Is Feminism dead??

Thinking a lot about the demise of feminism and the young ladies of today. Glad to know it still exists in some form. Wouldn't have thought so though, the way things are.
The UK government spending money on creating adverts to let young women know its wrong for their boyfriends to call them names, undermine them, hit them, as the recent Shane Meadows advert shows.. (I wonder if he donated any of his fee to charity) they need it because at the same time the UK government are closing down refuges for women and children, battered and tortured women and children escaping from the clutches of controlling bullying men thrown onto the street to access their support at 'walk-in centres'...


Still women are not on equal pay, still women are controlled day to day.
Now women think their tits and ass are their power- wrong kind of power sister.

Get this!- I was at my girls primary school valentines disco (ages 3-10) the other evening when a small boy from my daughters class (age 8) came over to her with 2 other boys and said ''yeah dance for us, shake your butt and I will pay you £2'' !! good grief, where did he come from?...oh yeah, the world around him.

We could lazily blame the parents alone or we could start looking to ourselves as well. Our compliance with all this degradation. Nuts, Loaded, The Star, The Sun..to name but some. All at eye level, integrated in our existences, normal everyday life.

My daughter went on to tell him that Girls cannot be bought with cash...confusing I guess as this is not the message he obviously gets from society.

HEAVY


Now for something lovely.
A woman named Emma Lazenby won the short film Bafta for her animation 'Mother of many' which was inspired by her Mother, a midwife.

A wee clip

2010!!!!!

Blimey!

I had to take time out. Since May 2008, I had to sort my family out.
Midwiffing left no space for that WHATSOEVER. Since my last post I have moved house twice, my eldest left home, youngest started school nursery, third child had to be home schooled as there was no place at secondary school to be had (apart from the one closest to us which I would not touch with a barge pole since the second child's friend hung himself in year 7 due to bullying in that environment...)I learnt who my absent (for 36years) Father was and hence, have learnt a few things about myself.

So

I fell down the mountain but have tended my injuries and have dusted myself down, repacked my kit bag and am at the final point of preparation to get back up it.....

Before that, I will move back into my family home which my Love has so greatly toiled upon and tended to.


End of April will see me re-entering the world of higher learning.

I thought maybe I would hit the ground running but that looks unlikely. What is likely is that I am clearer,wiser, stronger and less naive than I was before thanks to my trials of life. Oh yeah, and sober- no longer need to hit the vino at the end of the long days when I can't cope, no more smoking either! That is thanks to some marvellous hypno.

Things are looking brighter, the world being an oyster, get back what you put out and all that ;)

speaking of birth...

..you have to consider death...if you didn't consider these two side by side, twins, except one's going this way and the other is going that away...


Community placement put me in my place (where i should have been)
the place was about being and letting things be, be there to listen and learn
be there to absorb and revolt, be there to hear the stories of life and life to come and give the best of yourself that you can, in order to influence the good health and wellbeing of all you come across.

If only i could apply it to my own life

The Rabbit has died and been buried and we have all cried out

My children are beautiful and caring and sensitive and brutal

There you go

The last blog was first o may and now tis 22nd
that's how time gets

I said then that i felt like a student midwife ..now i feel like a SMW
Ive met a few MSW's .. fine ladies
Then there are the queens: the RMW's ....
It has been wonderful to have experienced FHHR and iIm glad when everything is NAD on urinalysis...when i get leuckocytes +++ that freaks me and so does taking hb
Itchy palms and soles
genital warts creeping up the tubular- will it be passed on?
Can you poo?

Apparently some people can't

However


I can now take bloods from real live people YErgg bleagh blah blerr

but did it and will have to continue to do so

My mentor ms Ntash has been very devine and wise and I am thankful for her introduction for me into the real life world of midwiffing

FEELING LIKE A STUDENT MIDWIFE

It's a very emotional experience being a student MW, one has to assimilate everything that has ever been in Womanhood. Process, understand, relate to all that goes on around you in practice.
I've been on placement 3days in community and the slices of life are amazing, saddening, empowering, shocking but never boring! the only thing that is boring is the political landscape in which one has to function within and believe me it is saturated.
It has been challenging and rewarding simultaneously and I feel I have come home to where I need to be :)
I would recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone this way inclined

MOTHERS RULE!

No matter how much shize or pressure or maths or rabbits or she said this he said that or nonsense as such
permeates your existence
you know
you know

let it ride, be kind
to yourself, first
then all else will follow

FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH OPEN MINDS....

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1442372416

My friend who is a horror freak sent me this as I have been talking so much about biology recently
The film is about mutated male and female and what happens in the Horror world of Biology experimentation...

ummm.. wonder what Jenny would make of it all