Yesterday brought news of an elderly man beaten to death by the husband of a politician. According to the murderer, his victim couldn’t produce an identity and was suspected to be a Muslim. This was horrendous on every level. I made me think of the song, ‘What The World Needs…
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Expectations
Expectations – how they weigh us down! We, women seem to suffer the weight of them even more. Do you agree? This week’s #SundaySentence is a quote from one of my favourite authors. “Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations…
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What Stereotype Do You Hold Of Yourself ?
What is a stereotype? The Oxford dictionary describes it as : Stereotype: A widely held but fixed over simplified image or idea of a particular person We all hold stereotypes of others. In snap judgements we decide whether someone is beautiful, handsome, evil, kind, based on our stereotyping of what…