miemio
7th March 2007, 11:19 PM
I just wanted to congratulate you all on the international womens day, I hope you are taken extra good care of by yourself, your men, family and friends today! But this is not just a day for gratulations, it is also important to be a little serious...
Imagine not being allowed to study, work or choose your own spouse.
Envision your life being determined to include nothing but taking care of a household and your children for your ENTIRE life, just because of your gender.
Picture yourself as a possesion of your father or your husband (he might very well be an old pig 20 years older than you), and your virginity and womb as a source of income for your family.
Imagine not being allowed to make choices about what to do with your life, being denied education and respect because you are believed to be less intelligent than any man.
Can you see yourself being told by society that you are evil and amoral because your body awakens sinful thoughts in the opposite sex, and not being able to protest because you are inferior?
Imagine being raped and then being punished for being such a whore by being stoned to death.
Imagine being percieved as less of a human than a man and considered to be of lesser value, just because you were born a girl.
These things were the reality for women for ages, and still in this day and age many women live under these conditions. The past century has included a revolution in womens lifes worldwide, a dramatic change in freedom and frames for us to live within. It is so easy to forget the fight our mothers and mothers before them have fought for us. We should try to remember in our daily lifes that the freedom we take for granted have only been ours for a very short time and it could be taken away from us very fast if we don't fight to keep it. I invite you all to consider these things today, and maybe try in the ways you can to help free the women who still are shackled by societal norms, ignorance and religion.
(if you don't know where to start, try www.amnesty.org (http://forum.oddthought.com/www.amnesty.org))
And to the men..
A big warm thanks to all you wonderful men who treat women as equals, you have put up with a lot of extremefeminism in your lifes growing up in the past decades, kudos to you for hanging in there! (f)
Imagine not being allowed to study, work or choose your own spouse.
Envision your life being determined to include nothing but taking care of a household and your children for your ENTIRE life, just because of your gender.
Picture yourself as a possesion of your father or your husband (he might very well be an old pig 20 years older than you), and your virginity and womb as a source of income for your family.
Imagine not being allowed to make choices about what to do with your life, being denied education and respect because you are believed to be less intelligent than any man.
Can you see yourself being told by society that you are evil and amoral because your body awakens sinful thoughts in the opposite sex, and not being able to protest because you are inferior?
Imagine being raped and then being punished for being such a whore by being stoned to death.
Imagine being percieved as less of a human than a man and considered to be of lesser value, just because you were born a girl.
These things were the reality for women for ages, and still in this day and age many women live under these conditions. The past century has included a revolution in womens lifes worldwide, a dramatic change in freedom and frames for us to live within. It is so easy to forget the fight our mothers and mothers before them have fought for us. We should try to remember in our daily lifes that the freedom we take for granted have only been ours for a very short time and it could be taken away from us very fast if we don't fight to keep it. I invite you all to consider these things today, and maybe try in the ways you can to help free the women who still are shackled by societal norms, ignorance and religion.
(if you don't know where to start, try www.amnesty.org (http://forum.oddthought.com/www.amnesty.org))
And to the men..
A big warm thanks to all you wonderful men who treat women as equals, you have put up with a lot of extremefeminism in your lifes growing up in the past decades, kudos to you for hanging in there! (f)