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Thursday, August 27, 2015

THE PRECARIOUS POSITION OF THE MODERN WOMAN


I. Agnes HedengÄrd's Video Accuses Fashion Agencies Of 'Absurd' Standards


This Swedish young woman has modelled since she was 15, according to Metro UK.

But now she says she hasn't been able to find work in the last five years

due to the industry's "absurd" standard that has her pegged as "too big."


II. Dating in America is completely unfair

The main idea is that women have been attending college at much higher rates than men since the 1980s, in the U.S.

The dating pool for college-educated people in their 30s now has five women for every four men. For people in their 20s, it's four women for every three men.

 In Manhattan, there are 38 percent more female college grads under the age of 25 than college-grad men.

86 percent in Miami, 49 percent in Washington and 37 percent in Los Angeles!  Ouch!


III. Murder is the second most likely way for women to die at work

The gruesome killing of reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward reminded us Wednesday,

murder happens surprisingly often on the job. 

After car accidents, homicide is the most likely way for women to die at work, representing 21 percent of workplace deaths.

Men, on the other hand, are more likely to die many other ways.

But it is really playing with numbers as the politicians love to do.

There were 341 men and 67 women murdered on the job.

Yet, the share of workplace killings by co-workers appears to be inching up.

The world has always been a crazy place

in which to try to live and love.

It just seems to have gotten crazier for women lately.

16 comments:

  1. hanks for this, Roland. It seems that whenever people make some progress--and in this case it's women--the story is two steps forward one step back.

    But when it comes to models, ever since I can remember models have been too thin, with the exception of a golden period in couple years in the 80s when women had curves, like Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell. But those days are gone.

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    1. It really sends a dysfunctional message to impressionable teen girls -- prompting them to do hurtful things to their bodies to attain an impossible body image. Sigh.

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  2. Sadly true.
    And women aren't any safer at home. In Australia two women die at the hands of their partners (or ex partners) every week, and many more are damaged.
    Crazy world. Crazy and cruel.

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    1. The same is true here in America -- and verbal abuse over years leads to wounds that never truly heal. :-(

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  3. Agnes is tiny! I'm glad more women go to college, but men need to attend college, too. I would prefer it if the number of men and women murdered at work could be ZERO.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. Men think about the debt necessary to repay all those student loans and look at quicker ways to get into the job market without that ball and chain of debt.

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  4. Women have never had it easy, but modelling is basically a meat market for clothes. As for deaths in the workplace, don't most of them occur with firearms as the weapon of choice, followed by knives? An emotional person doesn't think of consequences, only entitlement.

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    1. Yes, firearms are the means of choice, but a baseball bat will get the job done -- and as you say, irrational people see only their rage. :-(

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  5. Hi Roland - women are always under the spotlight - and that murder was just appalling ... so sad and so desperate for their families. Not good ... but am glad more women are educating themselves ... Hilary

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    1. Yes, things are getting both better and worse for women here in the states. And I grieve for those who loved the two that were so savagely murdered

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  6. As my dad said when I was a kid, the world was a messed up place when he entered it and would be when he left.
    I appreciate that you acknowledge women's rights in such a fundamental way. It bothers me that so many women undermine women's rights. At least we can vote, own property and work.

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    1. Sadly, many women do not exercise the hard-won right to vote. I touch on that in my DEATH IN THE HOUSE OF LIFE set in 1895 Egypt.

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  7. Too big? She's already a pencil.
    The killing of that reporter and cameraman was so tragic. We'll never know why he did it since the killer shot himself.

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    1. Isn't that silly about Agnes? Sigh.

      The killer was a troubled man who cried "VICTIM!" even as he murdered two innocent people. Sigh.

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  8. Women don't have it easy anywhere, do they?

    The modelling world is just crazy.

    And the murder was just horrifying, agree with the poster who said 'prefer workplace deaths to be zero'.

    I'm not sure why women with grad degrees can't date men without one? Though parity between genders would be good to have, in education, as in other spheres.

    A thought provoking post. Thank you.

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    1. I think women with degrees want satisfying conversations and at least a hope of their partner understanding their thinking processes.

      I am glad you enjoyed my post. :-)

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