Reflecting through the eras women’s equality has surpassed expectation if we think back to how bad it was in the 1900’s, the first march was in 1908 when 15,000 women marched through New York for shorter hours, better pay and EVEN a right to vote! I think many of today’s younger generation may even feel that the ‘battles have been won’ while many of the bra burning, tampon slaying feminists still feel there is a way to go towards gaining ultimate gender parity.
Women are fighting back, we have the stiletto wearing boss babes walking into boardrooms across the nation and without the need of ‘nipslip’ or a ‘FF cleavage’ in your face they are slowly being recognised for their worth ethic and intelligence, they are being listened to and slowly their voices are being heard, WE ARE standing our own ground in many work places, in sports, and most importantly in society!
Currently in the UK some of the the most powerful heads belong to women, The Queen, Teresa May our Prime Minister, and of course we have Mary Berry …..because the world is a better (slightly fatter) place because of cake!
We do now have females being propelled into space with their ‘Always Ultra’ doubled up for maximum protection whilst fighting aliens on mars, women can work AND have a family (if they can afford the astronomical childcare) but generally women have real choices now. So I say…. be proud and loud and flash your tits in the street for there is a recognisable change in today’s society with how women are judged and how they are perceived. Embrace the positive changes that have happened, celebrate the women that helped women stand together with other women since 1908, however don’t loose sight of the end goal…. Total gender parity!
Its going to be bumpy road ahead with the likes of Donald Trump and Janusz Korwin-Mikke, the EU Parliament member spouting off from the mouth with out a filter or gag-ball attached, his stupidity had me beating my chest like ape, screaming profanities at the television when he said women must earn less than men because they are “weaker, shorter and less intelligent”he later claimed “I never said that the women should earn less, I only said that because they are shorter, they are weaker, they are less intelligent, they are less aggressive and so on and so on they earn less. By the way shorter men earn less than the tall men.” So god help all the male dwarf bankers out there, if our polish friend Jan had his way your in for a pay cut to match your height!
I thought maybe … just, maybe it was a translation thing but he was then asked if women are less intelligent than men, and he said: “Yes of course.”
I literally SPAT at the television and thought its a sad sad day if his thoughts are mirrored by even one other person. The blokes been married three times and has eight children, am I a little presumptuous in thinking his inability to maintain a happy marriage has a lot to do with his derogatory perspective towards women, or maybe he married short girls that couldn’t complete the Polish Weekly Sudoku puzzle?
What with Trump making comments like “You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.” proving yet again his narrow mindness and his values are shallow and superficial!
And that is coming from MEN in POWER in 2017!!
I’m a 5’4″ woman that recognises that we have come a long way, but I can also see that GLOBALLY there is still a long way to go! IWD is an official holiday in many countries including Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China (for women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar (for women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal (for women only), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia. NOW I wont turn my nose up should they want to give us all a bank holiday for it…
Whatever happens and no matter how many Trumps or Janusz there are, there is nothing more empowering than women that empower women. So shake your tits in the face of adversity and raise a pint of wine to every single female out there. Slap on the War-Paint, Equality awaits us…. its not that far away! #BeBoldForChange
Just That Girl Kelly 