Just Emma

Hello, lovelies.         For as long as history has been recorded the role of women has, for the vast majority, placed front and centre - in the background. They were the assigned home makers, housewives, mothers and wives. We hear thought snippets of recorded history that some women rebelled against the constraints of this yoked mantle. But it never ever ended well, just think of the medieval witch trials. Whilst other women kept to their places in the homes and the preverbal kitchen sink. Were they happy with their lives? Safe under the protection of their fathers and husbands? Was it safer for women, in actual living memory, to have mortgages and loans counter signed by their male representatives? Is it a myth that women have the right to their own life and body autonomy? What about their own reproductive rights? Who should have the final say about that? Is it the right of every man to have access to a women’s body, even if she does not consent? Are women on...

    Hello, lovelies.       With every year that passes, we march ever forward towards our uncertain futures and away from our unchanging pasts. Music has changed. Our food choices have changed. Fashion has… well… fashion is ever changing. But most importantly, our understanding and expectations have changed. Gone are the days of women being tied to the kitchen sink. Men being the sole breadwinners, spending the weeks hard earned cash down the pub on a Friday night out with the boys. It's now socially unacceptable to wolf whistle as a pretty ‘lady’ walks down the street. Life is a million miles away from just our parents' generation. But is that a good thing? Or were we all better off when we all knew our places and what we could except from our lives? Or should we be bashing down the outdated and dangerous attitudes and saying that no most definitely means no!         Waking up this morning was not an easy task. I was up super late last ...

Hello, lovelies.         We all have those moments when the word we’re se desperately searching for is on the tip of our tongue, but we just can’t remember it. Or that name, pin number or password is so close to mind, and then… poof! Gone, never to be remembered. And what of all those things that are supposed to be gone, sayings from a time gone by. What happens if we say something that is now frowned upon? What if someone has changed their pronouns, and no matter how hard we try, we can’t seem to say the right thing at the right time. Is it ever okay to say something and hope for the best? Is it ever alright to say what is on the tip of our tongues? Or is it time to move on and strive for so much better?       I am known for not always saying the right thing at the right time. So many times I will tell someone something, and the second I say it, realise that they were not the person I should have said it to. Or, and I have done this more than anyone ...