Category: Let's talk
Okay, now this is a difficult topic I think.
1. what do you (those who know that today is world women day) think of it?
2. A totally different question: I just heard that "world women day" is more or less an "european women day" because it's only in Europe. Does that make sence to you? Personally I think this is just contradictory. You name it "world women day", and lil' Ines, not aware of anything, asking the zoners who were online at that time, what they thought of world-women-day - and then I heard it was only in Europe!!! strange. Lol - so what do you all think?
Girls: Do you see this as something serious? Or do you tell your BF what to do every day no matter what day it is (or vice versa)?
Guys: Do you care if it's world-women-day?
ummmm, about as much as I care who wins the cup. hehehe
.. What is 3 miles long and smells like a fish market?
.. The women pride parade!
<grin>
(Icelandic joke, the parade is June 19th for those who want to go)
Where is the international men day? I think we should have one as well.
It's not about men vs women, whites vs blacks etc .. I think a lot of those awareness days just work to divide us if anything. Treat people like people, like you want them to treat you, respect and love them and we'll be just fine and, yeah, of course things don't work like that in the real world but we could get there, start by following those rules yourself, if we all did it, after all, it would work. ;)
cheers
-B
I think the point of World Women's day isn't to pamper the women, like Mother's day or Father's day, but to raise women's issues, which, lets face it, is still a really important cause in most of the world. Not so much in my bit of it, and possibly not in yours either, but equality of the sexes doesn't stop being important because they got it more or less right in the US and the UK. Just my thoughts.
Well, let me rephrase <grin> so not as to offend our many talented and pretty women on here, which certainly isn't my intention.
What baffles me is that I thought June 19th was the day for women rights or something and now all of a sudden there's another day that is "women day" etc. If we have too many days that all serve a theoretically similar purpose they totally lose their meaning except to the very few, keep it one day a year and keep it consistent. And, yes, as long as we focus on the situation in countries where there are the biggest problems I totally support it. My pointis mainly that , to me, I try not to think of people as falling into categories, each person I know has attributes unique to that person and I never think of them as representing a certain group or type of people, hobbies or cultures, they are mainly attributes that make the person interesting.
And I think too many minority awreness days do the opposite, like I said above, if every day is supposedly a big day for one minority group or another I totally stop taking notice.
Cheers
-B
I agree, we just get desensitised by all the national and international awareness days. Have you seen some of those lists, of American national days? They're some of the funniest, silliest things! It seems strange, for there to be two women's awareness days. Maybe one is a national, and one an international day? And I guess my point was, that however much you don't perceive a minority group in terms of that group, which is wonderful by the way, that doesn't mean the group doesn't have valid concerns. There's stacks of people who aren't homophobic, but that doesn't mean Gay rights don't have a long way to go. Same with racial groups etc. I guess, that as long as the awareness campaigns mean something to someone, or do some good somewhere, they're worth having. And hey, maybe people just like parades!