Olivia Ward, Toronto Star(CA) reports on “Ten worst countries for women:”
The image of the 21st century woman is confident, prosperous, glowing with health and beauty.
But for many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our planet, the perks of the cyber age never arrived. As International Women’s Day is celebrated today, they continue to feel the age-old lash of violence, repression, isolation, enforced ignorance and discrimination.
To which on Protein Wisdom, Jamie posts the following comment
Here I sit, a new-millenium American woman. I have three young children, and being their mom was, by family choice and some hardship, my primary job until they were ready for some amount of outside schooling; then I went back to work. My husband now so entirely meets our family’s financial needs that I can pursue a career that pays little but affects many in profound ways; if he had had different ambitions, I would have been not just willing but able to pull off the same trick. I have access to a marketplace of goods, services, and ideas undreamed-of in earlier eras. I have the potentiality to go anywhere, achieve whatever I’m capable of, without regard to arbitrary limitations imposed by my gender or expectations surrounding it. My country, where everyone is equal under the law and everyone has the right to attempt to achieve whatever they can, has afforded me all of these opportunities. Yet it doesn’t appear in this list. Damn them.
Oh, wait: so many of them already are
No person who views himself as a victim can ever be happy. Too many women have achieved perpetual misery by adopting the mantle of victimhood.
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