In case you haven't noticed christmas is coming nearer. I've noticed and still haven't bought the necessary christmas gifts. For some this also means that a holiday is coming. For everybody else but me. It's thesis time and thesis time does not equal holiday. Or weekend.
Now the challenge arising is making my mother understand why I'm not going to be the super helpful christmas elf!
tirsdag den 15. december 2009
fredag den 6. november 2009
Straight
I am 24. Still I’m treated like a child. Not by my parents, nor by my friends but by “the big mother”: the state. Because she thinks it is necessary to smother me in care in the form of rules and guidelines to keep on the right track, because the adults know better.
I have to hurry up and finish my education, no detours. I should stay healthy and eat properly, lots of vegetables, less meat, no sugar, no fast food. I should be sensible and not drink more than five units on one evening, and get up next morning, hangoverfree, and go for a run. I should have the children as soon as possible, preferably three, and send them to the nursery and go to work. I should buy organic products and bike to work.
I am 24, and I can handle it myself. Maybe “the big mother” doesn’t think so, but I know what consequences my actions have, and I’d love to take them. I’d love to decide myself how much I should weigh, if I do fitness or get hammered Saturday night.
Why is the new happiness, the ultimate goal, to become 100 years old? When did a good life become a long life? Why is it wrong to smoke and be overweight? People are classified as wrong or right. Other people decide what a good life is looking at statistics and scientific studies.
And all this can be done without protests because it is for the common good, men when did politicians become so omniscient that they can figure out how I get a good life? Everything is planned for the citizens, just shut up and do what you’re told. That’s how they raised children 50 years ago. But people are not children, and they are not stupid. As a result they shouldn’t be treated as such on pretext of getting a better life. We ourselves decide how we want to life our live, otherwise living in a democracy is useless.
For all danish readers: the danish version can be found on jp.dk.
torsdag den 22. oktober 2009
Skinny
A lot of things are happening in the fashion industry these days. It seems a rebellion is in the making, a rebellion against the picture of the perfect model, the perfect woman.
The german women's magazine, Brigitte, now only wants to use normal women in their editorials and articles. Also Ralph Lauren is being critisised for photoshopping an already very slim model even slimmer.
Generally I appreciate that attention is being drawn to the unrealistic expectations to women set by the fashion industry. Nobody can look like Jennifer Aniston on a magazine cover, not even Jennifer Aniston herself.
On the other hand modelling is a job and a model can offer more than a normal girl, simply because it's her job and what's she's good at. But models can be good models even if they are not 175 cm tall and weighs 50 kg. If I understand everything correctly being pretty as a model is not enough, you also need charisma and a whole lot of talent. So theoretically any girl with the right personal qualities should be able to do the job.
Let's hope all of this fuss can help give a more diverse picture of women.
The german women's magazine, Brigitte, now only wants to use normal women in their editorials and articles. Also Ralph Lauren is being critisised for photoshopping an already very slim model even slimmer.
Generally I appreciate that attention is being drawn to the unrealistic expectations to women set by the fashion industry. Nobody can look like Jennifer Aniston on a magazine cover, not even Jennifer Aniston herself.
On the other hand modelling is a job and a model can offer more than a normal girl, simply because it's her job and what's she's good at. But models can be good models even if they are not 175 cm tall and weighs 50 kg. If I understand everything correctly being pretty as a model is not enough, you also need charisma and a whole lot of talent. So theoretically any girl with the right personal qualities should be able to do the job.
Let's hope all of this fuss can help give a more diverse picture of women.
søndag den 18. oktober 2009
mandag den 12. oktober 2009
tirsdag den 6. oktober 2009
Journalism?
Today my (free!) newpaper came through the letter box as usual. And as usual I sit down with my breakfast and the newspaper and look forward to skimming through the news of today.
But today there were no news. In stead I found myself confronted with a two-faced newspaper, imagining what the paper would look lige 50 years from now. The one end fantasising about the consequences if we do not reduce the emission of CO2 and the other imagining a world where we have done nothing.
Since I'm what they call "climate-denier" I find this somewhat offensive. I wasn't able to read these actually quite well-written articles because they lack any self-criticism what so ever!
This brings me to my biggest problem. I want to write something about this theme but I can't find articles that are critical towards human induced climate change.
Can anyone help me???
But today there were no news. In stead I found myself confronted with a two-faced newspaper, imagining what the paper would look lige 50 years from now. The one end fantasising about the consequences if we do not reduce the emission of CO2 and the other imagining a world where we have done nothing.
Since I'm what they call "climate-denier" I find this somewhat offensive. I wasn't able to read these actually quite well-written articles because they lack any self-criticism what so ever!
This brings me to my biggest problem. I want to write something about this theme but I can't find articles that are critical towards human induced climate change.
Can anyone help me???
fredag den 2. oktober 2009
Good ideas??
I love my radios, i really, really love my radios. They are spread all through my appartment and turned on all the time. And they are all tuned in on the same station: 92,6, P3.
This great, public youth-radiostation has almost monopolized the FM-area, and almost every person under 30 listens to P3.
But at this moment a new media-settlement is being discussed. In their eagerness to promote commercial radiostations, which have all been going bankrupt, one of the suggestions is to commercialize P3!!
I can only say that I'm horrified. The reason everybody listens to P3 is that it is actualy good. As a atter of fact this radiostation is the only success the public media cooperation DR can present. So why fix what wasn't broken in the first place?
The fear is that since DR is funded by the state, and hence taxpayed, it is favored compared to commercial news services since every service from DR is free. So no advertisement in the middle of a movie, free online news and so on.
I do see the problem but riuning the only well-functioning part of this enterprise serves no one. Least of all the listeners who by the way are also taxpayers.
This great, public youth-radiostation has almost monopolized the FM-area, and almost every person under 30 listens to P3.
But at this moment a new media-settlement is being discussed. In their eagerness to promote commercial radiostations, which have all been going bankrupt, one of the suggestions is to commercialize P3!!
I can only say that I'm horrified. The reason everybody listens to P3 is that it is actualy good. As a atter of fact this radiostation is the only success the public media cooperation DR can present. So why fix what wasn't broken in the first place?
The fear is that since DR is funded by the state, and hence taxpayed, it is favored compared to commercial news services since every service from DR is free. So no advertisement in the middle of a movie, free online news and so on.
I do see the problem but riuning the only well-functioning part of this enterprise serves no one. Least of all the listeners who by the way are also taxpayers.
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