Tagged With: freedom
Women covering thier faces
While watching bbc question time and the debate about women wearing veils, and hearing the two sides arguing whether it is about choice or forcing women to hide, I wonder how those sides would change if it was a debate about women feeling the need to wear make-up when they go out. Is it really right to consider legislating about one form of face covering but not another? #equality should mean having the right to be different, not the obligation to all be the same. If a woman does or doesn’t want to go out au natural isn’t that her choice? Regardless of whether that is a head covering or makeup?
Somethings have to be said even if nobody is listening
- Some truths need to be said outloud even if to an empty room.
- Some truths need to be said because nobody else wants to say them.
- Some truths need to be said so we hear them ourselves.
Feminism
Feminism was always about self respect, and about people knowing they could be themselves and be equal without having to be the same.
By this very definition it can mean very different things to other people without loosing its truth.
Remembrance Sunday
This morning I walked down to the local Polish War Memorial on the A40 West London. There was a there was a small crowd of maybe 20 people, some local community police officers and two local councillors who lay wreaths and read a short dedication.
Afterwards I spent some time reading the names of the fallen on the wall behind the Memorial, as I did so, I thought about why the Memorial was there and why I had come. I am not Polish, I did not serve in the war, though my father did. I do not believe the Polish fought for just Polish or that the English fought for just the English. I believe they thought as we should for each other. I laid my poppy at the foot of Memorial and went home quietly grateful to all who fought so that I might be free. I hope to do the same next year.
