Hello and good evening everyone. How are you all doing? As I can imagine, all of you must know that the 2016 Olympics has already begun where every athlete is giving their all to win. Although, I am not particularly a big fan of the Olympics, I wish all of the athletes the very best in whichever sport they are competing in. Continue reading
Angie Ignacio
My children’s picture book is now underway to being published!
Hello everyone. TGIF! Is everyone doing well? It’s Friday yet again and today I am quite happy because I have some good news that I guess would make any writer happy! Continue reading
Valley of Tears
Bon Dia, readers! It just occurred to me that I have been posting less and less of my own poems and writing on my blog, although that was my initial intentions when I first created my blog. Well these things happen sometimes…
Anyway, today I just wanted to try something slightly different than usual, as you will see if you click on the link below. Today’s Writing Related Friday’s post is a short poem I completed a couple of weeks ago. It started with me writing only one sentence of the poem some months back, but at the time I could not think of anything else to write to complete it. I just did not know what else to write during that time. I can imagine that sort of thing could happen to the best of us.
However, I finally managed to complete the rest of the poem about a month ago which made me really happy and I have been wanted to share it with you all for a while now. If you do not mind could you also like and please let me know what you think of it? I would be more than happy to read your comments in the comment section below. Take care and have a nice day, until my next post. 🙂
Valley of Tears
In this world, I am quite lonely,
But I wonder if you would even care?
As I wallow in my sadness,
And wallow in my despair,
I do not ask for your pity,
That I would not be able to bear,
I only ask of you to please, don’t let me drown
In this never-ending valley of tears.
By: Angie Ignacio
Women getting killed for simply saying no…
Hola todos! Como estas con ustedes? I am doing alright, just dying from the heat a little. It is so damn humid over here on this side of the world.
Any…way. Today’s post is about how some men still do not seem to understand the meaning of ‘no’ when a woman tries turning them down politely and gently, because that woman ends up later getting shot and killed for it. Continue reading
‘A Good Day’ by Kait Rokowski
Hello everyone… TGIF! How are you all this nice Saturday evening? I enjoyed it watching anime as per usual 😛
Anyway, I apologise for not posting yesterday so I’ll try to making up for it today. Today I am posting a poem I came across and found very interesting and heartfelt. The poem is called ‘A Good Day’ and was written by poet Kait Rokowski. She read this poem during a Button Poetry reading. Continue reading
The portrayal of women in the media
Hello everyone. I hope you liked my last blog post on Monday. The whole thing was a nice experience.
Today is my Opinionated Wednesdays but I would also like to get your take on the matter regarding women who are liable to be portrayed by the media (and society) as valuable and worthy only when they are married and with children. Earlier today I read an article on the Huffington Post written by Jennifer Aniston on her struggles and issues with the media as a married, childless and female celebrity. Basically, she was tired of the media always claiming she was pregnant for the umpteenth time and having everyone later come to congratulate her when it was false news.
She mentioned that after becoming a celebrity for over a decade and seeing the lengths ‘journalists’ would go to get their ‘news’ (code: gossip), she later came to the realisation how the tabloids portray her in the media and women in general. In the media a woman’s worth is almost always based on her weight, marital status and if she is pregnant or not. Not to mention, this is not good for young girls who grow up thinking they will never be good enough because of these types of messages being sent out by the media and accepted by society.
In my personal opinion this is ridiculous. Why should these young girls go through life thinking they are not good enough if they do not have the right size, weight, and height? Why should these young girls feel that the only way they can feel complete and fulfilled is if they are married and with children? Becoming complete and fulfilled has nothing to do with being married and having children, it has to do with your mindset. Some people end up becoming very miserable later on in life because they bent to the pressures of our society to get married and have kids when they did not want to. Even if they do want kids one of these days it is still their decision to make on when they plan on having them.
Anyway, I personally agree with most of her article, no surprise there, lol. As she mentioned in her article it is a woman’s body to decide what she wants to do with it… Even if she is married it is her decision (and body) to decide if she wants to have a child at that that time or not. It is her decision not society’s or the media. Why does it seem that women cannot be left alone instead of being pressured left, right and centre? What are your thoughts?
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