WWI

Ok, another little moment of needing to express:

I've never really considered myself much of a feminist. I suppose I always thought I supported feminist principles such as equality, but I've certainly never studied feminist history, or taken a women's studies course.

I'm reading a book titled "Agenda setting, the UN and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights". Fascinating book, with lots of good little tidbits of information and theory.

And there's a chapter on early feminist actions, and particularly the women's anti-war movement during the first world war. A number of brave women from across Europe, and from the USA, held a conference at the Hague, which required risking considerable personal danger, since it was wartime. And apparently Roosewelt called the meeting "silly and base" and "aboslutely futile;. . . wholly useless and slightly mischievous." Newspaper stories called them "a Folly of Petticoats."

And it makes me SO mad!

The idea that the opinion of women was so discounted, discredited and ignored....

so it turns out I am a feminist after all...

love

major personal self-realization moment:

I may have just come to the realization that I find it a major turn off to know that someone is in love with me.

This seems a little strange to me, and I think I will have to examine it further, it may not actually be true, but I decided to be bold and post it on the blog. as ive said before, expressive thinker, and sometimes posting seems the best form of expressing.... even if it may in fact NOT be....

designer vaginas

i just find it so incredibly bizarre.

ive got to share this little tidbit from this article im reading:

Take Helena. A financial analyst, Helena first went to Matlock for Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation. “It was the best thing I ever did. My husband was ecstatic,” she said. With her new vagina in place, Helena was drawn to the option of getting a new hymen. “My husband and I would have loved it if he had been my first. Our anniversary is coming up; we’re renewing our wedding vows. We want to have the virgin experience.”
Helena paid for her new hymen with a credit card. When we spoke she was still waiting for the healing process to end (a process she described as “full of lots of pain and crying, but that I’d go through again if I had to”) before setting up the special one-time conjugal event with her new vestal vagina.

I've been reading all about these things today: "vaginal rejuvenation", "designer labioplasty" (bring in a playboy magazine and say: I want to look like this!!!)

It's so bizarre. Why is the identity of these women so tied to how they look "down there"?? I find it such a bizarre thing for a culture, any culture, to be fixated on. And of course, this idea of feminine "beauty" reminds me so much of the idea shared by many cultures of feminine "beauty" that involves an infibulated vagina - one that has had all of the external genitalia removed, and had the vaginal opening enclosed. both are beautiful, is either natural?