Another quote
While researching for an essay .... feminism stuff...which is an issue I dont know where I stand on actually.
Am I a feminist? Probably. But I dont want the label. I dont want to be an "ist" about anything really.....( ooo maybe that makes me a bit bland! )
I know I want the right to work and have the respect of my peers, both male and female, for a job well done. To have the right to not have the money paid to me to be less than a male doing the same job.
I want the right to have my opinions heard (!) and not dismissed because I am a woman.
But I also want men to be men. I like doors to be held open for me, and to walk on the inside of the pavement, and my order to be taken first by the waiter, not because the waiter thinks it should be that way, but because the man I am with knows its the right thing to do, but also, for men to be masculine.
Maybe thats about respecting people not about what sex you are. For gentlemen to be gentlemen and knowing that some people (me) like to have both things, a little bit of the patriarcial system of living with a large dollop of women being whatever they want to be.
Anyway I found this quote, which after rambling on, and not making an awful lot of sense I thought I would share with you!
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. ~Faith Whittlesey
(she had great lip-gloss too!!)
lybxx
Am I a feminist? Probably. But I dont want the label. I dont want to be an "ist" about anything really.....( ooo maybe that makes me a bit bland! )
I know I want the right to work and have the respect of my peers, both male and female, for a job well done. To have the right to not have the money paid to me to be less than a male doing the same job.
I want the right to have my opinions heard (!) and not dismissed because I am a woman.
But I also want men to be men. I like doors to be held open for me, and to walk on the inside of the pavement, and my order to be taken first by the waiter, not because the waiter thinks it should be that way, but because the man I am with knows its the right thing to do, but also, for men to be masculine.
Maybe thats about respecting people not about what sex you are. For gentlemen to be gentlemen and knowing that some people (me) like to have both things, a little bit of the patriarcial system of living with a large dollop of women being whatever they want to be.
Anyway I found this quote, which after rambling on, and not making an awful lot of sense I thought I would share with you!
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. ~Faith Whittlesey
(she had great lip-gloss too!!)
lybxx
posted by lyb | 4:02 AM
4 Comments:
I dont think so...well I hope not!!
xxx
well horray for "old fogeyies" then!!!
xxx
I dont actually say it, but i might ...you know......struggle... a little on occation!! (obviously only if there is a 'big-strong-boy nearby, otherwise I just get on with it!) oh *why* am I admitting this???
(was going to write hangs head in shame...but..you know, I dont...if men are that easily manipulated, then .....)
Dave...dont hate me!!!!
really laughing!!!
I dont actually say it, but i might ...you know......struggle... a little on occation!! (obviously only if there is a 'big-strong-boy nearby, otherwise I just get on with it!) oh *why* am I admitting this???
(was going to write hangs head in shame...but..you know, I dont...if men are that easily manipulated, then .....)
That's the jam jar thing isn't it.
nuffin wrong with the jam jar thing.
people have been doing that since before there were jam jars.
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