The 1932 Soviet poster dedicated to the8th of March holiday.
The red text reads:
8th of March is the day of the rebellion of the working women against the kitchen slavery".
The grey text in lower right reads:
Say NO to the oppression and Babbittry of the household work!"
This reminds me of Sec 3-4's History lessons...Source Based Questions which made me really critical of advertisements and look at them in a different light. History taught me a lot. Anyway, it's a tradition meaningfully-rich day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.
From Wikipedia:
Started as a political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries (primarily Russia and the countries of former Soviet bloc). In some celebrations, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love to the women around them in a way somewhat similar to Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day mixed together. In others, however, the political and human rights theme as designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.
Anyway, Since it is International Women's Day, ( I hope Siti knows that it is Today, since she's quite the feminist, haha...) TA-DA!
Faces in Singapore...
The old woman who sells flowers by Eran Dinur.
by Chilombiano.
by hunting_owl.
and Everywhere Else.
by Sukanto Debnath
A woman has the age she deserves.
- Coco Chanel
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
- George Carlin
(this is just funny. hoho)
by tripowski
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
The Life of Reason, 1905-1906
-George Santayana
Well behaved women rarely make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
by Ayres no graces
The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
- Louise Otto
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
-Margaret Fuller
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
-Maureen Regan
Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer... the great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want?
- Sigmund Freud
by theXenon
Today's Websites:
Flickr & Weheartit.com
Labels: femininity, photos, special days
