Happy Sunday, you're an assh*le!

I don't hit my dog though. He's always sweet to me.

 Saturday night, sitting at home alone in front of the computer, working late. Listening to music and checking for messages on my phone, e-mail, BBM, MSN, Facebook; nothing. Update my status with some stupid line from a movie or a song, something about hating guys? No, don't want to seem desperate and annoy people with the same ol' story. Something about my fabulous personality and ridiculous life maybe? Yes, that'll do for tonight. Phone rings... YES!! Finally someone asking me if I want to go... oh, it's just my service provider telling me I'm late on my phone bill payment, again... Shit, gotta go pay my bill tomorrow...


That's my social life in a nutshell... "This poor friendless creature" you might be thinking right now. Well, let me tell you something, I do have friends. And they do ask me to go out, however I don't go out every night since I don't have the funds to do so and because I am not Kim Kardashian or Paris freakin' Hilton and don't get payed to go clubbing. Stupid celebrities famous for nothing... What's this post about you wonder by now? Well this is basically me bitching about how I have to sit home alone because people suck! And by "people" I mean men. No, not men, because there certainly is nothing manly about the guys I know.

To me a real man is not the one who is getting some ass every night or the one who thinks he can call me only when he wants to and just when he wants to get some... No! That is NOT a real man. A real man is a gentleman. A real man is respectful, polite, understanding and knows how to appreciate real women. Yes, my idea of a real man is not real at all.

I'm not going to lie and say that all women are angels and are ladies but we'll talk about their kind later. Tonight I want to address the "gentlemen" of the world.

See I've always thought of myself as a good girl. I got good grades in school, ate my veggies, listened to my parents, never broke the rules and new exactly where I was headed. Until now. Lately I have been feeling like maybe I'm not quite what I think of myself... No, scratch that, men are not seeing me the way I know I have to be seen. Here's a question: what makes a lady look like a piece of meat? Who's to say what a girl wants if not the girl in question? I don't think I'm the kind to be thought of as a "booty call" or "a one night stand" or whatever it is you want to call it. I am quite aware I'm not what you'd call a babe, I don't have a smoking body and even though I think I'm good looking I know I'm not the hottest, prettiest one in the room. I know. But men don't seem to care about the fact that I'm smart, opinionated, passionate and stand up for my beliefs, these men seem to think they can treat me like the only thing that matters about me is what's between my legs. Well I got news for you guys, I'm not falling for it!

Guys really need to clean up their act. Being sex-obsessed rude jerks is NOT attractive. If there is anyone out there paying attention, please let the rest of your kind know that it is not cool to treat a perfectly respectable woman as a piece of meat that you can objectify and fool to get into her pants. Don't even bother. I don't fall for that act, never have, never will. So, f*ck you! Man-up and cut the crap.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
All the women in the world.

I have a question ma'am!

“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women” –Madeleine Albright

   I have a question for Madam Secretary, what about women who intentionally harm other women? And what happens when a government, organization and the public know about it and do nothing to change the situation?

   I live in a world full of corruption and impunity; awful crimes are committed daily and go unpunished all the time, criminals are not reprehended and the media can’t seem to get enough of it because it sells more papers, and helps the ratings. The justice system always claims to not have the resources, or leads necessary to solve any of the crimes happening every day and we’ve all gotten used to that. But, what happens when we are handing them the information necessary, reporting abuse and injustice and they just look the other way?

    Four years ago, my mom’s boss got transferred to another clinic and a new person was introduced into the working dynamics of an already complicated health establishment in my city. The new lady in charge quickly made herself known as the type to play favorites and cast out her least favorite. My mom has always been a hard-working responsible person and she couldn’t help but being surprised when her new boss began mobbing her. A small group of the nurses working there began to see how they were treated differently and were accused of things they did not do. This went on for four years.

   A few months ago they all decided they’d had enough of this constant abuse and harassment and decided to report her to the absolute highest ranking person in the ministry of health that they could find, nothing happened. Then, they went to a well-known women’s rights organization, still nothing. Finally they went on strike and decided to call the media and make it a public scandal. The real scandal was, no one cared. Four years and a few months later, they’re still fighting for her to be transferred and all they get as a response is “we’re processing your request”. “Processing your request” it all sounds so cold and irrelevant to me.

   

   The part of this whole story that shocks me the most is that this person doesn’t know the women who work under her “lead” and she doesn’t hesitate to report them, harass them, and even try to get them fired under false accusations. It is bad enough that women all over the world have to fight against the injustice and gender issues brought by men and now we also have to worry about women committing these crimes against other women?! Is this really what we have come to?

   Their struggle will continue until this woman is gone from that establishment. However, their shock and outrage will remain as long as they live. I think we cannot progress into equality in our society as long as people like this continue to go unpunished. A society cannot be changed unless we’re all educated to understand that no one is to be treated like less than a human being. But, how do we educate the new generations properly when the generations before us come so tainted by corruption and hate crimes? I can only hope that the new generations will learn about these hateful acts only through history and not through real-life experiences as I have.