Yesterday was international women's day, and I was having a conversation yesterday informing someone of that fact, and then I also mentioned that it was pancake day. My friend commented how superficial these days seemed to be, I agreed and thought of a joke of posing if there was some other ephemeral kind of day to celebrate (world day of apples?), then I thought a little harder. International women's day is 100 years old. Think about how it was for women 100 years ago, think about how much women (and men fighting for their cause) have won in the fight for equality, and then how much more there is to fight. Almost all of my bosses after my time at university have been women, which is an amazing fact. I'm no feminist, but I am interested in the notion of what further issues there are on the frontier of equality for women, and it seems that women have indeed a big fight.
I also admit that I am and have been and probably will be in the future a faux pas perverted and objectifying male pig. That is of course, in my own thoughts and dirty as they are I would like to think that my porno and wanking habit does not affect my relationships professionally and personal with treating women with respect. My mum's a woman, and so is my sister and I love them both. That's probably a weird thing to say after what I mentioned just before. Ugh, I should really change the order of what I want to say. Anyway, what I'm saying I guess is I am a sexualised male and I grew up with sky tv, internet porn, overly arousing MTV music videos and spent my later teens with convent schoolgirls who played innocent because it was sexy. I don't blame the media myself, but I do for how it affects other people at least in terms of influence (I don't want to deny people their sense of freewill or volition).
Why am I saying this? Well, I guess after seeing that video with James Bond dressed as a woman I thought how sexy he was, and also how his sleazy character is engaging in a mea culpa of sorts. I thought I'd admit mine. I was on google reader just earlier and all my blogs were putting out posts on feminism and world women's day, and then just beneath it I have a feed from a glamour model and some nudey stuff about celebrities. I am a hypocrite. I'm also a hypocrite about fitness, my actions are betrayed by my eating patterns.
Ah, that feels really good to say that.
On with my day (fuck, its already 1pm)
We Are Equals
I also admit that I am and have been and probably will be in the future a faux pas perverted and objectifying male pig. That is of course, in my own thoughts and dirty as they are I would like to think that my porno and wanking habit does not affect my relationships professionally and personal with treating women with respect. My mum's a woman, and so is my sister and I love them both. That's probably a weird thing to say after what I mentioned just before. Ugh, I should really change the order of what I want to say. Anyway, what I'm saying I guess is I am a sexualised male and I grew up with sky tv, internet porn, overly arousing MTV music videos and spent my later teens with convent schoolgirls who played innocent because it was sexy. I don't blame the media myself, but I do for how it affects other people at least in terms of influence (I don't want to deny people their sense of freewill or volition).
Why am I saying this? Well, I guess after seeing that video with James Bond dressed as a woman I thought how sexy he was, and also how his sleazy character is engaging in a mea culpa of sorts. I thought I'd admit mine. I was on google reader just earlier and all my blogs were putting out posts on feminism and world women's day, and then just beneath it I have a feed from a glamour model and some nudey stuff about celebrities. I am a hypocrite. I'm also a hypocrite about fitness, my actions are betrayed by my eating patterns.
Ah, that feels really good to say that.
On with my day (fuck, its already 1pm)
We Are Equals
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