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Nighttime Love Quote
Our mothers always told us never to go to bed fighting with your loved ones. This love quote explains why.
“Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
- Philip K. Dick
Unique Online-Matchmaking Profile?
Identity theft is usually associated with material losses. Credit card, bank or insurance details can be used to do serious financial damage. We know these risks and we protect ourselves against them. Now, there’s a new type: online-matchmaking profile theft.
Apparently, some singles looking for a partner are so lazy (unoriginal, uninventive, insecure…?) that they can’t describe themselves the way they really are in their online-matchmaking profile. Instead, they copy other singles’ profiles, probably in the hope of improving their chances with those looking for a partner. Read more
International Women’s Gift-Giving Day
We mentioned International Women’s Day briefly yesterday; more about that today. International Women’s Day was originally a political occasion to honor women’s social and economical contributions. Women would hold rallies to protest their disadvantages in politics and society.
In many socialist countries, International Women’s Day was declared a holiday and promoted by the state. Today, International Women’s Day is still an important day for women who want to call attention to their political goals.
In many countries, however, International Women’s Day is no longer political or feminist, rather it’s become an International Women’s Gift-Giving Day, much like Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day. In Russia, men give gifts to the important women in their lives and congratulate every woman they happen to come across on that day.
The nice thing about Women’s Day is that no woman is excluded. Not single women – like Valentine’s Day – or childless women – like Mother’s Day. It’s about honoring women, without glossing over the fact that women still are disadvantaged in many ways. To balance out all that women’s interest stuff, there’s also a World Men’s Day (Ha! Sponsored by a chocolate bar manufacturer – how fitting!)
Happy Women’s Day, Ladies!
Is “Happy Women’s Day” the customary greeting on this occasion? We’re quite unsure, but we wish all the ladies reading this a great day, whether or not they celebrate it as Women’s Day!
Where Love Quotes Go to Die
We have a habit of choosing happy love quotes. This one is a bit of a change, being about the death of love.
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
- Anais Nin
