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What Would You Put On A Feminist Birthday Sign?
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There is a massive glitzy sign in my neighbor’s yard. It is very close to the sidewalk for all to see. It is the type of sign that is a very long row of very large individual letters. It is telling us all that this woman is having a landmark birthday. It says HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY AMANDA. And added onto each end are more signs that are images of glam things that all girls love, right?
Maybe, maybe not.
The glamorized, star sprinkled images at each end of the very long sign are a purse, shopping bags, a perfume bottle, a huge stiletto and a woman wearing stilettoes in a sexy pose, sitting on gift boxes.
It brings up memories of the sexy antics of Jeannie from the old TV show “I Dream Of Jeannie” or the glamorous Samantha from another old show, “Bewitched”.
Those images are not what I would pick to put on a birthday sign. I get it, it’s a sign. But for the sake of this exercise, let’s not assume that every woman likes the same sparkly things.
I began talking and laughing about alternate ideas. What would a feminist woman want to add to her birthday sign? A sex positive woman? Or the divorced woman like me, that everyone loves to hate?
