Women's @ MindSay

Today is International Women's Day. HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!!! International Women's Day (March 8th) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

I got the above information from here: http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm You can learn more about this holiday at the website as well.

For more on this holiday, Check out Wikipedia's article: International Women's Day

I want to thank ALL of the women out there who inspire, do good, encourage girls, and fight for equality.

So, How do YOU celebrate the holiday? Please share your story by replying to this entry.

Much before the existence of pills and the modern antibiotics, Mother Nature offered a bountiful home remedies to cure all ills. Here is a ready reckoner for these home remedies that will come in handy while tackling your family's common illnesses. So the next time you or anyone at home is feeling under the weather, head for the kitchen cabinet instead of your medicinal kit. Listed below are a host of remedies for some common ailments.  

• Cough
  
  Add a gram of turmeric (haldi) powder to a teaspoon of honey for curing dry cough. Also chew a cardamom for a long time.
  
• Cold
  
  Mix a gram of dalchini powder with a teaspoon of honey to curb a cold. Prepare a cup of tea to which you should add ginger, clove, bay leaf and black pepper. This should be consumed twice a day. Reduce the intake as the cold disappears.
  
• Hiccups
  
  Take a warm slice of lemon and sprinkle salt, sugar and black pepper on it. The lemon should be eaten until the hiccups stop.
  
• Toothache
  
  Chew a clove or dip a piece of cotton wool in clove oil and place on the aching tooth for best results.
  
• Itching
  
  Apply neem oil to the affected area. Or make a fresh paste of some neem leaves and apply externally. Boil neem leaves in the hot water used for your bath. Also eat a teaspoon of neem juice along with sugar for quick relief.
  
• Injury
  
  For any cut or wound, apply turmeric powder to the injured portion to stop the bleeding. It also works as an antiseptic. You can tie a bandage after applying haldi.
  
• Bodyache
  
  Boil ten tulsi leaves in one cup of water until the syrup is reduced to half a cup. After cooling, add salt to the liquid decoction. Take this mixture daily to stop body ache.  Alternatively take half a gram of dalchini powder with one-teaspoon honey at least twice a day for best results.
  
• Physical weakness
  
  In order to reduce weakness and increase blood circulation, make a dry fruit milkshake made out of ten dry grapes, five  dates and two dry figs along with a glass of milk. Have it once or twice a day to feel fresh and energetic.
  
• Diabetes
  
  The best remedy for this disease is the bitter gourd, better known as 'karela'. Eat this vegetable as often as you can or have at least one tablespoon of karela juice daily to reduce blood sugar levels in your blood and urine. Besides, take ten tulsi leaves, ten neem leaves and ten belpatras with a glass of water early morning on an empty stomach. It will work wonders in keeping your sugar levels under control.

A Woman's Version of the Night Before Christmas

 

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the kitchen;

I was cooking and baking and moanin and bitchin.

 I've been here for hours, I can't stop to rest.

This room's a disaster, just look at this mess!

Tomorrow I've got thirty people to feed. They expect all the trimmings.

Who cares what I need! My feet are both blistered, I've got cramps in my legs.

The cat just knocked over a bowl full of eggs.

There's a knock at the door and the telephone's ringing;

frosting drips on the counter as the microwave's dinging.

Two pies in the oven, dessert's almost done; my cookbook is soiled with butter and crumbs.

I've had all I can stand, I can't take anymore;

Then in walks my husband, spilling rum on the floor.

 He weaves and he wobbles, his balance unsteady; then grins as he chuckles "The egg nog is ready!"

 He looks all around and with total regret, says, "What's taking so long....aren't you through in here yet?"

 As quick as a flash I reach for a knife; He loses an earlobe;

I wanted his life!

 He flees from the room in terror and pain and screams, "MY GOD WOMAN, YOU'RE GOING INSANE!!"

Now what was I doing, and what is that smell?

 Oh darn it's the pies! They're burned all to hell!

I hate to admit when I make a mistake, but I put them on BROIL instead of on BAKE.

What else can go wrong? Is there still more ahead?

If this is good living, I'd rather be dead. Lord, don't get me wrong,

I love holidays; It just leaves me exhausted, all shaky and dazed.

But I promise you one thing, if I live 'til next year, You won't find me pulling my hair out in here.

 I'll hire a maid, a cook, and a waiter; and if that doesn't work,

I'LL HAVE IT ALL CATERED! HAPPY HOLIDAYS

1869 - the year that the modern vibrator was patented. Why, you ask, should we know such a thing, or care?

Well, its origins might surprise you....

Dildos had been in existence for centuries, but 1869 marks a year when American inventiveness, the industrial age, and feminine repression under Victorianism all collided. It seems women had been having fits of hysteria during this time, and doctors were a bit overwhelmed with how to treat them. Hysteria derives from the Greek histerikos - or, disturbed womb or uterus.

How appropriate - what women are really suffering from is disturbance, or in this case, profound lack of it, in the sexual area of their lives and bodies.

So....what did our good doctors do? Female sexuality = bad, so they couldn't advocate that the woman have some fantastic sex, and of course where would one go to get that and not be damned for it??? But the problem must be treated. So they used good old American ingenuity. It seems that the best possible relief for hysterical fits is a vigorous massage of the patient's vulva until the woman achieves paroxysm, or 'release'. Once she'd achieved that, then she was fine for a while...until she needed release again.

Doctors administered this release manually, but of course, it took too much time, and there wasn't enough money involved in administering orgasms to female patients, so they cast about for a solution.

