Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Chance of Women


If we take our children to créches, we are terrible mothers,
If we stay at home, we ruin ourselves behind the saucepan.

If we use Make- up, we wear war- drawings,
If we don’t use Make- up, we don’t care about ourselves.


If we work in a low job, we’ve got no ambition,
If we have got a  good job, we are married with our job.

If we had promoted, we have to do our doctor ourselves,

If we show feelings, we are weak women,
but if we are controlled, we are ice glaciers.

If we are helpful, people abuse us,
and if we only care for our own job, we are egoistic.

Are we attractive, so we keep our (male) colleagues away from work,
are we not attractive, so nobody cares for us.

If we are power- women, people  swear about us, and call us idiotic feminists,
when we are adapted, we miss the ‘pepper’.

If we are intelligent, we mustn’t show it,
And if we are not, we have to be at least attractive.

If we go to work with flu, we infect our (male) colleagues,
but if we don’t go to work with flu, we are lazy, and lie down because of every little thing.

If we wear ‘mini’ we disturb the peace, (or we are bitches),
if we wear ‘maxi’ we already have got stuff path (or we are frigide).

If we are tired on Mondays, people gossip,
If we are not tired, they gossip also.

If we like to go out, we are party girls,
If we stay at home, we are boring and uninteresting.

If we like to drink, it is not allright.
If we drink nothing, we are weak and boring.

If we work a lot, we lose charm,
If we work little, we lose our job.

No matter how we will do it, we will do it wrong- or we can do however we want it!

And we should do what we want!

(This is no advertisment for the any gun company :P )

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Monday, February 12, 2007

Abortion (med: Interruptio)

Today I’m going to talk about a quite serious and often discussed topic: Abortion

I won’t talk about the methods of abortion itself, but about the ethnical thoughts and often discussed issues. I know that there are different thoughts about this, there is always the question if it is killing a life or not. If a woman is free to decide this herself or not. We discussed this in our religion lessons. At first, as mostly in discussions, I just listened to find out what the others think about, before I put in my own opinion. After I listened to my classmates for a while, I found out that I seem to be one of the less people who think that abortion is okay under some conditions. I think if I would have mentioned this in my class they would have killed me with views.

There are always some very discussed issues which I will present short:

1st: when or if the Embryo (greek: unborn being) is a human being and has got the right to live (ethnical reasons)

2nd: how do work with the collisions of the rights of both: woman and embryo (if there is a collision)

3rd: How a pregnancy effects on the freedom of choice of a woman

4th: Who is allowed to decide over the right of a child? The woman? Or any other social organisation like Doctors or judgements.

5th: If abortion is punishable, will less women get rid of their babies? Or how much women would try to get rid of their babies illegally? Would this have big follows, like complications or death?

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To the first:

It is very difficult for us to say how soon an unborn baby is able to have feelings. Fact is, that an embryo developes blood in the first 4 weeks and from the 4th week on there is a blood circulation and also a heart beat. I’ve read some studies about this and some doctors say, that the brain is not ready developed and so the baby is not able to feel pain, or to realize this. I really don’t know if this is true, I just can tell what I’ve read. It is difficult to say when an unborn baby has got a right to live.

People from church say, that this is from the time on when it is made, but the law in Austria is like this, that an abortion is NOT punishable in the first three months or pregnancy, if the baby will be handicapped, if the women would get damages or if the women got pregnant before she is 14. No doctor has got a duty to make an abortion, nobody is allowed to force him to do it, except there is a danger to the life of the pregnant woman.

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To the second:

What if the law would be like this, that unborn babies have got a right to live, no matter how much developed they are? Well, some would say: then all problems would be soluted, and this is the right way. But what is with the women who have to carry out their babies? Who have to born them? Who have to bring them up? It is THEIR belly. What is with THEIR right to decide over their belly?

Some people, specially of church and of some special organisations (which names I won’t say now) try to decide over women’s heads, when they say that abortion shall be forbidden. They care just about the babies rights, their religious right, but not about the right of the women.

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To the third:

How shall a pregnancy effect on the freedome of choice of a woman? Do some people think that women get mad as soon they are pregnant? That they don’t have a clear head anymore? I think in such a situation, of a not wanted pregnacy you see very well the future in front of you. You see difficulties, problems, probably you have no idea how to get a good education, a job or to bring up the child. I am sure every woman is able to decide what she wants if she is pregnant, and she is for sure also clear in her head then- because how else could we risk to let the babies in women’s hands?

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To the fourth:

Are judgements or doctors allowed to decide about a man’s penis and when he is allowed to use it? You find this question ridicolous? Okay, why do some people then not accept that nobody is allowed to decide about a woman’s belly? For us it is really difficult to say when a baby gets its right to live. We just can’t say it. But how shall be anybody allowed to judge about a woman, to decide about her body?

