General News of Thursday, 15 February 2018<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n 2018-02-15<\/p>\n Controversial Counselor, George Cyril Lutterodt has rained down heavy on members of feminist group, Pepper Dem Ministries, describing them as, \u201cshameful\u201d and \u201cdisgraceful \u201cmaterials to their families.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know where you stand and you want to find yourself in a home where your husband is cooking for you to eat. You don\u2019t feel ashamed. Shameful people like that. You are a shameful and a disgraceful material to the family you belong to, because a woman\u2019s position is the kitchen, \u201che said.<\/p>\n Mr. Lutterodt was speaking on the back of the \u2018cooking\u2019 controversy that filled the media space after Legal Practitioner Ace Ankomah got into a social media banter with one Dela Goldheart after he expressed his opinion about a woman\u2019s role in a home.<\/p>\n \u201cA woman, even when she works (and every woman should work, if she can) should provide only if she wants to. But she is in charge of everything else that has to do with the home. Yes, it is her kitchen, not mine. That\u2019s why she chose everything in there. My only space in the house is my basement. Everywhere else is hers. I don\u2019t care. Just don\u2019t paint our room pink. That\u2019s all,\u201d portions of his post read.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t MAKE her do it. PROVIDE the means to do it so that even if she doesn\u2019t do it herself or isn\u2019t there to do it, it still gets done. For example, I expect dinner when I get home; and meals when I\u2019m home. You don\u2019t have to cook it. You don\u2019t have to serve it. Just make sure the system I have provided for produces and delivers the food,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n Facebook user and member of the Pepper Dem Ministries, Dela Goldheart felt offended by this statement and responded in a rather defensive manner.<\/p>\n She wrote, \u201cI never thought I will say this about you but I guess career excellence and knowledge in law doesn’t make you exceptional when it comes to issues affecting women. You grew up in a patriarchal society. The system is designed to favour you. You had no education on gender equality when growing up. But you know what? That can be changed. You have everything your wife has. I know you are smart enough to see that your wife does not use her vagina to cook or order food. And when it comes to strength, you even have more (likely). So if anyone should work and cook, it should be you. And one more thing, the meaning of daddy and mommy has never been static. Those who improve the world understand that change is one of the factors of progress. Think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Counselor Lutterodt said, \u201cIt is easy for people who don\u2019t understand anything about marriage to speak about marriage. So Pepper Dem Ministries, what I see is that they don\u2019t understand marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n He opinionated that, the whole ministry was a \u201cdemonic attack\u201d on marriages in the country and added that they may be coming from homes where marriage was not successful.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a shame a disgrace and it\u2019s a demonic attack on marriage. That the homes they are coming from, I believe if they have tested what marriage was these statements will not come from them, <\/p>\n He explained that, the whole debate about whether or not cooking for your husband is right, was unnecessary, saying all those who ascribe to the notion that doing house chores as a woman is slavery, are \u201cinsulting the intelligence of God.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you come and speak that cooking for your husband and doing house chores is slavery, you are insulting the intelligence of God. And who are you to come and condemn what the Lord has put together,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n The counsellor apologized to Ghanaians on the feminist group\u2019s behalf and said they are clueless and needed forgiveness for most of their utterances and deeds.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to apologize on their behalf because it is said that foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. When people go wrong a times we have to come and apologize on their behalf because, apology is part of humility. Let me apologize on behalf of the Pepper Dem ministry girls who don\u2019t know what they are about,\u201d he pleaded.<\/p>\n The global phenomenon which is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of equal opportunity of the sexes in all sects, has strong representation in various parts of the world including Ghana. One of such representations is the Pepper Dem Ministries.<\/p>\n Pepper Dem Ministries have been all over the media for being a strong voice in championing issues about feminism. <\/p>\n Their approach however, some find offensive and a deviation from what the phenomenon is truly about.<\/p>\n Many believe their teachings are deceptive and should not be granted audience on any platform to spread their misguiding messages.<\/p>\n Ace broadcaster Tommy Annan Forson reportedly said, \u201cWhen some women sit on radio and tell the whole world that when you cook for your husband it is slavery, they must be suffering from some kind of mental disorder. Keep buying fried rice and chicken or bofloat and coco for him wai. Ebufu sem. How the hell did they get onto that platform anyway? Managerial responsibility at that station needs to be looked at. A programme like that can destroy homes and marriages instead keeping homes together. This rubbish must stop. Children are being defiled, girls being raped, are those issues not more important to talk about?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t![\"Counselor](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/90346329.295.jpg\" "\\"Counselor")
Counselor George Cyril Lutterodt said members of the Pepper Dem Ministries are “disgraceful”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n