Perceptions...

This is something worth sharing I guess... A couple of days ago, a coincidental meeting with a senior occured... Well, for me it was quite nerve - wracking as we do not really agree on terms as our perspectives towards life are totally different...It wasn't bad as in a cat and dog fight... but we did argue quite a lot as far as I remembered when we were waiting at the canteen for our transport to arrive after school... That was years back and i doubt that he would remembered those days... It was actually quite interesting and funny as well now that i have come to think about it...

I was expecting another long argument on some form of topics although we haven't seen each other for a long time, and sure enough he began to engage in one almost immediately... It started off with the usual 'Hi's and 'How are you?' greetings and to catch up with recent living conditions... Then he proceed to say all of you should get yourselves moving and working to look more attractive so that you can grab a billionaire's heart or at least a billionaire's son...(I was present with my besties at that moment)...My mind was shouting "what sort of mentality have you being developing all these years" I sensed that something more provoking was coming after that... He 'advised' us to get ourselves enrolled in popular and glamorous universities where the rich study... Saying that girls are usually luckier as they could just move up the status ladder without lifting a finger as having a rich boyfriend is what they must target to realise that... So, he advised us to do the same... Such mentality he had... He had actually attended one of these so called 'gold miner's university' earning himself a degree...(He is a richie too by the way) He said girls there who knows how to makeup and dress up got themselves really good rich boyfriends who spend a lot for their sake (LV original bags, branded stuff) and endless flow of money...It seems that girls do get lots of money from their partners who just handed over to them nonchalantly... Well, all his talking was certainly degrading and pride scorning as my besties and I are certainly proud to be females who 100% do not live up to his expectations... We have our own visions and goals which we are thankfully working hard to achieve... We are not those stereotypical shopoholic type or the 'dumb blondies' type who live lavishly by depending on their boyfriends... Hello, we are in the 21st century now (as said by most even in the movies)... We have our prides too as females of the modern era... and in fact we have even gotten the rights to almost every opportunity to develop ourselves in life (especially academically and job wise) and are still fighting against all forms of discriminations towards our kind... Although women may have their guy partners but it does not mean that our life and death depends entirely on men... We could work, feed and fend ourselves very well even without help from the dominant group... Sorry to say that, this sort of mentality is what that cause the occurance of glass ceiling and glass escalator to continue... it is a form of insult to us that females have to depend on men to gain financial stability... Even Julian Gillard held the post as the current president of Australia... To us, the limit of success is only the sky (no, we even have female astronauts, pilots and air force members in the air)...

There was another point that he had proudly pointed out...He had done some research for his company and the results turn out to be women who have just graduated have higher market value thus most companies do not really want to hire them as their salaries are expensive... I responded "Does that mean that most young women are unemployed?".. He said yea... I doubt it... But the words might be true..Maybe they are unemployed but i think for a reason slightly different from what he had proposed, it all boils down to the glass ceiling issue and not because of their high salary employment rate or their capabilities.... This is a silent form of discrimination that is still growing in the society... Human perceptions are set by humans themselves, thus it is not a thing to be afraid of... Roosevelt had done so a long time ago, and the spirit continues to break the misperceptions...