isime, has revealed that portraying female entertainers as promiscuous damages young girls.
The actress, who earlier denied claims of having an affair with married men to drive her career, shared her view on how sex related stereotypes damages the perception of successful entertainers by young girls who look up to them.
She made this known while speaking on the latest episode of Hip TV show Trending, which featured Ruggedman.
She revealed that at least one million girls are made to think that they can’t be successful without yielding to sexual predators.
“If I do music, movies, fashion, business right, I can make it. In a country where things work and negative stereotypes are not being said, it’s because their media puts people on a certain pedestal.
“This creates role models younger people can look up to. There are Forbes and Vogue that literally exult their rich so much that we Africans start to look up to white people. Our media houses can also help us out.
“I’m an actress and I don’t need to sleep with any man for anyone to say it. This puts people in a funny place and overrates married people. Let’s start to tell the truth. Do not generalise.
“You make young people think that Nancy Isime too is sleeping around. You think you are rubbishing Nancy, but you are putting down and damaging at least a million girls who think they could make it themselves.
“You are putting them in the hands of predators who are waiting to snatch them up. They think they can make it without sleeping with a married man, doing drugs or doing yahoo. If there is something wrong, put it out.
“But if there isn’t, don’t put stories up or generalise, at least for the young ones. It is not just for the bloggers, but for the people. The rich are easily stereotyped as ritualists. I’m good but it’s something I feel has to be talked about.
