I woke up this morning feeling all jazzed-up.

You just have to feel superb when you wake up and you’re saluted by your morning wood. You’ll feel like the man of the year and you certainly wouldn’t need any plaque for that.

Simply put, it is a daily personal victory for every man, gay, straight or bisexual.

As I said earlier my people, I woke up feeling charged-up, ready to do a couple dozens sit-ups back to back, and believe me I had no intention of taking shots at anybody today.

As is my daily morning ritual, I picked up my phone and started surfing.

It’s funny how I do my morning devotion on Twitter nowadays- retweeting Amens to prayers of people looking for retweets… but that’s not where I’m headed, so let’s face front.

One of the headlines that gripped me as I scrolled down my timeline is the Glamour Woman of the Year Award. I was like ‘oh! They had that already?”

Inquisitive me, I headed to the blogosphere for more news about the headline and the winner of the prestigious award.

I thought to myself: Must be a very brave and hardworking woman, who probably came from nothing to stupendous success and has inspired a lot of other females around the world.

Yeah, something like that.

By now, I’d stopped feeling great about my morning wood. Victories like that only last for fleeting minutes but as it’s a daily phenomenon, it’s quite understandable. Another victory comes tomorrow morning! Old soldier stand down.

So back to what I went to check online…

I was expecting to see Wonder-woman straight outta DC comics holding the woman of the year award plaque while the paparazzi clicked shots at her impervious and flawless skin.

Skin that has over the years grown resilient from the drive of a female that has refused to stay down in a largely patriarchal world.

Skin that is immune to all the hate, sexist comments and racial slurs that would have certainly been hurled her way on social media.

I expected to see a skin- that despite the conditioning of the female lot from infancy to stand down and let their male counterpart blossom- decided to break the norm and rear her head as a sunflower.

I couldn’t have been more wrong… or maybe I just did not understand what I read. I just couldn’t believe what I read.

If you ask me, I think there are women who have excelled in the past year tremendously and it had nothing to do with getting rid of their daily morning wood victories and you would expect that the woman of the year would at least, not go to somebody who was a man until a handful of months ago.

I mean, maybe Michelle Obama or Oprah could get rid of their boobs and build a little muscle here and there… then we would have two running candidates for Man of the Year since we are interchanging gender roles now.

Now check the irony in this: The woman of the year hasn’t even been a woman for a year.

So far, I have not mentioned anybody’s name, have I?

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Commentary by Adebayo Emuleomo