Where are the strong women?
I attended one of my favourite professors' graduation retirement party and got to talk with one of my classmate's wife. She was talking about her younger sister, who is nearing her 30th birthday and still living with her parents. She told me how frustrated her sister is and how she's ready to find a husband and move out. I tried not to get too feminist in front of her (I'm tactless; not stupid) but really... whiskey tango foxtrot?
I mean, if it was "oh, I want to move out, but I'm not yet financially stable to do so", then I get that. I'm not nearing my 30th birthday any time soon but I'm in the same situation. But "oh, I want to move out, but I haven't found a man yet"? I mean, really? Aren't we past that now? Hasn't the feminist movement worked so that women can be independent and own her own property, without being a property herself, first of her father, and then of her husband? Why can't she just move out on her own? Why can't she get a roommate? Why can't she just rent some place until she can afford a place of her own? Why can't she do any of that until she finds herself a MAN?
Where have the strong women gone? What happened to the dream of the girl president?/she's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent.
Ladies (though I doubt anyone reads this at this point in time, ladies or gentlemen), if you want to achieve independence, I urge you to think about how you're going to do that, instead of dreaming of a fairy godmother to poof you out of or a prince charming to rescue you from your self-imposed dungeon. I mean, isn't that another form of dependency? Besides, that Cinderella complex is so passé.
I mean, if it was "oh, I want to move out, but I'm not yet financially stable to do so", then I get that. I'm not nearing my 30th birthday any time soon but I'm in the same situation. But "oh, I want to move out, but I haven't found a man yet"? I mean, really? Aren't we past that now? Hasn't the feminist movement worked so that women can be independent and own her own property, without being a property herself, first of her father, and then of her husband? Why can't she just move out on her own? Why can't she get a roommate? Why can't she just rent some place until she can afford a place of her own? Why can't she do any of that until she finds herself a MAN?
Where have the strong women gone? What happened to the dream of the girl president?/she's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent.
Ladies (though I doubt anyone reads this at this point in time, ladies or gentlemen), if you want to achieve independence, I urge you to think about how you're going to do that, instead of dreaming of a fairy godmother to poof you out of or a prince charming to rescue you from your self-imposed dungeon. I mean, isn't that another form of dependency? Besides, that Cinderella complex is so passé.