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March 8th, 2008 by arvind
Today, 8th March is International Women’s Day.
This day celebrates women and thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate their achievements.
While there are many large-scale celebrations, there are also numerous rich and diverse local activities connecting women from all around the world ranging from political rallies, business conferences, government activities and networking events through to local women’s craft markets, theatrical performances, fashion parades and more.
Women have come a long way in the last 100 years and yet there is so much more to be done with repression and exploitation all over the world.
Do you think women have equal rights and opportunities in your part of the world?
And what achievements as a woman would you like to celebrate today?
Happy Lady’s Day! is wonderful to be a WOMAN… Girl Power
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Really, is anyone bothered?
Oh yeah, sorry, nearly forgot……… GIRL POWER!!!!!
Doh………!
Jim here,
‘Em get the kettle on love’
Sorry folks you weren’t meant to see that!
Happy National light-dusting day to all.
Oh Jimothy, that’s just plain sexist, what a terribly insensitive thing to say, dusting is a complicated task that requires objects to be moved and sometimes polish to be applied.
Does Em, bring you cookies with your tea? If she doesn’t don’t let her get away with it, even if you don’t want them, give ‘em an inch, you know the script……….
Cookies, oh yes - lotsa cookies and Milk!
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring me da milk!
‘biscuits’
they are called biscuits
No no no, surely you must know that all expatriate UK people quickly adopt Americanisms once out of the home country.
Cookies
Vacations
Mom & Pop
Gas station
Need I go on…….
It’s woman day, hmmm… I must dash out and buy myself a set of skimpy underthings that merely pretend to do the job of covering my unmentionables and while I’m at it I’ll buy myself a barely there pink ‘Princess’ tee shirt that sets back the women’s rights movement a good 30 years, and also while I’m at it a pair of sweat pants with some sort of cute word emblazoned cutely across the backside. Since you know a guy is gonna’ look there anyway, I might as well be advertising something with my bum.
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Thank god someone of the female sex knows how to behave
That was meant as sarcasm when I wrote it earlier…
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That’s very disappointing
In the past this day was used to protest equal pay and equal rights for women…. Globally today a women doing the exact same job trade or professional still get paid on average 16% less than a man and do twice the work…..
We still have women being treated as property, and second class…. Until women are valued for the contribution we make to the human race as a species to society as a whole and to the economy in general we will never have equal rights, equal pay or equal standing….
Women out number men globally current population has it at 52% female to 48% male…. however the majority of decision made for us is done by men….. isnt time we took charge of our wellbeing and teach the next generation of girls and boys that it really doent matter what gender you are when it comes to your worth as a person…..
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GODDESS THAT IS WOMAN HOOD
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52/48? Bizarre isn’t it. No wonder the Indians keep on aborting female foetuses.
Its more that Females are not valued as being able to contribute. Also they dont have to pay Douries for boys… so they are cheaper…
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Hmmm… How about we all pause for a second in our delusions of grandeur and misplaced sense of superiority and for once have the humility to listen first to what the people themselves have to say about their customs and practices before passing judgment…?
While you all ponder over this (or not..), I take my leave from you for a bit. I’m off to enjoy a shisha with my Arab mates tonight, catch a movie with my Hindu pals tomorrow and go clubbing with some Christian buddies over the week-end..
Watch Bridget GO! Celebrate our differences…
Isn’t that the chinese? Because of the law that only allows one kid per couple?
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Well FG, it’s both countries isn’t it. What’s genuinely frightening is that these two nations of halfwits are predicted to be the superpowers that will dominate world in the not too distant future. How scary is that?
Two nations of halfwits.. Oh how very .. enlightening to FINALLY get a true insight of a Pisces’ mind… More more more please! GO! Nemo!
lolololol
Indias more because of the dowry payments made by the bride at the time of her marriage.. it is illegal but still goes on in rural communities…
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About as scary as a society who breeds this sort of individual trying to take the lead really fish fella.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=H-6SwE-jF10&feature=related
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Makes you proud eh?
