It's been a very long time since I have posted but now I'm hoping to get back on the band wagon.
I wanted to tackle some issues that I feel as a woman and as a person that many are attacked with every day.
Firstly with the ever growing influence of media it is my attention that Facebook is full of people who want to demoralise you hurt you and to top it all off it's all behind the safety of a screen so half the time you have no idea who it is. When I left school I was under the misconception that I had left the bullying behind but obviously this was not the case. I need not go into the statistics of suicide and cyber bullying, but they are very frightening numbers. You never know the person you are calling and you don't know what they have going on and all it takes is one comment to push them over the edge. And as callous as some commenters are I very much doubt they would be proud of themselves for causing an end to a life not yet lived to the maximum.
Secondly following from bullying I think that another problem our society has is the sheer unwillingness to talk about mental health problems and worries. It is such a taboo subject. And even sitting here writing this I know I couldn't begin to tell you half of what I have been through with depression or OCD because you simply wouldn't understand you'd think the worst and that there is something strange about me. When actually hundreds of thousands of people go through it every single day of their lives. Disclosing problems to employment is also a big no because as much as employers will say they won't discriminate I'm sure they will find a excuse as to why you're not right for the job that allows them to not openly discriminate. I hope to one day live in a world where mental health issues are empathised with as much as physical issues.
And finally my last bug bear is pregnancy. Being a young mum people think it's ok to assume that you trapped your partner. The assumption of the man trapping is never considered. It's the same with people assuming you've ruined your life. Yet somehow the man is exempt from this. Do we live 200 years in the past. Because I'm sure we do and I've missed the memo. Yes I'm going to be a young mum but that does not for one second mean I am not as capable as an older mum or a person without a child. Again I feel it's very discriminatory. And I don't understand why we live in a society where we think this is acceptable and normal behaviour, to treat eachother as gossip and enemies and not human beings.
Sorry if this is a bit heavy but it needed to be said.
Tasha
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