A viral cheating post sparked opinions ranging from anger to empathy, but one comment trended for the wrong reasons: “Women wey get that kind nyash no fit stay one place.” At first glance, it looks like casual shade. In reality, it’s body-based stereotyping that shifts blame from personal decisions to physical appearance.
Linking curves or body shape to infidelity reduces women to biological metaphors instead of accountable adults. It encourages a damaging narrative: that a woman’s attractiveness or figure determines her loyalty—or lack of it. This fosters insecurity in relationships, normalizes objectification, and quietly excuses cheating as “expected behavior” for certain body types.
Loyalty is a choice shaped by character and honor, not hip size. The real red flag isn’t the nyash—it’s a culture that laughs at betrayal while policing women’s bodies as fate markers for fidelity.
Call out behavior. Stop branding bodies.
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