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To the fifth:

My opinion is, that forbidding abortion would help completely nothing. It already was forbidden in past, but then the women got rid of their babies theirselves, or the went to so- called ‘angel makers’ (mostly women who were midwiferys, who made the babies to ‘angels’), usually under really bad conditions. Many women died at the try to get ex- pregnant, or were heavily damaged. In nowadays they probably would just go to the Neatherlands or to Spain to make an abortion, even if it is a far way- or just do it themselves with ropes and knitting needles, like in fromer times. It would be better to make the support for young women better, who get not planned pregnant. In general I am for that, that women keep their babies, because I am for the life, but in some cases this also doesn’t help. In some cases girls and women just don’t want to get a baby- and then abortion must be allowed. Because should there be two unhappy souls instead of one?

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The religion in this case:

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Muslims:

In Islam are different views to abortion. In general they are against killing of unborn life. The Koran divides the development in a mother’s belly in three different phases. When you believe the prophet Mohammed, then every of this phases is 40 days long. As the tradition says, the baby gets its soul from an angel on the 120th day of pregnancy. Others say this already happens after 40 days. After the opinions of some ‘more taught’ men it is allowed to make abortion if the mother has to suffer physically or in soul. In the last 20 years some wise men also allowed the abortion when the embryo is handicapped or made because of a rape. But others also say, that the unborn baby is a part of the female body and this body belongs to Allah, so nobody is allowed to kill it. After the 120th day abortion is forbidden, except the birth dangers for sure the life of the mother.

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Christians (There were so many things also of former times, but I wil just use the one of new age):

In 1869 pope Pius IX made a general forbiding of abortion and said that the child gets already its soul when it is made. In ‘Gaudium et Spes’, written during the II. Concil of Vatican stands: “God, master of life, gave the human beings the high work to keep the live on earth. So we have to keep it with high care. Abortion and killing of a child is a terrible misdeed.” And pope John Paul II. said in the enzyclica ‘Evangelium vitae’ this: “with the authority which Christ and Saint Peter gave me, I tell to the community [...] that direct and wanted abortion is always a terrible misdeed, because it is the wanted killing of a human being. [...]

The catholic church says also, that every woman who makes an abortion, and every other human being who helps at an abortion must be excommunicated (thrown out of church).

In the orthodox church they insist that fathers of the church saw abortion always as sin.

Many protestant theoligicans (like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth) always were against abortion.

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Think about it, make your own opinion about this all and leave me a comment. Just one last sentence:

Did you recognize, that all those ‘intelligent’ religious decicions were made by

 

MEN?

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Saturday, January 6, 2007

Rallye Dakar

(former: Rallye Paris- Dakar)

The Rallye Dakar is without doubt one of the most famous and also dangerous (probably the most dangerous) (Desert-) Rallyes on the whole world. Since 1979 is this motorsport- offroad race made, mainly on the african continent. The event is always at the beginning of the year. This time it will start at 6th of January in Lissabon and it will finish at the 21th of January in Dakar.

The french man Thierry Sabine was the one who made and owned the Rallye Paris- Dakar, but in 1986 he died on a helicopter accident during the Rallye. His father took over the Rallye for some years, but sold it then to the ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation), which is making the Rallye till nowadays.

In contraditiction to the usual Rallye world Championships (WRC= World Rallye Car) that there are not short challenges, but long ones, sometimes till to 800 kilometres at once. Of course this is quite exhausting and can need a lot of time, because of that there are some time limits, in which the people have to take the challenges. The cars usually have to be repaired from their own drivers (of they are private) or from the team, but they have just a short amount of time for that, specially when they drivers reach their day finish deep in the night. The result is: less time for sleep, less time for repairing. Mostly 50% of the cars and also motorbikes fall out during the race and never reach Dakar.

First the Rallye was between the french Paris and Dakar in Senegal, but now the race routes are changing from year to year. The Rallye of 2006 leaded in 17 challegnes from Lissabon (Portugal) over Spain, Marokko, Western-Sahara, Mauretain, Mali,Guinea (since1996) and Senegal to the finish Dakar.

Because of the big amount of deathly accidents at racers, audience and the organisation team the race always got back into the headlines, but even of that (or exactly because of that) the Rallye became to one of the most famous sport events world wide. Since it exists the Rallye caused 51 human lives so far. At the Dakar 2006 died the australian Motorcycler Andy Caldecott and 2 young people of the audience. Because of that they didn’t measuer the time of the last race day in 2006.

