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On women and computers

Fourteenth day of "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  [13+]

It is often said that history is written by the victorious. How true (or otherwise) do you believe this to be and why.

To my honest opinion history is written by the white males of this world. In history books and throughout school one is taught about male philosophy, science and general facts. Women, black people, minority groups etc. are left out or marginalized. Only recently this is changing.

Marilyn French, a feminist author, wrote a magnificent book about this From Eve till Dawn, a history of women in the world (volume 1 to 4). I have not read it yet, but when I do it will prove a totally new outlook on the history of mankind.

In Aristotle's thought, French says, women were "deformed" men. In feudal Japan they were barred from climbing Mount Fuji because they would pollute it, and "unhappily married women were expected to commit suicide." A Buddhist text describes woman as the "emissary of hell." Her oppression is universal, her story cyclical; construed less as a human being than as an animal or force of nature, her place is outside history.(Hilary Mantel).

Fortunately this is changing in our present days, but for women to have their righteous place next to men in history and in our modern times is still a long way to go.

Prompt: collect moments, not things. Do you agree? (BC)

I think it's fashionably to say 'collect moments not things' and ofcorse this is true to a certain extent. But I just wouldn't want to be without any possession whatsoever. To have a certain amount of money to my disposal, to have cloths on my back and live in a house with computer and Internet is all too comfortable, but I just would not want to be without.

I am writing this with great difficulty on my laptop, since my desktop computer crashed yesterday! OMG I hope the new computer, left by my late father, will be in working order by tonight. I just attached all the cables, switched on and...nothing happened! A typical woman struggling with technology? So my nephew is coming over tonight to fix things I desperately hope since I am totally depending on my computer.

So yeah..I cherish moments like the next girl, but I do want my computer and I do want it to work. No apology here.