International Women's Day
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Comment from andradgault
Very interesting. It could of used more. Too short of a segway between your experience, women in America, and women around the world. Some more detail on your life to help understand.
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reply by the author on 30-Oct-2012
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Very interesting. It could of used more. Too short of a segway between your experience, women in America, and women around the world. Some more detail on your life to help understand.
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Comment Written 29-Oct-2012
reply by the author on 30-Oct-2012
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Try reading the nine pt. essay entitled Journey to Retirement. I covered forty years of fighting as a feminist. Perhaps 10,000words.
Comment from Magyar Rose
Every word counts, great cadence and rhythm; Liked the way the narrative interwove personal with universal, the non confrontational but passionate tone carried the reader through the article confidently.
These themes - women self actualizing, baby boomers not as independent as their baggage might allow, what younger women take for granted, how they often buy into the chauvinist myths, like the Stockholm syndrome, women being abused and suffering - need voices like these...excellent treatment of subject and style.
reply by the author on 02-Apr-2012
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Every word counts, great cadence and rhythm; Liked the way the narrative interwove personal with universal, the non confrontational but passionate tone carried the reader through the article confidently.
These themes - women self actualizing, baby boomers not as independent as their baggage might allow, what younger women take for granted, how they often buy into the chauvinist myths, like the Stockholm syndrome, women being abused and suffering - need voices like these...excellent treatment of subject and style.
Comment Written 02-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 02-Apr-2012
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You are trolling in my portfolio...
It's a great compliment.
When blanked out by obscurity we can all write and present our lives truthfully.
I'm not on this site to spin stories of deception.
Pehaps 6 screens back there is a story called "Michael's Life Decision" That one is gut wrenching truth, not even a skill testing question. ingrid
Comment from Anisa-
Now this deserves a seven-star! Wow, this was such a good read. My generation can't thank the older generation of women enough for what they did. And as you said, there is still some work that needs to be done, but we didn't experience the same inequalities as most older women.
Thank you for sharing this. It was interesting, educational, inspirational and a pleasure to read.
I think there is another huge change coming with all of this social media. I was just watching a video on Kony 2012 and saw how much power the people can have in supporting one another. I think those woman that you mentioned at the end, who are still being treated unfairly and being murdered, etc will see their time soon. We all just need to band together and make it know and fight for a change for them.
Once again, thanks for sharing this. Fantastic writing and story.
Anisa
reply by the author on 09-Mar-2012
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Now this deserves a seven-star! Wow, this was such a good read. My generation can't thank the older generation of women enough for what they did. And as you said, there is still some work that needs to be done, but we didn't experience the same inequalities as most older women.
Thank you for sharing this. It was interesting, educational, inspirational and a pleasure to read.
I think there is another huge change coming with all of this social media. I was just watching a video on Kony 2012 and saw how much power the people can have in supporting one another. I think those woman that you mentioned at the end, who are still being treated unfairly and being murdered, etc will see their time soon. We all just need to band together and make it know and fight for a change for them.
Once again, thanks for sharing this. Fantastic writing and story.
Anisa
Comment Written 09-Mar-2012
reply by the author on 09-Mar-2012
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I'm most appreciative for all the stars as well as giving me the kind of feed back that is so very encouraging that the fight was worth the cost. Yes, social media may indeed be the voice hears around the world.
Comment from G.B. Smith
Hello Ingrid
I rarely give out that elusive sixth star, but this is important to me and all men around the world. women are favored by God, why else would he bring us Eve, the mother of all living and Mary the Mother of Jesus. This is a wonderful reminder that the spiritual and emotional needs of women are higher than we men.
You are life givers and a woman of virtue is highly regarded by God. Have a wonderful Day
Bear
reply by the author on 08-Mar-2012
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Hello Ingrid
I rarely give out that elusive sixth star, but this is important to me and all men around the world. women are favored by God, why else would he bring us Eve, the mother of all living and Mary the Mother of Jesus. This is a wonderful reminder that the spiritual and emotional needs of women are higher than we men.
You are life givers and a woman of virtue is highly regarded by God. Have a wonderful Day
Bear
Comment Written 08-Mar-2012
reply by the author on 08-Mar-2012
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Glen. I hardly ever disagree with PROPHETS who honour me with accolades, but this too is important to me. The world has gone tragically crazy, missing the point that we are to honour, love and respect humanity. I certainly don't need to feel superior in order to feel grace, nor should you. Happy Women's Day...belated.
