IWD

Friday evening and its 21.51.Masi time, packet of Right ultra and the laptop.
Been a long week.
Conversation today at work covered "International Womans Day"...My working partner admitted to have taken out (read forced..) his girlfriend out to celebrate IWD.
I laughed. I'd discussed this subject the previous day with another proud celebrator of IWD.
I asked;
"so, when is International Mens day"?
to which I got,
"Every other day!"
Well this made me ponder and pose the question,
"so your celebrating a day that we "men" have decided to patronise you with, by actually giving you one day in the year with a title...and that is a celebration?"...

I mean, somebody MUST be taking the piss or what??

Sweden has always appeared to be a leading country of the world when it comes to womans equality.It is also the very same country that invented the male Metrosexual and the first official mens makeup store was opened in Malmö. Enough said on that subject.
Even the smell of mens sports dressing rooms have changed from liniment to hair gel and when guys start looking for a socket in the wall for their journeyman hairdryer..bloody hell
But makeup..shaving yourself downstairs and keeping trim, ok.But Makeup.
And the worst thing about it is that I hear the local lassies arguing the point that its okay if a man takes care of himself..."makeup"..err...NO!!! NO!! No!!
People seem to have also forgotten the biggest failure EVER made by H&M..remember the Man Skirt...yes indeed, And I will admit to actually knowing a rather large Rugby player who was also a web designer mention that he wore one to work....
SKIRTS, MAKEUP and a travelbag for HAIRSTYLE!! I reckon I now understand International womans day. We haven't actually given them a day at all, its for all the metrosexuals to get their kit on and show off their feminism..

However, despite living in a country where its quite obvious who wears the long pants it is released now and again in the papers that Swedish woman do in fact have a preference for Biker types, builders and basically good old fashioned men.So basically still enjoy a bit of sweat and rough, thank frikk for that!Otherwise I'd be down to Top shop for pop socks, a mini and then some kanebo mascara and spot remover...

Changing the subject but keeping line with the abuse, tomorrow evening is possibly the best summary of the attitude and culture (to generalise of course now that Bingo Lotto has gone down the tubes..) as its the Melodifestival final!!!
That's right, millions of people will be sitting infront of Shlagerpop shite and making a huge effort to make a memory of it. The front of the newspapers have hyped up this day of mourning for the past months, pages and pages on shit whilst countries around the world have civil wars and Iran announce they're pleased about their nuclear possibilities..We get "Uggla humiliated" on the front page or "Linda can't sing but has huge breasts"..
Right there, right now.A tradition.
Like Kalle Anka every year at 15.00 on christmas day we have the tradition of Melodifestival finalen.

So for Metrosexuals tomorrow is the ultimate. Shlager, skirts and makeup and a huge party to show off their latest hair style and designer mens bra...

jeez

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