It's a beautiful day to be a woman....

Ok..... I woke up this morning with serious menstral cramps and before this morning, I have had some huge and quite annoying pimples in their multiples, might I add, on my face and chest area...... And guess what? My period still hasn't come it's a few days away! Oh! and might I add my breasts feel really sore and my tummy has felt bloated for about 3 days. 

That being said....as aware as I am at the moment, of the difficulty of being a woman, I can't but say it is still a beautiful day to be a woman! 

Let me tell you why.

Just as I stood, contemplating my life's woes, my 8 year old daughter comes into my room and says "Mummy, do you still need a massage"?! She looks at me for a few seconds and says "thank you for breakfast mum". I smile and say, "you are welcome baby!" As she leaves to get her stuff for school, my 3 year old daughter rushes in, hugs my legs from behind and says "mummy I love you!"

....these were the sweet sweet words I heard this morning that needed no prompting and guess what? only because I am a woman can I be called the sweetest name, Mummy! 

So I dare say....despite the soreness and heaviness and pain, being a woman ROCKS!

Signed:

The Super Hero Mum

Shake it to Sell it?....

This  morning, I woke up with the need to voice out something. 

For a while I have been quiet because I was scared of what the thing I say, would cost me. Then I remembered that, as a woman, anything I say would cost me in one way or the other. So I better talk if I want to or be quiet if I am scared of the consequences.

So, I will first vent about music videos, yes! Music videos. The way women are projected in them. In most, all the women do is shake,shake,shake and shake!!!!!! These girls are objectified and portrayed as objects of sexual gratification.

Some may say they are dancers...Please! what kind dance, can't be done in cloths? The musicians, are fully dressed, sometimes even wearing a shirt,a jacket and chains. 

I am not saying that featuring women if music videos is wrong, oh! No. I love the drama in videos, especially when when beautiful girls dramatise the song. In fact I look forward to a video, once I love a song...I am eager to see how the musician and whatever video director he chooses, will interpret the song and make it come to life visually. But what I do not support is women going naked in the videos...and to think some music video directors have been heard saying 'if it ain't shaking, it ain't selling' ...SMH

Enough venting for today, till next time.

Yours sincerely 

Concerned citizen.

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