I don’t get what you are trying to say Gareth.
Have you ever tried rapping in a Yorkshire accent? It’s not as easy as these guys make it look you know.
IIIIIIEEEEEETTTTT!!!
Intl W’s day? What Intl W’s day? That’s the kinda nonsense that helps perpetuate the myth that woman is an “inferior” breed. Like hell we are! I say, stand proud every single day of the year girls and take no nonsense from anyone ha!
Hmmm, what I think we actually need is a Intl MAN’s Day where us ladies get to see the lads parade in neckties and basically strut their stuff for our entertainment ha!
Wot ya girls say to this, shall we declare a Man’s Day at Flowers? 
Hey BJ welcome back - your name isn’t showing in blue at the moment (i.e linking back to your site)
Just thought you should know - have you changed the email address or link?
Jem.
Hmmm but then the guys would turn into a Look at Us ladies see how wonderful we are… arent you lucky you have us to look after you… I know its bollocks, perhaps we could could make them change their surnames when we decide to marry them and let them, raise the kids whilst we give them the occassional punch in face, pay them 20% less than us, not them go anywhere unless they in the company of a related Female…. stone them for being raped and treat them like dirt for having fathering a baby when not married… in a divorce they can have the kids and be us women can go and party…. we could all go to the pub and brag about the guy we got last night and then tell all what a tramp he is… etc… The thing is us women would never stoop so low….
Oh Chook its great to see you… hopefully not so busy….
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Dammit AC, was getting excited for a minute, but then you chickened out at the last minute!
Nah didnt chicken out.. just holding a few cards… go on get me going I am in the mood cant anyone tell…. :lol:
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And once we’re through, how about we blame it on religion to justify our actions eh? We should easily get away with that n’est-ce-pas?
Hmmm.. let’s see.. shall we blame it on Christianity? .. Nah, it won’t fly, people have forgotten the wars and violence for the establishment of the Church by now… Hinduism?.. Nah.. not strong enough methinks to shoulder the weight of our abuse… Hey I know! Islam! Yesss! Perfect scapegoat! We just have to say it’s condoned by Islam, no one will bother to find out if we’re saying the truth or not, actually methinks everyone will be happy to believe us! Islamophobia rules supreme nowadays n’est-ce-pas?
It’s good too to see you alive and kicking as ever Chook… Yep, very busy at my end these days, will stop by whenever I get a chance.. How’s the cheese board going?
One of our most popular and vibrant threads here at flowers….
More of the same please chooks! Blog idols a coming!
By Jingoes Chook I think you could be on to something, but arent you worried about hvaing your car torched by a bunch of extremist Christians running around you place… The Buddhists might be better they were orange robs and we could see them coming and I havent seen any female Monks recently have you…..
Its repression by the Buddhist monks of Tibet thats why the chinese dont like him….
And those monks are so Quiet we could blame anything and there would be no one to argue…. hehehehehehehe….
What do you reckon Chook….
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I think that the moon and tides are interacting at the moment
Thanks Jem, it’s nice to be back and see you guys buzzing as ever.
No, haven’t changed links. Bridget is done diarising for now. She got bored! Sometimes she’s like that, she starts things on impulse then gets bored fast ha!
Hope all is well with you guys.
All is cooooooool and the gang,
Take a deep breath and get ready for blog idol where we’ll need you all to dig deep and help us choose the final 3 founders here at flowers!
Should be fun….
Hi Jim&Em,
Glad to see that we are kindred spirits in supporting women in their fight for their rights. Stopping violence against women was my theme last year, and the same is true in 2008. It is a great problem and I hope your friends and readers will all rally round.
Thank you for standing up.
Blessings. May you two forever bloom together.
Philip PJA64X
Good to connect with you on here Phillip - and great that you are taking such a stand for womanhood on your blog.
By the way, like you my roots are in Warwickshire - did my schooling in Coventry
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Hi Arvind,
Em here - didn’t know you were in Cov. I was in and around there for five years at Uni and working afterwards!
