Greetings all,
I'm not joining in the politcal & military debate on the announcement this week that they are opening up the final few jobs in arms corps - to women - enabling them to fight on the front line. I grew up with a father in the Navy who loved his daughters but wrote papers on why women shouldn't be on submarines & encouraged my brothers not to join the military. Let me just add in that he met my mother when she was in the Women's Royal English Navy. It was also another time, era, way of life. Anyway, we were certainly raised to debate, at length, anything & everything in my family!! We were all highly educated & if we had an opinion, we had to back ourselves.
My idea of women on the front line, was & still is - we wives who are left at home to run the family. There is a saying "if the military wanted you to have a family, they would have issued you with one". I watched my mother change belts on broken vacuum cleaners, fix washers on dripping taps, pump or replace flat tyres on bikes or cars & clear the roof gutters (she didn't like heights). Mum set a great example of how to "mend & make do", never complained & invested in her husband's career. No wonder i cruised into the role of military wife so easily.
My idea of women on the front line, was & still is - we wives who are left at home to run the family. There is a saying "if the military wanted you to have a family, they would have issued you with one". I watched my mother change belts on broken vacuum cleaners, fix washers on dripping taps, pump or replace flat tyres on bikes or cars & clear the roof gutters (she didn't like heights). Mum set a great example of how to "mend & make do", never complained & invested in her husband's career. No wonder i cruised into the role of military wife so easily.
I have to do all things engine oil, mowing lawns & fixing/ replacing/ changing too . . . like this incident which i faced on Saturday afternoon in my son's bedroom.
So off i went to the hardware store to purchase a tack hammer & tacks, something light to bang these planks into place. Want female inequality, go to a hardware store, most of the men there assume all women are idiots.
Is my son the only boy on earth who doesn't have a single piece of Lego, puzzle or stray sock under his bed??
Is my son the only boy on earth who doesn't have a single piece of Lego, puzzle or stray sock under his bed??
So, $11 & 30 minutes later, da dah, my son's 6 month old bed is fixed. I was thinking, gosh, shoddy workmanship, this cost a fortune & i want this bed frame to last 10 years, how did it fall apart so easily when the girls' beds are all fine??
I made his bed up & tucked him in. He asked if i'd take some photos in the dark - now i know what he gets up to at night, a bit of bed trampolining, still, aged 7!!
As for heated debates on work place relations & what women can do in the military, it requires so much more thought & discussion. Hello, we've had 5 different pathetic, weak, male Defence Ministers in 12 months, maybe start with appointing a tenacious, strong, female Defence Minister there or at least some consistency?? Top down people. Love Posie
