Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
I read this forward today and it disturbed me a great deal. It was about women and how special they are. Read on-
Why Women Cry-
A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?""Because I'm a woman," she told him."I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said,"And you never will."Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?""All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on thephone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"God said:"When I made the woman she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weightof the world,yet gentle enough to give comfort.I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth andthe rejection that many times comes from her children. I gave her a hardnessthat allows her to keep going when everyone else givesup, andtake care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining. I gave her the sensitivity to love her children underany and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her verybadly.I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband neverhurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusivelyto use whenever it is needed.""You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes,because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."
Please send this to five beautiful women you know today.If you do, something good will happen - You will boost anotherwoman's self-esteem!You can also send this to men who would really like to know the value of a woman and why she is so different from others.
Wait a minute. What the fuck!
I was so confounded after the first ten lines that I thought it had to be a joke and there must be something extremely funny at the end. But no such luck. Did I miss something?? Do people actually find such sexist nonsense uplifting- I want to laugh in everyone’s face who was filled with a warm fuzzy feeling after reading it. If you are one of them don’t ever bother to read my blog again.
Ya, ok. So I have never been this rude, but seriously who comes up with stuff like this. It’s down right offensive- women are special because they cry-
Ok-men don’t cry? And it’s women's lot to be miserable so lets celebrate that! Woohoo!!
Another one-Women are made up of contraries- they have to be strong while being gentle, patient while being ill treated by their children, and if their husbands beat em up, they are just testing them. for what??huh!?
and ofcourse what sort of mysoginistic discourse would be complete without a bit of theological reasoning thrown in- eve was born out of adam’s rib- his daughter. Well I think it’s incestuous and makes my stomach turn.
Did anyone notice that it’s a boy asking the questions- I bet this was written by a guy.
What this sort of reasoning does is create an image of the ideal woman- one who doesn’t complain, is pliant, slaves away, is a sensitive punching bag, and how she bears it all is through sense less crying.
Such discourses are a huge problem intoday’s world. Women are economically independent and have their own careers. They are no longer ‘ the angel in the house’. so what has happened is this celebration of a superwoman, who is seen as a cross between a kick ass professional and the perfect home maker. I think such ideas have only enslaved women more as they are constantly living upto this ideal and thus get entrapped into them. lots of people would like to propogate ideas about how women have super human strength to manage everything. Ofcourse this isn’t true.
WOMEN ARE NOT SPECIAL. Don’t put us on a pedestal that we all break our backs trying to reach.
This celebration of a woman’s capabilities is not liberating, it’s just extremely patriarchal discourse, candy flossed.
What really grinds my gears is the fact that a girl sent me this and she is doing a course in gender studies. I am so irritated by the fact that stuff like this dupes intelligent women.
Smartenup people and get rid of these stereotypes which not only hamper the development of the female psyche but the male mind as well.
Arent boys constantly trying to live up to this idea of machismo where they cant cry.
'metrosexual'- umm-that concept is kind of beyond my grasp so shall not delve into it.
But all i know is Men and Women all have the same weaknesses and failings, and same strengths, they just vary from individual to individual, and gender has got nothing to do with it.
Why Women Cry-
A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?""Because I'm a woman," she told him."I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said,"And you never will."Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?""All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on thephone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"God said:"When I made the woman she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weightof the world,yet gentle enough to give comfort.I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth andthe rejection that many times comes from her children. I gave her a hardnessthat allows her to keep going when everyone else givesup, andtake care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining. I gave her the sensitivity to love her children underany and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her verybadly.I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband neverhurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusivelyto use whenever it is needed.""You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes,because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."
Please send this to five beautiful women you know today.If you do, something good will happen - You will boost anotherwoman's self-esteem!You can also send this to men who would really like to know the value of a woman and why she is so different from others.
Wait a minute. What the fuck!
I was so confounded after the first ten lines that I thought it had to be a joke and there must be something extremely funny at the end. But no such luck. Did I miss something?? Do people actually find such sexist nonsense uplifting- I want to laugh in everyone’s face who was filled with a warm fuzzy feeling after reading it. If you are one of them don’t ever bother to read my blog again.
Ya, ok. So I have never been this rude, but seriously who comes up with stuff like this. It’s down right offensive- women are special because they cry-
Ok-men don’t cry? And it’s women's lot to be miserable so lets celebrate that! Woohoo!!
Another one-Women are made up of contraries- they have to be strong while being gentle, patient while being ill treated by their children, and if their husbands beat em up, they are just testing them. for what??huh!?
and ofcourse what sort of mysoginistic discourse would be complete without a bit of theological reasoning thrown in- eve was born out of adam’s rib- his daughter. Well I think it’s incestuous and makes my stomach turn.
Did anyone notice that it’s a boy asking the questions- I bet this was written by a guy.
What this sort of reasoning does is create an image of the ideal woman- one who doesn’t complain, is pliant, slaves away, is a sensitive punching bag, and how she bears it all is through sense less crying.
Such discourses are a huge problem intoday’s world. Women are economically independent and have their own careers. They are no longer ‘ the angel in the house’. so what has happened is this celebration of a superwoman, who is seen as a cross between a kick ass professional and the perfect home maker. I think such ideas have only enslaved women more as they are constantly living upto this ideal and thus get entrapped into them. lots of people would like to propogate ideas about how women have super human strength to manage everything. Ofcourse this isn’t true.
WOMEN ARE NOT SPECIAL. Don’t put us on a pedestal that we all break our backs trying to reach.
This celebration of a woman’s capabilities is not liberating, it’s just extremely patriarchal discourse, candy flossed.
What really grinds my gears is the fact that a girl sent me this and she is doing a course in gender studies. I am so irritated by the fact that stuff like this dupes intelligent women.
Smartenup people and get rid of these stereotypes which not only hamper the development of the female psyche but the male mind as well.
Arent boys constantly trying to live up to this idea of machismo where they cant cry.
'metrosexual'- umm-that concept is kind of beyond my grasp so shall not delve into it.
But all i know is Men and Women all have the same weaknesses and failings, and same strengths, they just vary from individual to individual, and gender has got nothing to do with it.
posted by ugly duckling at 9:54 PM
4 Comments:
Thank god I wasn't the only one who cringed on reading that forward! The part that really got to me was about woman being created from man's rib, to protect his heart. Euuuchh! I don't think women are not special, but not more so than men-I mean, why generalize? And yes, I have always maintained that patriarchy and its discourse are as limiting for men as for women-they, too, are victims of what it means to be masculine.
However, I have one question for confounded cabbott-why do you think gender studies and the like are "frilly courses"?
P.S-If 'metrosexual' implies the clean-shaven look for men, does it by the same token imply the hirsute, unwaxed look for women? Because I can tell you from experience, exams help get that look too. Lol.
Cabbott-your definition of metrosexual is inherently flawed, as far as I'm concerned :) Just goes to show that you, too, are a victim of patriarchy and what it prescribes as necessary to be "masculine". I rest my case. Lol.
P.S-Who DO you think I am, and why do you hope I'm not who you think I am? (This should be fun).
Which one of the famous dudettes of my brilliant LSR batch r u,woman??
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