needlesandpins -> RE: Rewarding women for faking it (6/21/2016 7:23:12 AM)
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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins The problem about the way most women are is that they are like that FOR MEN in the first place. If they felt comfortable in their own skin not having to try to live up to some media expectation shoved down their throats before they hit puberty then maybe they would be more natural. needles I would comment on the first remark there by saying that from my observation women are for more hyper-critical of other women in how they present themselves in public. As to the second remark quoted, oh boy ... I loved taking the nieces to the store but the worst thing was the grocery store check-out line. What unbelievable crap in those magazines! That and all the candy bars. The magazines were full of crap about Hollywood stars, etc. but also complete garbage like "How to look like a bikini model 6 weeks after the baby! [is born]. All these 'tips' on make-up, hair, etc. Looking at a three yr. old and the eight yr. old's eyes locking in on those mag covers (and we know how kids eyes look when locked in) ... disturbed me greatly. I don't remember exactly what (good improvisors never remember those details) but I did everything possible to divert their attention from that crap. Ugh! What mind poison those things are. I'm a horse person by nature, therefore every man that has entered my life has been told right from the start that it goes like this; I get up early to feed animals, I clean out animals and their needs come first. If you want someone that looks like a Barbie doll, and cleans house all day then I suggest you either pick one that has no animals, or you stay home with mummy. I don't, and never will present myself to compete with other women, and here's why; I don't care about them. I'm not in competition with them, and I don't want what they have, nor what they want. I used to walk my son to school and stand their with the other mums listening to how they'd been up since stupid o'clock to get in the shower, hair and make-up done, kids sorted, and husband off to work. I'd have been up since 6-30/7am, fed and mucked out the horses, dogs, hens, cats, seen to kids, possibly put washing on the line, told ex to get out of bed, walked son a mile up to school with dogs, and would be stood there not remembering if I'd even brushed my hair yet, but with the possibility that it had hay and straw in it. I was appalled at the 'clothes' that some of the girls were allowed to wear to a party when my son was 10. They looked like mini hookers. My neighbour's daughters on one side are the same. They look like common little tarts. It's media lead in a sense, but parents are also as much to blame in part. However, if it wasn't for their drive to impress the boys, and their mothers want for them to do it, then the media would have no sway. needles
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