Comments on: President marks Women’s Day with talks on make-up and beauty tips https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: A. Walker https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/#comment-3033698 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:58:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59841#comment-3033698 In reply to Katleen.

I agree that many, not just women do a lot of work for free. These are to be appreciated and copied. What is objectionable is the tax payers’ money which is budgeted for the office of the President and the way it is used. Other NGOs cannot make use of state funded employees, phones, stationery, venues etc. but must bow to what has in fact become a state funded monopoly whose ‘expert’ views on women, for example, we can see from what is on offer.

]]> By: Katleen https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/#comment-3033674 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:44:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59841#comment-3033674 In reply to Sea Bastion.

This post is not a forum for deriding individual women, but for discussing structural problems in the way Maltese society deals with gender stereotyping.

]]> By: Katleen https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/#comment-3033673 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:39:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59841#comment-3033673 Hold on there, do you realise how much work these women provide ‘for free’ to make your society function? Very obvious to me, that’s from a country with extensive government-run family services.
However, agreeing that they should be awarded and treated to stimulating discussions and activities on ‘equal footing’, if I interpret your implied meaning correctly.

]]> By: Katleen https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/#comment-3033672 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:38:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59841#comment-3033672 Hold on there, do you relies how much work these women provide ‘for free’ to make your society function? Very obvious to me, that’s from a country with extensive government-run family services.
However, agreeing that they should be awarded and treated to stimulating discussions and activities on ‘equal footing’, if I interpret your implied meaning correctly.

]]> By: A. Walker https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/#comment-3033663 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:10:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59841#comment-3033663 There is a fee of Eur15 and part of the proceeds go to two specific charities according to the poster. But the office of the President is not an NGO because taxes fund employees’ wages, stationery, phone bills etc. so establishing net gains is a complicated affair.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/#comment-3033661 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:04:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59841#comment-3033661 http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/26/intl_world/international-womens-day-events/index.html

]]> By: tinnat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/#comment-3033594 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:16:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59841#comment-3033594 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

I’m absolutely positive that at some point during the conference the words “50 Shades” will be mentioned.

]]> By: doris https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/#comment-3033587 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:42:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59841#comment-3033587 Well said

]]> By: Bertrand Russell https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/#comment-3033586 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:28:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59841#comment-3033586 This is the sort of thing they should be promoting – incentives to promote equality:

http://time.com/3720652/imf-chief-christine-lagarde-female-equality-laws-are-good-for-the-economy/

Unfortunately our president is not Christine Lagarde.

]]> By: Sea Bastion https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/president-marks-womens-day-with-talks-on-make-up-and-beauty-tips/#comment-3033585 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:24:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59841#comment-3033585 I know a young lady who is attending this event (according to Facebook that is) and she seems to be one of those ‘Lebanon look’ and ‘hey boys look at me’ tryhards who always has tons of makeup on her face. Go figure.

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