Comment from KiwiGal
Beautifully and succinctly written as usual, Ingrid, and not a wasted word.
We're the same age, but what a difference a country makes. And a religion too - which accounts for and is responsible for the greatest suppression of women throughout the world.
I suppose it was because NZ was so young and we made our own rules (first to give women the vote in 1893), but I was too busy living 'outdoors' .. no TV in those days and a very healthy country/seaside lifestyle, to notice any discrimination. We did follow along the accepted British rules of behaviour, but only until it didn't work any more for us.
I had access to the Pill, but didn't want to have a reason to use it for a long time.
The only thing I can remember is that Public Bars in the pubs were, ironically, Men Only, and the Lounge Bar was the place for women. We just sort of went along with it (who wanted to be around disgusting, smelly drunks anyway as pubs closed at 6pm in those days).. until a bunch of feminist university women crashed one bar, and smashed the tradition.
Oh - I was turned down for a job as Stock Agent (going round farms assessing sheep and cattle for sale or abbatoir) because I was a woman, and that changed the course of my life.
Apart from that, I did what I wanted, said what I wanted and behaved how I wanted, as did other friends. Sometimes a lack of culture and tradition can speed up (inevitable) natural transitions. We were all the same, with some anatomical differences. My surfboard looked the same as my brother's, and later on those anatomical differences helped me get my car fixed for free, so I didn't bother learning the mechanics.
My mother suffered, however; no State support for a woman on her own with kids if she left the marriage.
And despite today's 'equality' route, I think women are starting to suffer again. The pendulum hasn't found its happy medium yet - or the hunter/gatherer instinct has not yet been bred out of men and they don't know what to do with their testosterone any more. A space worth watching...
Heidi
reply by the author on 08-Mar-2012
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Beautifully and succinctly written as usual, Ingrid, and not a wasted word.
We're the same age, but what a difference a country makes. And a religion too - which accounts for and is responsible for the greatest suppression of women throughout the world.
I suppose it was because NZ was so young and we made our own rules (first to give women the vote in 1893), but I was too busy living 'outdoors' .. no TV in those days and a very healthy country/seaside lifestyle, to notice any discrimination. We did follow along the accepted British rules of behaviour, but only until it didn't work any more for us.
I had access to the Pill, but didn't want to have a reason to use it for a long time.
The only thing I can remember is that Public Bars in the pubs were, ironically, Men Only, and the Lounge Bar was the place for women. We just sort of went along with it (who wanted to be around disgusting, smelly drunks anyway as pubs closed at 6pm in those days).. until a bunch of feminist university women crashed one bar, and smashed the tradition.
Oh - I was turned down for a job as Stock Agent (going round farms assessing sheep and cattle for sale or abbatoir) because I was a woman, and that changed the course of my life.
Apart from that, I did what I wanted, said what I wanted and behaved how I wanted, as did other friends. Sometimes a lack of culture and tradition can speed up (inevitable) natural transitions. We were all the same, with some anatomical differences. My surfboard looked the same as my brother's, and later on those anatomical differences helped me get my car fixed for free, so I didn't bother learning the mechanics.
My mother suffered, however; no State support for a woman on her own with kids if she left the marriage.
And despite today's 'equality' route, I think women are starting to suffer again. The pendulum hasn't found its happy medium yet - or the hunter/gatherer instinct has not yet been bred out of men and they don't know what to do with their testosterone any more. A space worth watching...
Heidi
Comment Written 08-Mar-2012
reply by the author on 08-Mar-2012
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I wish we were real friends in real time...so much to share...so easy to debate with the likes of you, but not this time, or actually never as far as I can remember, but given that, we are both women who have lived,loved and survived by our own terms.
