A blog about Women

Hey! So funny story, on Tuesday, as mentioned by both Lee and Miah, it was International Women's Day. Very exciting. But the funny part is I started reading this book called Reviving Ophelia, which just happens to be all about adolescent girls and what a hard time we have growing up because of cultural messages and such. Very interesting and what an awesome coincidence! Or was it a coincidence? You decide :P
Anywho, I'm super interested in this book and now I wanna know like everything about everyone's experiences in middle and high school :P I think the book is spot on about a lot of things. I can relate to the feeling of getting mixed messages, like we're supposed to be obedient and dutiful but think for ourselves and be independant, or we're supposed to be sexy but not sexual (like not a slut). It's hard being a girl! I would definitely recommend this book to any female of any age. It talks about parents and stuff too. A little dense but hey, it wouldn't be that interesting if it wasn't dense too! It packs a lotta info into one book.
Right well, I watched V for Vendetta last night with my dad and my sister and I sort of realized that the whole *SPOILER ALERT* her being tortured by her friend is actually really messed up. It's weird because the first time I saw it I was all like 'wow she's so strong now! She's not afraid of anything or anyone!' and I was all impressed. But now I feel like I have a different perspective and I think it's absolutely horrible that he would torture her. Talk about freaking post traumatic stress. She would have to live with those awful experiences for the rest of her life. In the movie I got the impression that she was over it in like 10 minutes. Granted it was a very emotional 10 minutes and I think she had a few epiphanies but you can't just work through months of traumatic torture and isolation in one big cry that doesn't even last that long. I'VE cried for longer than that about smaller stuff. Hah, sorry for the rant if you weren't interested :P I've been thinking about it and how it bothered me a little. I will say though that I really like that movie, I enjoy it every time I see it. I think it's really well done and I love the acting, especially Natalie Portman. In fact this is the first time I saw it and anything bothered me! And I do like how strong she is by the end. She's all cool and calm and collected :)
*END OF SPOILERS*
Moving on, to my Friday question from last week. You know now that I have a list of things in my head that I wanted to accomplish in a bar. Some other things that I have lists of in my head are places I want to travel someday (Italy, Greece, England *check, France *check x4, Australia, Asia, annnnnnnd probably some others I can't think of), random experiences I want to have (like some of the bar things I had in my last blog, also things like going to a fancy party and dressing up for it, kiss someone at New Years, be involved somehow in a legit movie or TV show - a long shot I know - and some more I can't remember) and movies I wanna see (most recommended to me). The thing is whenever I try to write down a list I always lose interest. Like I wrote a list of movies to see and like added stuff fairly often, I even crossed a few off but then it got moved from the fridge where I had put it and I forgot about it for like a year and by then I wasn't really interested anymore. So now I mostly keep them in my head and I figure if it's something really important I wanted to do or see then I'll remember it eventually :P
Thanks for reading!
Evie :D