MANIC MONDAY - INDEPENDENCE

Pookie is very independent and can be quite snob too, look at her face

There are still people who consider women to be inferior to, or less than, men. The view that women were weak was passed on from one generation to the next. However, some ancient civilizations knew powerful women. For example, Queen Hatshepsut ruled Egypt as a mighty pharaoh in the 15th century BC.

It was quite a hard work for women to get their independence from men. Not very long ago, unmarried women were not considered very well and also depended very often from their family. Since women work, make carrier in all domains even in politics she has acquired her independence too.

The reason that there are so many divorces in the past 50 years results from the fact that more and more women were working, earned their own money and didn't depend from their husbands anymore. If something went wrong, she could divorce because she had the independence for that.

In the generation before a woman had no choice, she had to stay with her husband, even if he was a monster because she had no means to live of her own. She would have to ask her family to support her but not all families were ready to do so and most of the time the woman didn't say anything because of the shame she would bring over her family. A divorced woman was an outsider exactly like a woman with a child and no husband.

Fortunately this has changed a lot and today a woman if she wants to is as free as a man at least in our western world. Theoretically, because in real life it looks sometimes very different.

When I was child and grew up I realized with the time how dependent my mother was from my father. She had nothing of her own and he even gave her pocket money ! She didn't know how to fill in a check or pay per credit card (she didn't have one either), she couldn't drive, he would never have allowed this, in short she would have been unable to exist of her own. He told her this on each and every occasion, that without him she was nothing.

This influenced my character for the rest of my life. Never ever I wanted to be dependent on a man I swore to myself. And that's what I did. I lived my life after my rules and didn't care about what women should do or not. I had my financial independence and therefore my freedom. Maybe I was critized for that especially when I wasn't married yet, but I didn't care. And one thing is for sure I never ever regretted one thing what I have lived in the past.

And as a conclusion it is sad to say but real independence and real freedom you can only get when you have money !