new day More rain

Well I think its really time now to seriously consider building an ark!!!.

The water is still flowing here in wales but its much much worse in other areas of the country and my thoughts are with them.

Went to the Pub last night and put the world to rights with a group of friends. conversations ranged from the role of religion in the problems of the world to the right way to go for a pee in the woods when camping............Eclectic is the word I think.

one of the main topics of conversation was the reluctance of people in general to accept responsiblity for any of their actions. There seems to be a culture of Right over responsiblity.

We want the right to be anything we want and do what we want with our lives but the weight of responsiblity seems to be to much to bear.

Examples include Schools being told to educate children in the moral aspects of life because the parents of said children are deemed to be unable to do it. Well surely its their job!! The woman recently who sued a school for not educating her child sexually resulting in the child becoming pregnant ....................am I missing something.................What happened to the responsibility of the parent to turn out rounded well developed offspring!!!!

Personally as a parent I take Joy in the fact that my daughter is independant, well mannered, sexually informed and has a high sense of personal worth .............She is 16 and I have no doubt in years to come will embark on a sexual relationship but at that point she will have been educated in the physical, psychological and socialogical aspects of sex.

The main problem I think with sex in the culture at the moment is that it has been turned into a selling tool for everything from cars to Shampoo...........................and its all Female sexuality............you very rarely see male sexuality displayed in the way that female is.

I dont think that the shampoo advert for organics would work with a guy coming all over the telly do you???

So what we tell our girls is that its ok to use your sex for gain.................to sell anything.............including themselves...........

Instead of making sex sacred. beautiful and something to be proud of, we denigrate it, demean it and make its somehting to be scared, and ashamed of


Sad really

OW

What do we do about our young women

One of the things I am most concerned with is the young women in the world and what their image of themselves is. I deal with young women every day in my job and it scares me that these girls have very little self value and tend to value themselves on only two things.

1. how they look

2. What they have

This I think is our fault - the older woman I mean, we allow our girls to think only that their value is in their bodies, On videos on Tv in papers women are shown half naked, extremly sexual and being pawed and played with by some random man.

Why do we not celebrate our bright women, the scientists, the authors and poets, the Artists.

We would rather drool over the latest hilton escapade and posh's new dress than discuss the situation in iraq.

Its OUR Fault, We buy the magazines we tell our girls subconsiously that their only value is in their surface appearence.

It scares the hell out of me when I asked a group of `14 year old girls what they would do if they could do anything in the world. No limit. and the best they came up with was shopping in new York.

Where are the dreams, where is the passion,why are they so appathetic

The answer

US!!! We feed this we ask little of them and then are surprised with we get little back.

If we all stopped buying into the celebrity mentality and the magazine cult all at once we could put things in perspective

There is something wrong with girls when they are having sex with boys in school fields and filming it to put on U Tube. Or rather is there something very very wrong with why they feel they have to do this, or why they thing it would be in any way a good thing.

Can we do anything

what do you think

OW

the Diary of an ordinary woman

its July 27th and its raining Again!!

I dont think its stopped raining since march which is a bit depressing.

I have decided to put my thoughts down in this diary to speak up for woman of a certain age and a certain mental status, to show that we are not all vacuous bints but rather women who think, have and express opinions and have an intellectual nature.

I am going to write on topics which I love and have strong opinions about, if you agree with me or disagree with me thats fine I would love to hear from you, however I would like this to be a place where all people can express themselves without fear of being shouted down or talked down to.

All of the opinions are my own and I am not trying to sell you anything.

I am keeping my identity secret as I think that its better that way.

Keep well and out of the rain

Ordinary woman