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| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Actually i happen to believe in true equality. Women's day is not a time for self congratulatory pats on the back. Its a time to focus on women's issues. And women's issues happen to also affect men! So the moment i bring up some issues pertaining to women, feminism, and how present day thinking is leading women down the wrong path, suddenly im a bad guy? I know what women's day is about. Its about awareness and trying to solve problems.
It's true that special interest groups play the role of the victim and in canada its all about money (whether its raw money or in the form of control).
You are so very wrong by trying to suggest that im some sort of chauvenist just because i dont roll over and play dead the moment someone decides to force feed me their played out PC tripe. True equality is just that, EQUALITY. And from where i am sitting, present day "feminists" want dominance, not equality.
I could bring up a large list of examples but im sure you can already figure them out for yourself.
Im highly offended that just by questioning feminism and women's day that it could be suggested that i am a chauvenist. In fact id argue that most so called "feminists" are much more chauvenistic than the men they complain about.
Women's day should be changed to "humanity day" because issues that affect women also have a counter effect on men and vice versa. And men are part of the solution, not the problem. So instead of throwing out insults at the first person that challenges the status quo, maybe you should listen to a fresh perspective.
Ill add something else to this as well, The One thing I have never done is personally attcaked someone on this board just because i disagree with them. (other than ryan parks hahaha). So if anyone should be offended, it's me. But frankly i dont really care. |
i don't believe this is an extreme point of view. it's REALISTIC!
sorry Sarah, to disagree here with you, i understand your anger and share some of your frustrations and sentiments. but you do have to admit that there really are women out there who are 'extremist' in their feminist ways and this is where I disagree.
of course we still have to deal with certain engrained social norms and points of views when it comes to women's rights, however it does not mean we are barred from taking things a step further. it might still be a bit difficult to get to those executive jobs, however the door is open and it is possible and will be more possible as time goes on.
it is also a matter of perspective. we don't need to pat ourselves on the back, but what we do need to do is to focus on what has been achieved and what can be achieved and what we REALLY want. i don't consider myself a victim. i could say i am a victim of the system that fails/ -ed me. but more so on the international level. not here on canadian ground.
i chose to book out of this 'bandwagon & conveyor belt society' and choose to live life according to my own standards, visions, wants and needs, hopes and dreams. that's all. i have nothing to prove to anyone, except to myself. i've had enough of the so called 'dimpolatic' game, especially on the UN/ international level. it is saturated with corruption and they truly are tools and fools trying to keep up with this selfish and warped 'monkey business' called bureaucracy and politics which make noooooooooo sense at all and with the biggest monkey of them all sitting at the wheel and choking on pretzels! THAT is the joke!! this is only a means to an end to divert the attention from what is actually going on. This is the news for the mob and the people who don't know any better and believe everything they see through the manipulated information they get fed on a daily basis. so in this perspective, all the doors i need to be open ARE open to me. thank god for Canada, the rest of the world can go fuk off b/c i am not going to be victim of THAT any longer trying to bend over backward for a career that is for the 'cause of the greater good'. the world will keep spinning the way it wants and you as a little person will get caught up in that hamster wheel. take action for yourself! think outside that 'wheel'.
but, yes, i agree, when it comes to women internationally - it is heart-breaking, saddening, devastating, frustrating and almost discouraging ... but only b/c of these outside forces of the so-called 'political game'. it's 'nice' that the UN is this supposed noble knight in shining armour ... but how far can he go? only as far as his ventures are financed by the people pulling the strings in the background.
From its Headquarters to its furthest field work, UN marks Women's Day
8 March 2006 – From its towering Headquarters in New York to the seared fields of Nigeria, from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to case workers fighting rape in Nepal to special goodwill ambassador Nicole Kidman, the United Nations today marked International Women's Day with calls to boost the role of women in decision-making.
“The international community is finally beginning to understand a fundamental principle: women are every bit as affected as any man by the challenges facing humanity in the 21st century in economic and social development, as well as in peace and security,” Mr. Annan said in a message.
“The world is also starting to grasp that there is no policy more effective in promoting development, health and education than the empowerment of women and girls. And I would venture that no policy is more important in preventing conflict, or in achieving reconciliation after a conflict has ended,” he added.
He noted that there are now 11 women Heads of State or Government and three countries Chile, Spain and Sweden now have gender parity in Government.
“But we have far, far more to do,” he warned. “The rate of progress overall is slow.”
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=17730&Cr=women&Cr1=
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Last edited by disko-kandi on Mar-11-2006 at 09:39
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