Rosemary talks about being progressive and moving away from what she sees as terrible sexist western culture. Bye bye beauty contests, Dart girls, Formula 1 girls etc
Then next paragraph she says it is not only OK but that it should be allowed to happen that the sexist islamic culture be given priority over normal NZ'ers at the pool in Porirua.
Make your mind up Rosemary: are you for or against sexist cultures? or are you actually motivated by something else?
Hmmmm
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104523104/well-do...
Here's an interesting opinion piece written by a woman in a management role, struggling to find her identity to some degree, and finding herself comparing herself to men, and the way she was bought up etc.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/104020694/im-ho...
I think that's a really good, honest article, where she explains how she feels about things, why she feels a little bit foreign in her current role and where that is coming from, and it also has a great ending about how she's going to empower herself and move forward from here. The anecdotal stuff about her childhood is really interesting too, the way males and females were expected to behave as children when she was young i.e. completely different expectations.
I'm not sure what conclusions to make out of it, but just thought it was a really refreshing, honest, neutral piece, that stayed far away from the usual crap you get in these opinion pieces, where it's basically mud-slinging between s*xes.
I particularly liked the sentence that had a reference link for every comment, very witty;
"Advice comes thick and fast: Be more like men. Be less like men. Be like men, but only sometimes. Be like men, but only if the moon is in Taurus and you saw a sparrow before 9am on Tuesday. But most importantly, never, ever be like men."