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May 02, 2009

Stereotyping women

It must be since the stone age, when this problem started - and some men, unfortunately, haven't moved on to upgrade their social knowledge to-date.

When a woman, speaks her mind, gets to the point, confronts and basically does her job as a professional, she gets labelled as not being woman enough. That is the most biased statement and it reflects rather poorly on the men who make sweeping statements like that. Just because they have been left behind in the upgrade of things, doesn't mean that the problem is with the woman in question. They are the ones in dire need of a software and hardware upgrade.

What is the problem about looking every bit a woman, and yet having the gall to take on an argument with the rest of the boys? I don't think there is a problem, because not every woman is a 'dumb blonde' and not every blonde is dumb ; simply because hair colour has nothing to do with the level of intelligence.

Perhaps these men, men who make such comments to me are simply accustomed to women from some village which is still probably drawing water from the well. The surprising fact is, they have never lived in such a village, but grew up in the city with electricity, water from a tap and internet. So what happened to these people? They probably got left behind because they were too busy making women jokes to actually notice that women today, have an identity of their own. Most do not even use their husbands surname anymore, suffix or otherwise.

It used to bother me, when some guy tells me this, but not anymore, because I think that when a person says that, he's trying to shift the blame over to the woman - it's like saying, if you were more female, we won't be in this predicament. Well, my answer would be, if you did your job, I wouldn't be forced to put you in this predicament!

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