Merci, mon amie...ingrid
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Right with you on that one..! X
Comment from forestport12
I thought I should tell you that I read this. How many men have commented? Was it postive? The age and time in the sixties and what was expected in marriage. Honest writing, and as always there is a wealth of lyrical prose in your writing. Stan
reply by the author on 07-Mar-2012
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I thought I should tell you that I read this. How many men have commented? Was it postive? The age and time in the sixties and what was expected in marriage. Honest writing, and as always there is a wealth of lyrical prose in your writing. Stan
Comment Written 07-Mar-2012
reply by the author on 07-Mar-2012
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Reply...I thought I should tell you that I read this (Don't like to admit it, but hey we have history so I feel obliged) How many men have commented(Give me a clue so that I am not afraid to document my opinion) Was it positive( Actually Stan, more than 20 years ago Alan Alda announced on a late night talk show that he was a feminist. Shocked the hell out of me too. Thought feminists wee suppossed to be women, but apparently not, If in doubt check the ratings yourself) The age and time in the sixties and what was expected in marriage (incomplete sentence without conviction or resolution) Honest, you bet...that was the way it was, way back then, but listen, more importantly you have a novel about to be published about a father's love for a daughter and a current one in progress simply where the girl had better be strong enough, tough enough to survive.....pay attention when the women talk. Your new career may depend on it.
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I've heard tell that 70 to 80% that buy books are women and if anybody wants a book sold and read, had better understand the baby boom generation of women. I'm kind of taking what you said and something I read from an agent.
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and, just out of curiousity, doing what with the infroamtion?
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This one agent I met in the past said that the biggest market are women and that one should keep that in mind, and then my thought added that it must be the baby boomer women that one should be mindful to write for...
Comment from Rama Rao
An excellent essay. The International Women's Day is in fact, on 8th march. The theme for this year is connecting girls and inspiring future. Your story shows how women have come a long way. In India, a singer wrote and sang a song " Indian woman, you have come a long way baby." Women of your country have gone even a longer way. They felled many a male bastions in West. In North America, women outnumber men in colleges and at workplaces as per the bureau of Statistics. Unlike men women do not waste their hard earned wages on things like drugs and alcohol and spend it for the benefit of their families. In my state in the country, one progressive Chief Minister reserved 30% seats in professional colleges and jobs for women. He rightly thought these educated women with their earnings would bring up their families and make them scale new peaks.
Here on this day, I doff my hat to all women.
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2012
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An excellent essay. The International Women's Day is in fact, on 8th march. The theme for this year is connecting girls and inspiring future. Your story shows how women have come a long way. In India, a singer wrote and sang a song " Indian woman, you have come a long way baby." Women of your country have gone even a longer way. They felled many a male bastions in West. In North America, women outnumber men in colleges and at workplaces as per the bureau of Statistics. Unlike men women do not waste their hard earned wages on things like drugs and alcohol and spend it for the benefit of their families. In my state in the country, one progressive Chief Minister reserved 30% seats in professional colleges and jobs for women. He rightly thought these educated women with their earnings would bring up their families and make them scale new peaks.
Here on this day, I doff my hat to all women.
Comment Written 06-Mar-2012
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2012
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You are a man that I'd like to know. It is a different world in India. The victories in North America may ripple out to the world, but it takes courage, often that of men, in order to have women speak for themselves. I suspect that you try to do that and for that I and countless women in your country will be grateful.
A long time ago, before my husband died, we had debates about women's roles. He was a rennaisance man who adored ladies and didn'y understand the fuss/ In victorian times as the suffraget movement grew, women would wear brooches in the shape of butterflies. Amethysts were the gems that signified agreement. Women, afraid could see the growing support through their accessories. Buy humble flowers for frightened women. Tomorrow is the day of signifigance in NA. Most people will not notice.
Comment from DALLAS01
Another awesome write. What I liked about this is that you made your point without moralizing, or condoning, just stating all of the circumstances and how they occurred and the fall out that trailed behind, the good and the (well, whatever) What I really like about your writing is the no bull....approach. This stands alone as a great tribute to women; their struggles and there achievements.
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2012
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Another awesome write. What I liked about this is that you made your point without moralizing, or condoning, just stating all of the circumstances and how they occurred and the fall out that trailed behind, the good and the (well, whatever) What I really like about your writing is the no bull....approach. This stands alone as a great tribute to women; their struggles and there achievements.
