The day the world changed
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So if you missed Oprah’s epic speech at the Golden Globes last night, where have you been?! It has been all over the media, and so I feel the need to touch upon it as a potentially momentous moment in history. If you haven’t seen it, I can only describe it as inspiring, heart felt and motivational. The sort of speech that warms you from the inside and brings a tear to your eye. I’m not usually on the slushy side when it comes to these things, but like a lot of people I have experienced sexual harassment so this speaks to me on a personal level. It
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also speaks to the millions of people out there who are being sexually harassed and exploited now. My experience is thankfully firmly in my past, but for too many it is their now, their everyday and it’s just abhorrent that in 2018 it still goes on.
I strongly celebrate feminism, but I also celebrate the differences between the sexes, sometimes I feel the message gets lost in a sea of ’whip off your bra and burn it’ which saddens me because our differences are what make us unique. That said, I am a firm believer in gender equality on all levels.
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The pay gap, maternity/paternity, in law when it comes to divorce etc are just a cherry on top of the huge cake of inequality that still goes on daily – we should all be equals, we are all people whatever our gender may be.
But my thoughts have remained throughout today, that whilst the world won’t change overnight, we have hope. We have hope that our children may grow up in a world where there is equality and these awful crimes don’t go on, let alone unnoticed, unspoken and ignored. We can do a lot to help heal those who have suffered, and we can
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do a lot to change the world for us and for them. Women couldn’t vote until 100 years ago, and we used to think the world was flat. I believe this is going to be one of these examples we look back on in awe at how much we changed the world. As a Mum, I can but hope.
#OprahforPresident
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Emily du Feu - 8 Jan 18
So if you missed Oprah’s epic speech at the Golden Globes last night, where have you been?! It has been all over the media, and so I feel the need to touch upon it as a potentially momentous moment in history. If you haven’t seen it, I can only describe it as inspiring, heart felt and motivational. The sort of speech that warms you from the inside and brings a tear to your eye. I’m not usually on the slushy side when it comes to these things, but like a lot of people I have experienced sexual harassment so this speaks to me on a personal level. It also speaks to the millions of people out there who are being sexually harassed and exploited now. My experience is thankfully firmly in my past, but for too many it is their now, their everyday and it’s just abhorrent that in 2018 it still goes on.
I strongly celebrate feminism, but I also celebrate the differences between the sexes, sometimes I feel the message gets lost in a sea of ‘whip off your bra and burn it’ which saddens me because our differences are what make us unique. That said, I am a firm believer in gender equality on all levels. The pay gap, maternity/paternity, in law when it comes to divorce etc are just a cherry on top of the huge cake of inequality that still goes on daily – we should all be equals, we are all people whatever our gender may be.
But my thoughts have remained throughout today, that whilst the world won’t change overnight, we have hope. We have hope that our children may grow up in a world where there is equality and these awful crimes don’t go on, let alone unnoticed, unspoken and ignored. We can do a lot to help heal those who have suffered, and we can do a lot to change the world for us and for them. Women couldn’t vote until 100 years ago, and we used to think the world was flat. I believe this is going to be one of these examples we look back on in awe at how much we changed the world. As a Mum, I can but hope.
#OprahforPresident
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