March 7, 2012

• International Womens Day

  It’s International Womens Day!!

  

  Today is International Womens Day well in the UK it is anyway, it’s probably already been in other places, but hey doesn’t really change the point.

   

  So since the majority of this wonderful community is women I thought I’d give a few props to the amazing ladies who not only make up Xanga but just the general women of this world who are wonderful, beautiful, loving, kind and able.

   

  Most of the people I know here on Xanga are women, and no that’s not because I delete all the dudes

  And I am proud to know each and everyone of them, they are my friends, they inspire me, they teach me and are a constantly loving and creative group of unique women.

   

  Some pretty unforgivable Sh** has been done to women through out time, but luckily few are as strong, adaptable and capable as women and more and more the rightful balance and equality is gained and accepted.

   

  Though it’s easy to divide the sexes and come up with all sorts of reasons to support the differences the fact is we are all beings and should all have the same rights to exercise our free will. We don’t have to take on the behaviours of one or the other to fit in and we don’t have to come up with all sorts of rules to make the balance work, we just have to accept that in the end each and everyone of us deserves a fair and level playing field from which to act.

   

  But I don’t want this to be a whole thing about equality because it should be obvious and it’s not the one and only thing I want to focus on.

   

  So next I’ll just highlight what I think is so amazing about women and why they are a treasure and a wonder.

  Grace, beauty, subtlety, serenity and many more terms and concepts that are not only admirable but alluring and attractive are more often than not associated and symbolised by women, they are beautiful and fascinating, mysterious and complex. All life begins with them and is made by them, I cannot help but be forever humbled and obsessed by women and the feminine.

   

  A line from the stand up of a guy called Louis CK got me to thinking on the subject of women, the line was “Your mother is the first person you’ll ever love” and that just seems quite wonderful, the emotion of love one of our most powerful and beautiful is born with you, so along with life your mother (every mother) also gives you love.

   

  But again I don’t want this post to seem like I’m just saying all women are basically mothers or only good for child bearing.

  Because of course everyone and most certainly every woman is FAR more complicated than that, so I suppose all that’s left is to say thank you to all the women whoever they are and where ever they are for being yourselves, for being loving and kind, for being strong and fighting for what should have been free to begin with, and well just thank you without you I wouldn’t know what to think about for like at least 90% of my day hehe

  

   Yea there are loads of cool and awesome women I could have picked as pics for this post, but being a nerd I had to pick Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace because shes epicly cool and a really strong female character in the superbly gender balanced Battle Star Galactica (although she is a bit of a tomboy it has to be said)

  And also Tina Fey who is among other things the star of 30 Rock and is clearly a very intellegent and hilariously funny women that I respect the work of Immensely, but it don’t matter who because today (and lets hope everyday) is a day for everyone to remember just how important and brilliant all women are.

   

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