Simple girl

I like to think that I'm a simple girl, but I'm not. No girl is. Like most single women, I try to fill my life with as many superficial gems as possible... hoping one day to have a reason not to. Because this girl's not waiting around with her fishing line dipped in a fishless ocean... this girl's gonna shop, eat, drink, laugh, cry and date the hell out of the city. And I'll share it all with you.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

I'm a femenist

I wear makeup. I like getting a weekly mani/pedi. Though I've never attended a rally, I'm a feminist. My stay-at-home mum brought me up that way.

I love this PSA on women's issues. It clarifies, so simply, the on-going struggle of achieving male-female equality:



Even though we have made giant leaps forward for women's rights, we're still not equal with men on a global level.

I am lucky that I live in a country that gives women comparable rights to men. I've had equal access to education. I can vote. And if I rode a horse, I could sit astride. But how many of us remember a female student getting the school dux or a high OP? And how many of us now work for a female CEO, CFO, Director or Manager? What happened to all those studious, smart and ambitious girls? Life choices, career advancements... they seem to be a little harder on the fairer sex.

I am also aware that, at least on a social level, I am often judged simply becuase I'm female. And not just by men. Regrettably, I find that I judge woman, too. Maybe that's just human nature. I will try hard to change mine... and I pray (for the sake of our future daughters) others will too...

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