Comments on: ‘Girls need not wear pink!’

By: Gaynor Young

Gaynor Young — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 05:38:19 +0000

In reply to Caroline Goss. Thanks, Caroline, it was such an interesting blog to work on. With a smile I kiss your eyes Gaynor

By: Caroline Goss

Caroline Goss — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 10:35:38 +0000

Loved it Gaynor, so true. Lots love

By: Gaynor Young

Gaynor Young — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:24:41 +0000

In reply to Jane Mason.

Yes, you’re right, Jane. One can only hope that being and living one’s life a certain way rubs off on others.
Softly I kiss your eyes
Gaynor

By: Gaynor Young

Gaynor Young — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:19:20 +0000

In reply to Romary Wegerle.

Thank you for being such a loyal reader, Romary!
Warmly I kiss your eyes
Gaynor

By: Gaynor Young

Gaynor Young — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:16:51 +0000

In reply to Miriam Erasmus.

You are so right in what you say, sweet Mims!
Gently I kiss your eyes
Gaynor

By: Jane Mason

Jane Mason — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 17:04:08 +0000

Hit the nail right on the head again, Gaynor. How do you do it? This seems such an old message to be trumpeting about : but it needs trumpeting! Our girl children need a special kind of support these days as the enter the idiotic world of ……. What do you weigh? What do you wear? It is in their teenage years that they must get this message – so that by the time they need to face the question of What am I paying you? they have internalized the message. For us, for society as a whole, we need to keep speaking out, and speaking up – I love your tennis illustrations, sport is a good venue to carry the message. Thank you for this. Xxx

By: Jenny Bischoff

Jenny Bischoff — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:35:21 +0000

No. I am not a feminist, either. I do not agree with the principal of married women holding down jobs that married men should be holding. If we stopped looking at ourselves and demanding, and gave men back what we have tried so hard, and for so long, to grab from them (jobs, rights, pay, etc) they just might rise up and become men, again. Not the washed out mob that has produced effiminate men, too scared to speak out against women. For pete’s sake!! Single women, not living with a man because that is in essence, marriage – should be paid the exact same as single men. And leave the work once you have been married. Let’s build men up, not break them down. However great it makes you feel or look, they are the leaders. They are the ones who should be taking responsibility for our nation. To protect us in war. To guide our families. Let men be men, and rather let women become women – as we should be.

By: Romary Wegerle

Romary Wegerle — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 07:52:57 +0000

Well said Gaynor! A very powerful message and so very true. Thank you.

By: Miriam Erasmus

Miriam Erasmus — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:54:42 +0000

Dearest Gaynor, you’ve done it again. A brilliant insightful piece about ‘our’ world. It has always baffled me that women should have to ‘fight’ for the rights that males take for granted. I also have a bone to pick with women who break through, then they do not support their sisters’ aspirations, but instead adopt the maleness of their peers, which is a shame.
There is still a glass ceiling, as you point out, for us, in all walks of life.
The irony is that we are the ones who give birth to, and nurture and raise, the very men who keep us at bay. Ha ha !! They have a laager mentality perhaps to keep the mother figures out of their lives, so they don’t need to answer to us ? Compassion and business savvy are not good bedfellows.
Thank you for this blog.
Love,
Mim
xx