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That's about it :)
I want them to feel like if they want something enough - they will get it, and that the fact they're a girl doesn't mean a damn thing.
Lucia, a female filmmaker that I adore is Julie Taymore. Pardon me, but she is a fucking genius!
She talks about in the days of the Renaissance most everyone was called to their life's career. This lead to a much more full filling life, as opposed to life filled up.
I am learning how much the work I choose to do is completely motivated by consumerism. What I am trying to capture in my shopping escapades are the unmet needs of beauty, colour, sculpture, design, connection, discovery, ahh haa moments. All of which I can create on my own for me through the artwork that I never get to because I am running the rat race.
I would also like to see the 'normal' size for women jump up to a size 12. I see so many women miserable & feeling like they are of no self worth due to the tag in their pants, and the number on their scale.
Regarding the sizing thing...try living in Whistler, I am a 8 at the Gap but if I need pants in a pinch I am usually an XL in Volcom, or Roxy or any of the skater styles available up here. Sometimes even the XL blouses don't even button up over my B boobies- that's depressing! Being at Rainbow beach on a summer day can be like a Sport's Illustrated swimsuit edition, tons of babes over 40 rockin bikinis with six pack abs and buns of steel. It's pretty inspiring but it makes my post baby belly rather shy! Looking forward to some beach days at Kal Lake with you next summer!
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Luckily when I did live in Whistler it was all pre-baby years (I was ages 18 - 31 yrs) Can't imagine it now... sigh... :-(
Here's to Kal Beach / Okanagan Lake, & real bods!
Breaking through my own barriers and glass-ceilings of olden times is exhilarating and scary, but I also have never felt so alive and happy.
Today I caught myself thinking: "Just take care that you don´t get complacent now!" That´s something I would have never thought a few months ago!
My eyes are wide open now, smiling, curious, confident.
The barriers have broken down, I just need to remind myself of that every day!
If I could find that something, something that was wonderful and made moula I would also love to share that with other Moms to do. Humm...I guess that's kinda gotta be network marketing, but I'd make sure it was a fabulous deal for all.
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to have faith
to be living
to be loving
to have freedom
Perhaps how we cultivate each of these dimensions in our lives and with one another helps us remove glass ceilings and other things that might keep us smaller than our highest selves. Thank you for a great question! Warmly, Lynda (SS: sacred whimsical)
The perceived glass ceiling I am dying to see pushed through is female portrayal & opportunity in television and film, but most painfully, in the blockbuster animated films directed at kids. I almost can't watch them anymore, because I start counting the female voices and calculating the ratio...and it is just plain sad.
Just try watching Monsters Inc. and count the characters that are female throughout the entire film. You can, there are that few of them. Then take a good look at those archetypes. If you were a little girl wanting to role play, which one would you choose? The baby waiting to be saved? The secretary begging for another date after being stood up? Who said monsters were all male?
It seems like all characters are male unless there is some special reason not to be, and that is signaled to the audience with enlarged lips and eyelashes. I'd like the number of female characters to be so big, that I couldn't write about what they represent--because they would simply represent the diverse and colorful female half of the population.