Posts Tagged ‘emancipation’
Career women
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The women struggled for a few centuries to become the men’s equal and now they don’t know how to get rid off this terrible privilege.
We work like crazy and we thank the boss for giving us the extraordinary opportunity to work on week-ends so we can succeed and keep the deadline. The bosses get away from Friday noon and you won’t see them again since Monday afternoon when they get over their five-star hang over. Meanwhile you have the honor to stand in for them because that’s why you earned the spot and get yourself a nice ulcer eating take away junk food at work, to become a trustworthy woman. The company repaid you with two extra diopter but myopia is the sign of your triumph. At night you dream in color about Acrobat Reader, Outlook and Power Point, your nightmare is completed by crazy dancing clusters of yellow folders labeled “Urgent”, “Campaign”, “Charts”, “Reports”. But in your dream the Delete button doesn’t work, you can’t get away from the evil docs and wake up screaming. And not because the cluster folders drive you mad but because is already 7.30 am, you had another bad night and your hair looks like a lime brush. Read the rest of this entry »
Girls of our past, women of today…
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At my 29 years old, I finally discovered the marvel of on-line social networking. In the process I had the pleasure to stumble upon old friends with new attitudes. I haven’t seen some of them even for ten years. Some changed for the better and some for the worse. I felt happy for some and sorry for others.
After only two days of Facebook, a similar situation of two of my friends, draw my attention. I noticed that both shared a common suffering – the failure of their personal life. The intimate disaster those two young women are going through manifests in anxiety, discontent and emotional self-mutilation, symptoms I saw in other women of our days.
My two good friends do not know each other, but they share in common a lot of things. Both of them are in their late twenties, they are highly educated, both work for important multinational companies, they earn very well, both traveled the world and interacted with educated and interesting people, both of them are very good professionals in what they do.
Besides all that, both of them are beautiful. Each one of them has its own personal charm that could easily veil you and make you dizzy till the point you could whisper “I love you!” Read the rest of this entry »
