03.08.10
International Women’s Day
March 7, 2010
Sunday was good. I set the clocks ahead last night thinking it was Daylight Savings Time, oh well it is next weekend. I did get to sleep in a little and then took a great walk with Nanook. He sure does love to go for walks. He could and does go potty in the yard but this is what he looks forward to doing every morning. He is just so happy to be out and about. We looked for Alley Cat but could not find her. She has not been seen since before the last big snow storm. Hope she is ok and just in someone’s house of moved to a warmer place to live. She was living in storm drain in never built subdivision. We check for her every day. Nanook knows when I say her name and looks around.
A lady came to look at Michelle’s bedroom set she is selling and picked up half of it and will come back later this week for rest. We are waiting on call backs on shelves, tv and cabinet, 2 PS2s and other odd stuff. We will have a yard sale later this month to clear out shed of piles to go.
I started soldering back of window repair. It looks good. I hope to finish up the back soldering to night, if not then tomorrow night after work.
In the afternoon I was at Ellipse. It was a quiet afternoon. I did get to go through the piles from my desk and read some articles I have been wanting to read. I cleaned the counter tops and window faces, they were covered with fingerprints. Thought about doing a big clean but decided against that to do things for myself. That is a change,
Happy International Women’s Day in the US and Russia March 8th
Wouldn’t be nice if every day was Women’s Day? It should be that way. No woman should be left behind, whether it be in school, at work, at home, at play or anywhere.
When we are little we are taught that we should play with certain toys and behave a certain way. Be a good little girl. Little girls don’t do that. Girls can’t do that. You cry like a girl. Quit acting like a little girl. Girls are steered away from technical classes and pushed to home economics classes. When we grow up we can go to colleges for girls to excel or we can got to co-ed and fight for the good classes with the males. Female students are even out casts in college classes. Women have been trained to wear makeup to be pretty, men never do their face for a date. Millions of dollars of industry would die if women stopped wearing makeup. Just think of all the ads we see every day, every magazine we pick up.
At work women are generally paid less for the same job than a man would be paid. They do enjoy the fast paced corporate ladder climb as men. If a working mother breastfeeds and asks for a pumping place she will probably be directed to the ladies room. Would you want your meals prepared in the bathroom?
At home the woman is expected to cook, clean, take care of the children, take care of the husband, take care of the house. Many times she will give up her career to stay home and take care of the children. When you walk away from your career it is sometimes impossible to go back and you have to start all over.
At play female athletes are paid less than their male counterparts. The US values its male teams more than the female teams, shown by number of teams, fan support and pay.
Elsewhere… men are never grabbed and raped in parks or parking garages. Purse snatchers don’t rip the pants of men to get there wallet. Service stations don’t lie to men about what needs to be repaired on their cars, they assume men know about cars and women don’t. And being a woman she trusts that the mechanic really did the work. She gets crude comments flung at her, wolf whistled at, men pinch her butt but no one pinches his butt. Men look at her chest, do women look at his crotch? If women have facial hair they are made fun of. Fat women are made to feel worse than fat men.
So where am I going with this? Be sure to treat women as equals not less than equal. Take some time to think about how you have been treating women or other women. Yes some women treat their “sisters” horribly, as if they don’t get enough crap from men, you have to add to the torment.
