December 2011
malingos → theharleyandtheivy
Swati girl nominated for international peace prize →
tribune.com.pk
Malala Yousufzai, 13, beat 93 contestants from 42 countries to be nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize 2011. The class 8 student became the first Pakistani to be nominated for the prize, and if selected, she will be given the award by Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu.
The prize is presented to a child with exceptional capabilities whose remarkable acts and thoughts have made a difference in countering problems that affect children around the world. The prize was first launched at the Nobel Peace Laureates’ Summit 2005 and was initiated by the Dutch Organisation KidsRights.
The other four nominated for the award are: Liza (17) from Palestine, Michaela (17) from South Africa, Nikolay (17) from Armenia and Winfred (14) from Uganda. One of the five nominees will be rewarded with the prize on November 21 (today) and will become the seventh child to get the prize.
Malala was nominated because she alone raised her voice for girls’ education during the mayhem in Swat, in which girls were not only banned from attaining schools and colleges, but their schools were destroyed as well. She successfully used national and international media to let the world know about violations of their rights. She fought bravely for girls’ rights in the militancy-hit Swat, focusing on their right to education.
ha ha ha keep telling those jokes about how Justin Bieber is a girl they really are hilarious!!!
November 2011
sexism is over!!!!!!!
today in Portuguese we were learning the words for household chores and first of all I objected to the way the book divided the chores because there was a lady example doing all the cooking- and kitchen- and laundry-related chores and then the dude example did like three things like yardwork and other such ~~manly chores
and then we got into groups and I was in a group with two dudes and I already hate one of them, J___, because he makes me really uncomfortable and he’s gross and obnoxious and when I was listing what chores I did and didn’t do and I said that I didn’t do cooking
and then like five minutes later J___ asked me (in Portuguese) ‘so Holly, you cook?’ with this kind of knowing look and I said ‘no, I don’t’ and he was like all surprised and asked ‘really??’ and I said ‘yes really. I don’t cook’ and he asked ‘why????’ and I said ‘because I’m not good at it’ and he got this condescending look on his face and said ‘well you need to learn’ and I was furious and I just said ‘NO’ and he was like ‘yeah, you do’ and I was like ‘WHY?’ (this all would have been more swearing-filled if I knew Portuguese curses) and he just looked at me sort of smugly with this little smirk and was like ‘well, because…’ and I had no interest in hearing the rest so I said ‘NO’ again and I wanted to punch him in his smug patronizing face so badly fucking god
