Nollywood actress Mary Njoku has questioned the tendency among some men to label women as gold diggers when they benefit from the generosity of wealthy partners.
The mother of three asked what such men should be called when they also benefit from women who provide them with financial or material support.
Njoku argued that people naturally gravitate towards value in both men and women, but noted that society often applies different standards when it comes to how men and women benefit from relationships.
Her post reads …
“If benefiting from a wealthy person’s generosity makes a woman a gold digger, what exactly do we call the 17 men eating his food, wearing what he bought, enjoying his money and calling themselves his boys?
The truth is, people gravitate towards value. Men do it. Women do it. Friends do it. Relatives do it. Employees do it. Everyone wants to be close to something that makes life better.
The double standard isn’t that people love money.
It’s that when men benefit from proximity to wealth, we give the behaviour a respectable name. When women do the same thing, we give it a dirty one.
Everyone loves gold.
The difference is in what we choose to call the people standing close to it”.
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