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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
News Worthiness
Does anyone still remember this old concept? Why do I care that Prince William has been touching girls' breasts in some club? Especially if I am reading a Romanian paper. And why is this a home page news? Not even in a less important section.

Ok, so he got lucky, the girl's family is happy. Do I have to read in a paper that having your breasts touched by a semi-drunk royalty has become a reason for family pride? Well, if I knew that, I wouldn't have bothered to study, work etc. I would have just chased some crowned-head-to-be.

Yes, he already has a girlfriend. And besides the fact her boyfriend has been naughty, she has to deal with the fact that the photo has been printed all around the world. I do wonder, has everyone left the "almost cheating" part to the end of the article, as some more spice to add, or do only Romanian papers leave the moral aspects to the end of the article, the part most likely to be skipped?

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posted by Alina @ 2:30 PM   9 comments
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Is the Eternal Feminine at Bay?
Yesterday I came across another online magazine for women. I browsed through it, as I usually do with such magazines, and then I never return. Unless I am really bored and there is nothing else to do.

Their attitude does annoy me. Even if they are aimed at career women, the attitude is a bit wrong. They still promote diets. None focuses more on careers, on experiences, on real accounts on everything. They still all make a purpose of discovering what’s behind the masculine mind. Well I don’t care about that when reading such a magazine. I want to read about women. How they handle stuff. Not a psychologist’s opinion on how men think.

Anyway, back to the respective magazine. I loved the slogan: for women who successfully combine their career and family life. Great! I need some advice on that. Then I saw the sections. Career is fourth, after Home, Family and Beauty??? And the square in front of it has the ugliest, least attractive colors of all: a gray of some sort.

Then I read this article in the Lifestyle section. About successful business women in a man’s world. OK, enough of that. I am tired of people talking about how women become more and more like men when they handle important affairs. How the eternal feminine might be lost on the way to prove their independence, their leadership abilities etc.

Just because women want to do what men do does not mean they won’t bring in their own style. Yes, they might experience lack of time and everything, but as Cris said at a certain point, they still have similar issues when it comes to relationships and life in general. They won’t turn into copies of men in their field. Not all of them anyway. Some might!

So maybe a HowTo on how to stay a woman when doing a man’s job? That would be an interesting subject for me. Or maybe an extensive article about day care (or the lack of it) in Romanian companies? Or more statistics or employed women vs housewives. Or women’s salaries vs men’s salaries. Or Queen Bees in Romania. Do they exist? Single women and single mothers. How to handle all life’s responsibility on your own when clearly the stay at home option is not available? Maybe we should focus on that more and less on pathological fights within a relationship.

Tags: Women, Career Women, Family, Lifestyle, Garbo, Women's Magazines, Journalism

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posted by Alina @ 3:02 PM   9 comments
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