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Know your worth- Don't lower your standards to please men

Silas Nyanchwani, famed for celebrating masculinity on social media and previously in a column on this newspaper, opened a can of worms when he suggested that women from well-off families are down to earth unlike those from struggling backgrounds. He claimed the latter ones set unrealistic standards for their men that they also can’t afford.

He went ahead to say it is affordable to date or hang out with a middle or upper class because they sip whatever is on the table and are very cool about it, unlike broke lasses, who scoff at “cheap drinks” and order foods they have never seen or tasted in their lives.

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