In a project like this, whose motive is to think sexuality and to educate our students in such an important field of human life, I must post some words under this topic. Sexuality is very important because it can be the most deep experience experience in life of each human being and because it’s the source of life. We mustn’t forget it. And we must face it without prejudices – it is part of life, it is natural and it can be the best of life, but only if everyone can live it in a complete human way. This complete human way of living requires good thought and good emotions, that requires respect for the way of thinking and the way of feeling of everyone that is evolved. It must be this way. Really, because we are talking about a social relationship, it’s essential that each one is pleased. Otherwise, it’s a bad relationship and shouldn’t be tolerated. For a long... long time women all over the world have been submitted to violence because this basic rule was not respected.
Millions and millions men, Christians, Muslins, Jewish and members of other religions or without religion were violent with their women. Men have hit women. Men have stolen their freedom, arresting them in their houses that are prisons in silence. Men have raped them. Men have stoned them, and have burned them and have killed them. There are so many situations every day in every place in entire world that, in this particular subject, we must say our history is tragic!
I think we are facing the prove that human life, and life in general and life of universe has no sense of justice. In fact, women are the source of love and they’ve always been submitted to violence. It’s nonsense, isn’t it?
The life of each one of us starts in a love act of them. To refer the situation they and our fathers give us life, they use to say they make love, that is different to say they make sex (I think this is a typical way of male expression). It is not just a difference in terms, it’s different in semantics.
After, they carry us in their bodies, and they take care of their nutritional behaviour because of that. After they carry us in their arms and take care of our education. And, at the same time, they work and they are wives and they take care of our houses. Wou!
In spite of this fantastic performance, too many times they receive back carelessness, insensitiveness and violence.
After, they carry us in their bodies, and they take care of their nutritional behaviour because of that. After they carry us in their arms and take care of our education. And, at the same time, they work and they are wives and they take care of our houses. Wou!
In spite of this fantastic performance, too many times they receive back carelessness, insensitiveness and violence.
While women take care children, educate them, men are making war… and they say they are superior then women because they make more dangerous things… like war! It’s stupid!
We should look at Human History: it’s a sequence of wars. It's an History of blood! Empires against empires to dominate more and more territory, to dominate more and more richness, to dominate more and more men and women. Always to dominate, never to cooperate (happily Europeen Union is an exception that is growing based on reoson, not on arms; based on cooperation, not in fight).
How could our Human History be if it has been done by women, if we have been a matriarchal society? A society made with their words and not with brave men muscles, with their kindness and without males testosterone?!
In this international day of women, I want to say I’m pleased for all the long way West societies have run in order to put women side by side with men… our society became so much interesting because of that!
Sometimes, when women get power, they make the same mistakes men used to make: they use power in the same aggressive way men usually do it. That is the antithesis, and that is wrong. I hope they get power in women way of being: the power that leads with sensitivity and thought and not with muscles. Muscles are an attribute of basic nature, not an attribute of human nature.
My closing words are kisses and flowers to all women, with a deep wish they teach world to get right balance between thought and feelings. I hope they can teach us how to be educated in thought and specially educated deeply in emotion. In fact, more important and more difficult than educate thought is to educate emotion and that is basis of a good personal and social life.
Jorge Rocha
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This is one of the best tributes I've ever read, about woman's day!
Jorge, allow me to add a few words.
If women today, in western societies, are receiving legal equality with men and the freedom to chose their destiny, it's because of the full-of-self-judgement questions that first Greeks imposed.
At the time of history when keeping women at a lower position was a distinguishing aspect of every society, Greek philosophers dared saying something revolutionary: that females must be equal to males, that if society acts differently then it develops half of its potentials.
In ancient Greek litterature (written mainly by men) many women appear to provoke the misogynist stereotypes. Do you see what was going on? The writers themselves were questioning their own prejudices!
How many stereotypes and prejudices are there today, especially in what sexuality is concerned, that we have to reconsider???
I think that what my teacher posted here is a very good tribute to women and being a woman myself, I recognise that there were many women who have been abused and killed so that I could be in front of this computer writing this, I mean, so that I coulld have my own freedom, which I love and without it I couldn't do half the things I do now! All we can do concerning the other women who are abused right now in the other side of the world is to be brave and hang in there because there will be a time when you can also have your freedom and, who knows, maybe one of your daughters can talk to us about the experience of their mothers, how they were chased, how they were hurt, and contribute the development of their society.
Love,
Ana Marta Carmona, 10.º B
Dear Ana Marta,
While reading your comment, my mind instantly drifted away to a book I have read.
“Never without my daughter” , a true story, that took place in Iran, of one woman's struggle to keep her child and win freedom for them both.
…and then another book came into my mind…
“Patience stone” . For far too long, Afghan women have been faceless and voiceless. The writer, a man, Atiq Rahimi gives face and voice to one unforgettable woman in Afghanistan–and, one could argue, offers her as a proxy for the grievances of millions…it is a rich read, part allegory, part a tale of retribution, part an exploration of honor, love, sex, marriage, war.
Literature has the great privilege of being able to record human experience and share it, from the very source of it. You read and you enter the mind of the writer, his/her heart and soul. Sometimes it’s very difficult for us to imagine how much some people suffer, how much they are suppressed and are deprived from freedom of choices. If we manage to imagine, then we can understand, not only them but ourselves as well.
Open up your minds! Read… and meet the real world. Explore the mystery of human relations…
I do believe that men are responsible for a lot of mistakes. I also believe that women see the world differently. In fact, I think that in a few things women are much better than men.
But the truth is: women are nothing but people. People with personal feelings, thoughts... More than the condition of women or men, are people. And should be respected in that condition.
So the International day of Woman, more than a day to remember how victims or adorable we were or can be, should be the day when men (and some women too) think how strong we were, are and will become.
It's the best day for those people think that they should take us seriously, because one day physical strength will no longer matter, and by history and genetics women are much stronger psychologically.
Above it all, this is the day to remember us that we should respect who is around us, despite different race, sex, age, options of living... This is the day to remember us that we should first of all improve ourselves, in all possible ways, doesn't really matter if you're man, woman or someone that socially chose to be both.
Hello everybody. Hi Jorge! Your vision of women´s day it is a very beautiful one.
I am a little late on the comment but sill I would like to share my vision of this celebration day.
What about:
- the countries were women still seen as inferior?
- the men that still don’t aloud the women to express themselves?
- the societies that practice female genital mutilation?
I think it is about time to really and seriously reflect on these issues.
It is time to think of the historic but actual meaning of the celebration.
Hello, everybody!
Conceição is right driving our attention to that issues. I would like to see my students here making comments about such issues and relating them with concepts we have been thinking.
Students of 10th level can think about it in relation of «etnocentrism, cultural relativism and interculturalism» and in relation with «Values» and its role in «Human Action»; students of 11th level can think relation between those topics and central values of our democracy (liberty, equality and fraternity.
Lets not just talk, but act as well.
Take a look at this site:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/926134765?z00m=19830371
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