We live in a screwed up world!

Extract taken from age article about interviews conducted with men who use prostitutes:

Nonetheless, most men said they viewed their interaction with prostitutes as a business contract in which payment entitles them to treat the women any way they like. Women surrender the right to say no to anything once they accept a customer's money, many said.

"Prostitutes are a product, like cereal," said one man. "You go to the grocery, pick the brand you want, and pay for it. It's business."

Female friendly films*

Here it is as promised, my only question is where do I put it? I was thinking about putting in on my sidebar but it's much longer than I anticipated. It's made up mostly of your suggestions. S0 feel free to advise me of any that I have missed.

• A League of Their Own (1992)
• A Month in the Country
• A Walk on the Moon (1999)
• Adam's Rib (1949)
• All About Eve (1950)
• All About My Mother (1999)
• Amelie
  
• Amy's O (2002)
• Antonia's Line (1995)
• Beaches (1988)
• Being Julia (2004)
• Belle de jour
• Belleville Rendez-Vous (U.S. Title: the Triplets of Belleville)
• Better Than Chocolate (1999)
• Born in Flames
• Boys on the Side
• Bridget Jones's Diary
• Bubble (2005)
• But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
• Calendar Girls (2003)
• Carol's Journey (2002)
  
• Citizen Ruth (1996)
• Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
• Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
• Foxes (1980)
• Frida (2002)
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Ghost World (2001)
• Ginger Snaps (2000)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)
• Gloomy Sunday (1999)
• Gone With the Wind
• Handmaid's Tale
• Heathers (1989)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
• High Art
• Iris (2001)
• Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
• Jawbreaker (1999)
• Julia (1977)
  
• Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)
• Last Night (1998)
• Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
• Little Women (1994)
• Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000)
• Lolita (1962)
• Ma Vie En Rose (1997)
• Maria Full of Grace (2004)
• Mermaids (1990)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Miss Congeniality
• Monsoon Wedding (2001)
• Moonstruck
• Muriel's Wedding (1994)
• My summer of Love (2004)
  
• Nana (2005)
  
• Next Stop Wonderland (1998)
• Nights of Cabiria (1957)
• Nine to Five (1980)
• Norma Rae (1979)
• North Country (2005)
• One True Thing
• Osama (2003)
• Persona (1967)
• Polish Wedding (1998)
• Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
• Queen Christina
• Queen Margot (1994)
• Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
• Real Women Have Curves (2002)
• Room with a View
• Ruby in Paradise
• Saved! (2004)
• Saving face (2004)
• Scenes from a Marriage (1974)
• Secret and Lies
• Secretary (2002)
• Sex and Lucia (2002)
• Sexual Dependency (2003)
• Silkwood
• Something's Gotta Give
• Sophie's Choice (1982)
• Starstruck (1982)
• Steel Magnolias (1989)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• The Accused
• The Hours (2002)
• The Joy Luck Club (1993)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
• The Philadelphia Story
• The Piano
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
• The Stepford Wives (1975)
• The Stepmother
• The Terminator
• The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
• The Women (1939)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• Rebecca
• Times Square (1980)
• Tipping the Velvet (2002)
• Transamerica (2005)
• Vagina Monologues: Eve Ensler (2002)
• Vera Drake (2004)
• Victor / Victoria (1982)
• Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
• Whale Rider (2003)
• While You Were Sleeping
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• Woman of the Year (1942)
• 10 things I hate about you
• 301/302 (1995)

*disclaimer: I can't guarantee that you will enjoy any of the films.

Me=Bad

I've been thinking all week that I will post about women's issues particularly issues about women's rights around the world or events for international women's day but there I go just posting about food again.

It's been pretty quite in the event front except for North cote social club hosting a special night with all female musicians called 'play like a girl'. But that's too late now. :-(

So instead I can direct to you other great blogs:
Richie writes a great response here about privilege in the same line as Andrea's post at Official Shrub.

Another great unrelated post over at Feminist, unmodified on a comment on 'young feminists' versus 'feminists of previous generations'.

The initial comment about femininity has been kind of niggling away at me. Mr T and I got into a kind of unusual argument the other day. He was arguing that he doesn't understand why I bother with traditional hair removal (I shave my underarms, legs, and pluck my eyebrows). While I agree with him that it's not fair that women are expected to remove all of that hair while men are not expected to. Whatever way you look at it, is unnecessary and well just not fair. Why is it gross on a woman but not a man? While I understand this inequality, I am so socially conditioned that I can't break through with leaving hair because I hate the idea of someone thinking of me as 'gross' and well I have heard those terms too often in response to female underarm or leg hair. Don't get me wrong when I see other women with underarm hair or whatever I am not grossed out instead I want to say 'good on you'. I just can't seem to do it myself. Mr T said 'if he was a female he simply wouldn't remove the hair' to which I was quite annoyed with because it is simply unfair for him to make that remark as a man. It's like me saying 'If I was Asian I would argue with my parents' or 'If I was in a relationship with another woman I would show public displays of affection everywhere'. It's very easy to sit there from another side and argue 'if....' but let's face it you really don't know what it's like til you have experienced it and dominant culture is quite powerful.

Ok it's not much for a women's day post but better than nothing.