JMS123
Chatty Member
Ah nothing shouts self-acceptance and female empowerment quite like a filtered photo in which your chin is a completely different shape.
I don’t believe that female empowerment is about pouty filtered photos for Instagram, nor your sole focus being keeping your house unrealistically clean and tidy. It’s about female equality and making the women of tomorrow feel like they can do anything they like. I read an interesting article on how we’re guilty of commenting on how pretty little girls are, or what they’re wearing rather than something less superficial like what they’re reading or subjects they enjoy at school. So I’ve stopped doing it.
My parents taught me resilience, not to be a pampered princess that relies on everyone else to put in the hard yards. I wanted to prove that I could work in a male-dominated industry, so I went into investment banking where I was one of two women in a department of a hundred men. It was bloody hard at times, and I confess to the odd tear in the ladies’ loo, but I stuck it out.
It doesn’t matter whether you want to be a teacher, a nurse, a politician, a lorry driver or a stay at home mum, female empowerment is about helping women achieve their dreams. It’s not sending them back to the 1930s when you’re solely judged on your appearance and the cleanliness of your house. There’s a whole world out there to explore.
Sorry to rant but the female empowerment posts make me rather angry…!
I don’t believe that female empowerment is about pouty filtered photos for Instagram, nor your sole focus being keeping your house unrealistically clean and tidy. It’s about female equality and making the women of tomorrow feel like they can do anything they like. I read an interesting article on how we’re guilty of commenting on how pretty little girls are, or what they’re wearing rather than something less superficial like what they’re reading or subjects they enjoy at school. So I’ve stopped doing it.
My parents taught me resilience, not to be a pampered princess that relies on everyone else to put in the hard yards. I wanted to prove that I could work in a male-dominated industry, so I went into investment banking where I was one of two women in a department of a hundred men. It was bloody hard at times, and I confess to the odd tear in the ladies’ loo, but I stuck it out.
It doesn’t matter whether you want to be a teacher, a nurse, a politician, a lorry driver or a stay at home mum, female empowerment is about helping women achieve their dreams. It’s not sending them back to the 1930s when you’re solely judged on your appearance and the cleanliness of your house. There’s a whole world out there to explore.
Sorry to rant but the female empowerment posts make me rather angry…!