And found it by inventing a mechanized orgasm deliverer - the mechanical vibrator. George Williams, M.D. created the clunky, oversized labor saving device in 1869, thus freeing physicians to earn more money and take on additional patients, while reducing physician fatigue in the process. Truly a miracle.

So there you have it. The modern vibrator has its origins as a nice, automated way of delivering feminine orgasm so men don't have to be bothered. Our feminine 'disease', literally dis-ease, can be cured by the modern marvel of a machine!

Will wonders never cease???

Ah Valentines Day, a day where lovers buy roses to love ones, a day where people wear red clothes to heighten the ambiance. Every February 14, restaurants are filled with dating lovers and love stories fill the cinemas. Love songs fill the airwaves in every radio stations you hear as you pass houses going to the market. Lodges are filled to the max by lovers doing their “thing”. Ah this day….really sucks!

You know as I grow tired of this day. I sometimes wonder…why are modern day Filipina becoming soooooo cheap. Yep you heard it right folks…CHEAP! Why? You don’t know why? I’ll tell you why.

If compared long ago, I really appreciate those “babe worshipped” songs in the 80’s. Songs like “Sinasamba Kita” (I Worship You) by Rey Vallera, “Be My Lady” by Martin Nievera, “Kamusta Ka” (How Are You) by Nonoy Zuñiga and a lot of songs composed by Mr. Jose Mari Chan talks about how beautiful a woman can be. Here are songs that place a woman on the pedestal. These songs give credit to a woman’s mystery and seductiveness. They show how a lover adores his beloved, like a real treasure. Let’s talk about movies. In the time of the Sampaguita pictures and LVN, We find Filipina women being courted by their suitors. In those times “pinaghihirapan ng lalaki ang panliligaw sa babae.” Films like Takipsilim, Igorota, and Sa Lumang Simbahan shows love themes where women are not insatiable fish pickers.

Alas! Gone are those great days.

Look at the going thread. This so-called modern lifestyle is not really beneficial. I’m not saying that every modern life style is bad nor am I saying that being a liberated Filipina is cheap. But there is a big difference between being liberated and being down right cheap. Liberated means an independent woman. A woman who can have her own flat, she can raise her status on a male dominated world, and she doesn’t need men to tell her what to do. Now that is being liberated. Now what is down right cheap?

Now a days, those love songs that I said earlier where being re-issued. The difference is that today girls with squeaky voices sing those songs. Now you may say that there is nothing wrong with that. Really? Just try to listen to those songs in their cheap versions. If a girl sings the song it’s like that she is pleading for a guy’s love. OH NO!!!!!!! How desperate can she be? Why is there no other guy interested on her that she has to kneel down and embrace the guy’s legs? Now we hear song that makes a woman sound too anxious on a guy’s affection.

Aside for those songs, there are songs composed to sound like girls admiring a dork. Example, the song Close to You by the Carpenters. Here is a girl singing praises to a guy who she compares to something which angels go down to, like a god. Now I know why Karen starves herself to death. Here in the Philippines…well the only think I can do is to puke.

Now even in movies, WHAAAAAA!!!! The worst. We see girls fighting over a dope. This is very prevalent in Asian telenovelas. So ano yung pinag-aagawan nila? Those “swangays” na mga mukhang kutuhin like those long-haired effeminate Chinese they called F4? Example here in this trash of a TV show called “Meteor Garden”. The girl rented a large sign board to place a sign telling her feelings for the leading creep. Now, why can’t the guy do that for the girl in the first place? Maybe they are too in love with themselves to notice the girl. On the other hand, there are movies, especially western movies, were the leading men, take their desirability because they are great business men, scholarly professors, inventors and the likes that had little time for their wives and female lovers. From these movies, scenes that show these very busy and exceptional men submerged in pressing things like, business growth or radical mathematical equations. Then here comes his better half , girl friend or female lover who does nothing but embrace him from behind and try to entice him to go to bed with her as if that’s the only good thing she could do! What kind of movies are these, showing girls only good for sex, but the male character are exceptional leaders of society? Is this what some women justify as being “liberated”?

Because of these media hype, the Filipina are losing her “magic touch” and are now being replaced by trashy girls who hang around in malls, internet cafes, and sleazy movie theaters. Today, just to be noticed, modern day Filipinas tend to be noisy, talkative with their squeaky voice, rivaling the screaming faggots, to flirt around their crushes. NGIIIEEE!!!

Just thinking of it, makes me puke!

Today, men collect girls, cheaper by the dozen. Gone are the days of women where being courted and respected. Now you can pull them by the hair to the nearest motel, use them and discard them like candy wrappers. Another lust satisfied, and then calls it a day. I had friends, showing off how many women did they conquered. I don’t find it amusing.

I’ve heard news, about the famous dolls Barbie and Ken; after a long separation, Ken is trying to win Barbie back. Mabuti pa yung mga manikang iyan. At least here we see a man, trying to win back a woman’s heart. But here in the Philippines, women are just being collected like lifeless dolls. And as I notice, Filipina women seem to agree with the situation. Oh MY PAPAYA!!! Have they gone insane? Have they loosed their sense of pride and self respect?!?

I still believe that somewhere in the nooks and crannies of this decadent Philippine society, a woman with pride and dignity just like the old days, still exist. I just hope that whoever she is, dumami pa sana ang katulad niya…

…At twing umuulan ay kapiling ka….

Pinoy Atheist