Yeah, I tried my best to come up with a title for this post and
this is all I could find mostly because I’m baffled by what’s happening to
Romanian women, and women all over the world, no doubt.
I have a thirst for traveling and I feel like crying that I
can walk thru the streets of New York, see the fabulous French cafés, or experience the colors of India
only on Google street view … for now anyway.
And no, I haven’t been to other countries to see if this
crazy phenomenon that’s happening on my homeland, it’s happening anywhere else
as well, but I am writing this for every woman out there who thinks she needs
to sell herself in any way for material stuff.
I came over a post, today, that gave me chills. I realized
how many powerful women fought for us in their own – at that time – insignificant
way and how many of us do not exploit the legacy that they have left us.
And here’s the post http://news.distractify.com/people/powerful-photos-of-women/?v=1
The only thing a woman wanted was to run in the Boston
Marathon and she had the strength to do so. Maybe we should take a minute and
wonder if it wasn’t for her, would we have women athletes at all?
This post started out of my own anger an outrage but while I’m
typing I’m thinking it’s not only about that, It’s about our future, it’s about
our dignity, it’s about having something to be proud of.
We are the most magnificent creatures on thin planet. We
have the power to bring life into the world and we let ourselves be manipulated
by the idea of fame and money.
We stare at the TV every goddamn day and they tell us we’re
not good enough, we’re not pretty enough, we don’t have enough money to be our
own person so we sell ourselves, we starve ourselves, we dye our hair and paint
our nails, we buy shit we don’t need for the prospect of being a better us, a
perfect us. To achieve an idyllic perfection that nobody can achieve and we lose
ourselves in this whole conundrum, we get deviated from doing great things.
I wanted to write something especially for the women in my
country. For the past five years, or so, there has been a Muslim migration and
a lot of women have been seduced by whatever those men have to offer them and
now every day. Every fucking day I see Romanian women, white women, subject themselves
to that whole hijab thing, covering their faces, not being able to do ANYTHING
but raise the children, not being able to leave the house except with the
children, not being able to peruse a dream or a passion because the religion of
the man you chose to marry, forbids it. I’d like to think that these types of marriages
took place out of love as well, maybe they had a calling, maybe these women
were born to be mothers and nothing more. But that’s too optimistic so I won’t
get my hopes up.
Most likely these marriages took place because of a
desperate need for liberation and freedom. And yes I know that doesn’t sound
logical when you say it out loud. But the way I came to this conclusion is the
following: many people think freedom is money, happiness is money, things that
give you any kind of satisfaction are things that you need money for and these
men can provide only one thing: MONEY and the only thing that money does in
this case is lock you up, clip your wings and wipe the smile from your face. And
I’m not writing this because my run around with religion or because I’m a
racist.
WAKE UP, YOU ARE SELLING YOURSELF so you can buy a pair of
shoes that I can’t afford and I can guarantee you that I’m happier with my 35 lei
pair of sneakers that you are in your 400 euros pair of Jimmy Choo’s that
nobody is able to see anyway.
I’m not saying having fancy things is wrong. There’s a
saying in my country “the fox that can’t reach the grapes, says they’re bitter”
and this is not the case. FIGHT! Earn your own money, buy the things you want
and feel proud walking down the street, be happy, be yourself, BE FREE! Because
right now you’re nothing but a housekeeper who’s paid in fancy stuff and I’m
sure the goal behind marrying into a religion that ostracizes women was exactly
the fear of not becoming a housekeeper.
And if this doesn’t convince you, than think about this:
there are women in Muslim countries that are fighting tooth and nail against
this, women who are fighting for your freedom, women who are beaten and raped
and eventually killed only so that YOU can have your free will.
Ladies, stop subjecting yourselves to torturous changes only
so that you can be what society thinks you have to be.
YOU ARE THE SOCIETY!
You can set the impossible standards or you can cut them loose. You and only
you can let you be yourselves!
Next, I’ll post some pictures of powerful and beautiful women
from the article I told you about.
