A lady made a questionable and insensitive comment stating, “Boys who call the woman that birthed them ‘mummy’,” and paired it with the picture of a rainbow-colored dog—an obvious attempt to insinuate homosexuality. This kind of comment is not only baseless but also harmful.
Equating a simple cultural habit—many Nigerian men naturally call their mothers mummy—with sexuality is a form of mockery that stigmatizes both normal family affection and the LGBTQ community. It turns an innocent expression into a tool for online bullying and fuels unnecessary shame around emotional closeness between sons and their mothers.
Such comments trivialize real issues and promote a culture of ridicule, where normal behavior is twisted into something negative just for engagement.
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