The Girlfriend Allowance Seminar, something so outdated you’d be forgiven for thinking that you hopped in a time warp and emerged in 1940’s America.

Wrong, because the seminar is set to take place in Randburg next month. For just R300 those in attendance can learn from self-taught seduction expert Mandisa Mahlobo, who has been forced to defend the event in the wake of a public outcry.

She spoke to EWN and here’s what she said:

Mahlobo says she wants to encourage women to gain better control over their relationships and get men to start spoiling them again.

“Every time women come to me, the issue of money always comes up. When they talk to me about how their husband is cheating on them or how they are not being taken care of in their relationships, they say ‘please teach me how to seduce my man so I can for once feel loved and pampered”…

She says the essential focus is ‘ukubheja’ (spoiling a woman).

“Every woman, whether they admit to it publically or not, would love to feel like a queen and be pampered by their king.  People suddenly feel like this is something new but that’s nonsense because ‘ukubheja’ is something that has been happening for years. Nature believes that a man needs to provide for a woman but women have moved, which is beautiful. [Women] are making money, but there is a lot of confusion. All women have got power in them to steer the relationship to whatever direction they want but they don’t know about this power, or they know but they don’t know how to utilise it.”

Join the queue those of you offended, we’ll take the criticisms of psychologist Khosi Jiyane for now:

She says it objectifies both women and men.

“You are covertly teaching a woman how to access this man’s ATM pin so that you can get the money out of the ATM. You are objectifying not only yourself but objectifying men as ATM’s.”

Jiyane says Mahlobo should be teaching women how to provide for themselves.

“The sad thing for me is that instead of teaching women to be able to provide for themselves, what they want and need so that we are able to participate as equal partners in relationships without money being the currency of our connection. What we are teaching women is to, in fact, manipulate someone to give you what you are not willing to give to yourself.”

So far 100 wannabe seductresses have signed up for the course. A fool and her his money are soon parted…

[source:ewn]