Comment Written 06-Mar-2012
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2012
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more hugs
Comment from Cumbrianlass
My god, you rock at this essay stuff. Very strong write, Ingrid. Only fifty years - wow - yet I have to say I have a feeling (and I mentioned this the other day - was it to you?) that women are on the verge of - I hesitate to use the word revolution - but that's the feeling I get. Now we've been given our heads, we are surging to the front of the field. The men are soon to be pipped at the post.
Now, I'm not talking next week, but I think a lot of men, subconsciously, are happy to pass of 'manly' responsibility to women.
The world will change/is changing drastically over the next few decades.
I read somewhere that if women ruled, there'd be no wars. Just a couple of countries not speaking to each other!
This was an excellent, candid essay. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Only one comment - no big deal:
their daughters were afforded the same opportunities as their brothers. - should this not read 'as their sons'?
Av
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2012
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My god, you rock at this essay stuff. Very strong write, Ingrid. Only fifty years - wow - yet I have to say I have a feeling (and I mentioned this the other day - was it to you?) that women are on the verge of - I hesitate to use the word revolution - but that's the feeling I get. Now we've been given our heads, we are surging to the front of the field. The men are soon to be pipped at the post.
Now, I'm not talking next week, but I think a lot of men, subconsciously, are happy to pass of 'manly' responsibility to women.
The world will change/is changing drastically over the next few decades.
I read somewhere that if women ruled, there'd be no wars. Just a couple of countries not speaking to each other!
This was an excellent, candid essay. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Only one comment - no big deal:
their daughters were afforded the same opportunities as their brothers. - should this not read 'as their sons'?
Av
Comment Written 06-Mar-2012
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2012
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Caught me...yes it should and I thought about it afterm but got lazy and didn't change it. I didn' think I could write fiction, Until I took some course I never thought I could write fiction. Prefer essays and offering up points of view...emotional snapshot journalism, but who would care...would likely never do the research that is required for a real in depth writer.
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See, I think you should be sending stuff like this off to magazines and such. Really. It's bloody brilliant stuff.
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There's a few. If it's not an imposition can you go into my portfolio maybe page 4 or 5 there's a story called Michael's Life Decision. It's co-written by my son and me, self explanatory once read. Several people have urged me to send this to some parenting magazines. I'm too close to it, have no opinion. In fact I've sent nothing out to anybody...rejection is not an issue, hey Ive been in sales my whole life. Maybe you read it, but your opinion would be greatly appreciated.
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Of course. I'd be honoured to read it. I'll do it tomorrow night when I get home from work. I've already made a note. Tonight I've to catch up on a ton of reviews (yours included!). But I'll be happy to take a boo. I know I won't be disappointed. Av :o)
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A commercial opinion hard, fast and cold...I know it's a touching story, but put your journalist hat on please.
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Okidoke. No punches pulled. Brownies honour.
Comment from catch22
This is an excellent essay on the evolution of women and the feminist movement. You are right--it all started with birth control. While I am too young to understand many of the struggles that happened here in North America, I have traveled a bit, and have seen first hand women who are still treated as second class citizens. Freedom is a double edged sword. With greater freedom comes greater responsibility, as you point out. Now, life if more complicated for a woman because she does not have prescribed roles--she can choose who and what she wants to be. Women in the West should never forget the history of women's rights and I pray for a time when all women across the world have the same choices and freedoms as men do (not just in the Western nations). The writing is excellent too (clear and concise). Is this meant to be classified under fiction? Just curious.
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2012
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This is an excellent essay on the evolution of women and the feminist movement. You are right--it all started with birth control. While I am too young to understand many of the struggles that happened here in North America, I have traveled a bit, and have seen first hand women who are still treated as second class citizens. Freedom is a double edged sword. With greater freedom comes greater responsibility, as you point out. Now, life if more complicated for a woman because she does not have prescribed roles--she can choose who and what she wants to be. Women in the West should never forget the history of women's rights and I pray for a time when all women across the world have the same choices and freedoms as men do (not just in the Western nations). The writing is excellent too (clear and concise). Is this meant to be classified under fiction? Just curious.
Comment Written 06-Mar-2012
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2012
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Good for you spotting the category. I've already changed it///thsnks. the oral history of women mentoring younger women will always be the glue that makes past accompishment bind. Be that woman and with your travels you will see whee and what can be done. There are many worthwhile projects that are geared towards helping women in 3rd world countries and we should be mindful that we can make a differance.