Get a grip Em - have you only just started reading this blog! There was a big clue months back, when Arvind did a post on his old school going up in flames.
The things some people do to get an interesting post!
Angry - please keep THAT quiet!
The school is being re-built right now… I got some great photos though
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Emma - I grew up in the Stoke area in Coventry - and my mother now lives on Binley Road.
Small world indeed - our paths have probably crossed in one of the bars in Coventry.
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Thank you Arvind. Good to meet you too. Womanhood needs admirers and supporters, and I am delighted to see that we are of one mind.
Although I live in Warwickshire, I come from Rawalpindi. We came here in 1964 when I was 15.
Namaste!
Philip
I agree Phil
after all without women porn would be horrific, tea wouldn’t be served and ironing would not be done.
And you would never have been born… :lol:
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Namaste, Phillip.
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Hi Philip - great to see you here at flowers,
Full credit to this post to flowers founder Arvind!
Thank you for the welcome. I will reply to Arvind too.
Philip
Do the ladies really need a day dedicated to them, just like so many other days? Or are they just clever marketing ploys by the greeting cards & gifts companies? I mean no offence to the ladies, we men are not complete without them & vice versa
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Ying and Yang AND us blokes are ALWAYS right, right Guy!
I never said we men or “blokes” as you said are always right
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True Dubai guy.
Give them a slap and stop them from getting educated and speaking to any other male. It says it in the holy book after all.
GO! Islam
Violence against women is cowardice, and not something to be proud of. Stop confucing culture with religion mate, most of negative stuff you see muslim people doing, it really has nothing to do with Islam. Blame the people, not the religion
I don’t think any other explanation can best define the relationship between a man & his wife than this Quranic verse, which incidently led to the embracing of Islam of British economist and teacher, Kieren Ashorth. You can read the full article here if you want http://www.youngmuslims.ca/ymfn/archive_display.asp?ID=46
“They are your Garments, and you are their Garments” (Chapter 2: Verse 187)
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Dubai Guy
If Kieren Ashorth decides that Islam is not for her and wants top return to Christianity - what’s the potential consequences?
So your holy book doesn’t say it is acceptable for a man to slap his missus about?
Aaah come on Urban! REPETITION!! You are out!
We’ve had exactly these comments too often and argued successfully against them. Or is that deliberate word play “your holy book doesn’t say”?
Whatever
but david if you’ve read the excerpts from the text below taken from the koran you’ll see its acceptable to beat women- yet according to dg hitting women is cowardice. therefore the koran promotes cowardice. its not that tough really is it?
You win urban pagan, no use arguing with you. Yes we muslims are wife beaters, brainwashed people, uncivilized, etc etc etc. We don’t deserve to be alive, the best remedy would be to kill all of us. Happy now?
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I don’t want anyone dead I just want an honest debate about what the book says. and it advocates beating women. correct? thats all.
Me confused Gary. What’s your point?
If Islam advocates it and when muslims do it, it’s criticised.
If Islam doesn’t advocate it and when muslims do it, it’s criticised.
If Islam advocates it and when muslims don’t do it, it’s STILL criticised??
Welcome back David S.
I forgot nobody can speak out against islam can they?
A breather in between meetings and I stop by my fave Flowers post…
TOTALLY up to Bridget’s expectations ha!
Thanks Gary, this is getting seriously entertaining mate! 
More more more please! GO! Gary! 
Em here.
Hmmm I can see your point Dubai Guy - do we need a day just for us? We want equality and all of that and yet we have a day just for us.
Yippeeeee and so we should. Because that’s what it is all about. All this rubbish that women are equal - we are not and sadly will not be for a long time yet (dare I say it) we are (in my opinion) by far more capable at so many more things than men yet we don’t jump up and down and tell the world what we have done. Perhaps we should.
What am I talking about?
