I wish I had articles written about me in Wellies & Jumpers.

                                           

The word feminist has been chucked around left right and centre over twitter the last few days, female empowerment has gone into superdrive and yet I still feel like people are missing the point. 

'Feminism is the social, economical and political equality of the sexists'. 

Thats right, I quoted Beyonce (well not actually beyonce but one of her songs & I cant help but feel that with that single line, my entire view of feminism changed. I honestly dont even think its feminism that is the problem... I think it is the constant stereotyping which is made by the media which is causing this. 

It pains me to say this, as I love the media, I love studying it,I love the hype that is generated by it and it's cuckoo journalists trying to the best of their ability to sell another boring tabloid story. However, Its the reoccuring rubbish that gets sporuted out that has women aroudn the world screaming out in anguish! 

There is a favourite post of mine on the internet which shows how the media dramatize everything that a woman is wearing and then simplfieis the meaning of it. Sexy *insert name here* wears a figure hugging number to the ball. = woman wears dress outside. 

Look at this above article. I got it from the Daily Mail this morning (7.7.14), Look at each of these articles which have pride of place on the front page of the website to the right hand side...  Bikini Clad Helen Finnagan... Posh in a Baggy Jumper & Wellies.... Another bikini clad beauty  followed up by Reality star in a Plunging peach pencil dress whose cleavage is on show...

It's lazy and quite frankly boring as hell.. so what!? I wear a baggy jumper & wellies when I cant be assed... god forbid I get my boobs out once in a while... and my lease favourite comment... Balotelli's fiancee being referred to as his prize. 

I cannot stress enough, I am not blaming men for this.This is not one big feminist rant... however I am annoyed with the newspaper itself. Until the media starts treating gender's as equal then quite frankly all the mumbling in the world aroudn social media will stay ignored. 

btw. I've boycotted the Daily Mail, bunch of prententious tory wankers anyway. 

G x

Being back Home

My year at university has come to an end!
For many that would mean mega excitement, a massive holiday and chilling out for summer, sadly for me it means a whole summer of hard work at my childhood pub. Well I say childhood, I started working there when I was sixteen years old! I have three pieces of coursework left to do and voila! I'm finished!

I'm turning the big 2-0 in the next few months which is something to look forward to (or dread,  I haven't quite decided yet) but I've decided to start thinking about things I want to conquer between now and the end of summer, admittedly one big part is working on my savings, so at least when I finish uni I'll be able to get myself sorted, Ive had one of my oldest friends say they'd come and move up to London to live with me, which would be pretty sweet I must admit, but really I need to start considering war my future is going to entail.

I look at some of my third year friends who are leaving university this summer, and they seem to have all elements of their lives sorted out, some are engaged, others have scored internships or their dream jobs. I'm frequently starting to worry that at the ripe old age of 22, I will have no idea what to do!

I've never considered my life plan, my mother always used to tell me to think about marriage and kids etc, my dads always said to work on my career, quite frankly I've never actually considered it for myself and I have a lot of thinking to do!
A lot of it I'll need a lot of forward planning, I'll need a lot of experience so hopefully, when I'm all moved into my new house in July/August it may be time to start thinking about internships or even volunteering at any opportunity I have!

This has really just been a bit of a life report at the moment, my minds a bit of a mess and quite frankly if I forward plan it stops me thinking about at the moment! I get to escape to 'The North' (as it's famously referred to by one of my friends) next week so hopefully I'll get a bit of free time to sit back and consider a few things and hopefully start the summer in a much happier, better mindset.

Till Next Time,

G x