The Record winner of the Rallye Dakar is the french Stephane Peterhansel, who won alltogether 6 times on the motorbike in the 90ies and in 2004 he won his first race in a car as well. Next to him is Hubert Auriol the only one who was able to win the race at two (1981, 1983) and also four tyres (1992). The most successful driver is the finn Ari Vatanen, who had 4 victories between 1987 and 1991. In the year of 2001 the german woman Jutta Kleinschmidt made a sensation: She was able to win the Rallye- Dakar as first woman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All winners of the Rallye Dakar (car):

1979: Genestier (CIV), Range Rover

1980: Freddy Kottulinsky (S), VW

1981: René Metge (F), Range Rover

1982: Claude Marreau (F), Renault

1983: Jacky Ickx (B), Mercedes-Benz

1984: René Metge (F), Porsche

1985: Patrick Zaniroli (F), Mitsubishi

1986 : René Metge (F), Porsche

1987: Ari Vatanen (FIN), Peugeot

1988: Ari Vatanen (FIN), Peugeot

1989: Ari Vatanen (FIN), Peugeot

1990: Ari Vatanen (FIN), Peugeot

1991: Ari Vatanen (FIN), Citroën

1992: Hubert Auriol (F), Mitsubishi

1993: Bruno Saby (F), Mitsubishi

1994: Pierre Lartigue (F), Citroën

1995: Pierre Lartigue (F), Citroën

1996: Pierre Lartigue (F), Citroën

1997: Kenjiro Shinozuka (J), Mitsubishi

1998: Jean-Pierre Fontenay (F), Mitsubishi

1999: Jean-Louis Schlesser (F), Renault-Buggy

2000: Jean-Louis Schlesser (F), Renault-Buggy

2001: Jutta Kleinschmidt (D), Mitsubishi

2002: Hiro Masuoka (J), Mitsubishi

2003: Hiro Masuoka (J), Mitsubishi

2004: Stephane Peterhansel (F), Mitsubishi

2005: Stephane Peterhansel (F), Mitsubishi

2006: Luc Alphand (F), Mitsubishi

Motorbike:

1979: Cyril Neveu (F), Yamaha XT 500

1980: Cyril Neveu (F), Yamaha XT 500

1981: Hubert Auriol (F), BMW

1982: Cyril Neveu (F), Honda

1983: Hubert Auriol (F), BMW

1984: Gaston Rahier (B), BMW

1985: Gaston Rahier (B), BMW

1986: Cyril Neveu (F), Honda

1987: Cyril Neveu (F), Honda

1988: Edi Orioli (I), Yamaha

1989: Gilles Lalay (F), Honda

1990: Edi Orioli (I), Yamaha

1991: Stephane Peterhansel (F), Yamaha

1992: Stephane Peterhansel (F), Yamaha

1993: Stephane Peterhansel (F), Yamaha

1994: Edi Orioli (I), Yamaha

1995: Stephane Peterhansel (F), Yamaha

1996: Edi Orioli (I), Yamaha

1997: Stephane Peterhansel (F), Yamaha

1998: Stephane Peterhansel (F), Yamaha

1999: Richard Sainct (F), KTM

2000: Richard Sainct (F), KTM

2001: Fabrizio Meoni (I), KTM

2002: Fabrizio Meoni (I), KTM

2003: Richard Sainct (F), KTM

2004: Nani Roma (E), KTM

2005: Cyril Despres (F), KTM

2006: Marc Coma (E), KTM

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Links:

Dakar:

http://www.dakar.com

Thierry Sabine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Thierry_Sabine

Jutta Kleinschmidt:

http://www.jutta-kleinschmidt.de

Stéphane Peterhansel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stéphane_Peterhansel

Ari Vatanen:

http://www.arivatanen.com/

 

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Thursday, October 12, 2006

About women…

 

A story of Sibylle Rapp

The first time in my life when i got angry was short after i saw the light of the world for the first time and the doctor had told my mother with a nice smile that her third born child was a girl. Unfortunately i could’t change my chromosome- sentence, so i decided to take the challenges which would be in my life because of my gender softly but surely away. My first putting away i started in the age of two, when i threw my doll out of the window to play with the little red car of my brother. I was surprised, because my brother liked this poor raped doll with the golden velvet hair so much, that he took it back into the children’s room for using it himself.

Because fortunately the old view that women shall stay at home and work in the household, because boys can’t or don’t want to do this was thrown away by my older sister per some good arguments i had no problems in this case.

But for this they were in school when out chemistry teacher told at the cooking of water- not out of provocation but of believing- that now the girls should pay attention, because we should be able to make some coffee later. Then they told us in history lessons that in article 3 of the basic law stands: “Being equal in front of the law- women are same equal.” Of course this seemed to me very right, specially after i read in the job- information- book of the abroad office that women have almost no chances to be taken…

 

chemistry?

 

 

After i passed with glourious marks my a- levels i went to the abroad- office to ask for work. They didn’t take me with the argumentation that a very expensive education for me has no sense, because one day i will marry anyway, get children and then i will stand till my live end in the kitchen. So i decided for a work at a bank and studies BWL [something with company business].

After I went to a very well known company a

nd they were sure of my good qualifications they took me, but even after years of good working i never got a leading position, because it would not be good for the psychological climate of the company. Next to that a man has no respect of a female boss.

So I had one day no other chance than to marry, to get children and to think in my kitchen why our men- leaded country is so proud of its basic laws…

 

 

 

 

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