Simple eg is the house. A woman will put on a few washes, clean the bathroom, do a general tidy up because that is what is needed. If the man of the house takes the rubbish out without being asked to we know about it for the next week. And if, heaven forbid he should put a wash on (and put the lights and darks all in together) then there is no hearing the end of it! We do things because they need doing. In my general experience men do things around the house for ‘brownie points’ or acknowledgment.
If all the women went on strike for a week, we would be appreciated and valued not only for who we are but also all the unspoken things we do. Unfortunately there would be chaos to sort our when we came back!!! Then we would have a whole International Woman’s week declared in recognition of what we do!
Hi Em
Great Point you make ….
I went on strike at home for three week…. hubby and boys not happy but it went like this…
Week one told hubby he could cook needed a break … so we have hot chips (take away) Pizza, and 2 minute noodles for a week…
Week two kids asked where I had put there clean school clothes told them didnt wash them, hubby couldnt find clean spoon or plate in the cupboard, i hadnt washed up and no one else noticed the pile in the sink until they went looking for something, the toys werent pick up nothing was put away no sweeping no vacuum nothing….
Week three went through week two again and by the end they gave up and the boys did their washing, and argued about the dishes… then told me how wonderful they were because they did it with out being told…. I just thats great because I am not doing it….
eventually I did because I really couldnt handle it anymore.. but they all picked their stuff up …..
When Hubby says I am nagging and I do … i tell him its his own fault… If he done what was asked when I asked 4 days ago I wouldnt have to keep asking him to do it… Would I….?
If only women realised jsut how strong we are and how very capable of doing and coping the men wouldnt know what hit them….
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lol! Well said AC!
I take my hat off to you for lasting three weeks! I always threaten this with Jim, but if there is no food in the fridge he orders pizza, which I love, but my diet doesn’t! I only last about two days!
In a way we are our own worst enemy as we take on more and more as we know that we can do it all!
WWII and England was practically kept afloat by women - in the factories and the fields because the men were fighting (and what a great job they did!). But come the end of the war what happened? Men designed the fashions so that women would go back to being women - long, tight skirts which meant you had to be feminine! I think that was very telling - they were so afraid they wouldn’t get the jobs back and have to run the houses!
I wonder where we would be today if women had stayed doing the jobs they did in the war and the men fitted around us?
Hmmmmm . . . .
But it wouldn’t happen
a lot of the work was manual work and a man is far better physically able to do that.
Plus a lot of the work women did in the war was for the war. Once it was over they could go back to keeping the home while the man did the important stuff. No shame in that.
We had a glimps of what might happen in Britain when Thatcher was in power. Erm no thanks.
Margaret Thatcher was not a woman…. of that there is no doubt….
Womens contribution here in Oz ws to keep the farms running, keep the steel works send steel, milling, food, retail, manufacturing, then there were those women who served in the war as nurses, drivers etc…
When the men returned from serving it was left to women to go to nurse their men back to health, disabilities, post traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, nightmares, they also continued to run the household and many still held down jobs, there was also that huge number of women whose men did not return… and they still kept it together and raised their families and helped there friends…. women did do as much as the men and more after the war it was women left to pick up the peices left be it…. I will also point out that Wars are caused by Men and fought by Men and women are left to clean up after them once again….
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Thank god we in Britain had Margaret Thatcher.
She saved the nation from massive economic decline, rescued us from the reputation we DID have of being “the sick man of Europe”, killed our rampant inflation and lay the foundation for the massive economic boom the country has enjoyed ever since.
Even the rival ‘New’ Labour govt which has been in power since John Major’s somewhat nondescript tenure post Thatch was very quick to acknowledge the debt Britain owes to Margaret Thatcher, first by Uncle Tony and then his left wing in right wing clothes successor, Gordon Trustworthy.
Why only last week did Gordon One Rule For The Scots And Another For The Rest Of The UK, heap praise on Margaret Thatcher (as did MPs of all parties) following her admissiom to hospital.
Margaret Thatcher is one of (and a serious contender for THE) greatest Brit ever to have lived. Thank God she was there when she was.