International Women's Day - Inspirational Women

Sorry QVC but I feel you are making a mockery of this important day with your so called "Inspirational Women!" I really feel you have stopped to new lows.

Completely agree. I have relatives in the Ukraine and every year my cousin sends me an Int Women's Day card. She is my role model, poor, repressed by government for years, including Putin's incursions, and her hubby, she milks cows, ploughs fields and looks 20 years older than her true age. No Liz Earle skin care nor Kelly Hoppen luxury bedding nor nice warm clothes & shoes. She can't afford the inflated prices for white goods etc - £500 for a basic washing machine which I paid for. Her first husband was in the division of the soviet army that had to build the Berlin Wall - he never really recovered from the sights he saw and the human toll.

Obviously my Dad was from the same background.

So that is why I find QVC's flippancy particularly offensive.

Also, as mentioned in another thread, they had two men presenting the TSV.

QVC jump on bandwagons but put little thought in how to deliver them.

As ever Q jumping on the bandwagon using it to sell their tired brands.

Lol great minds think a like....

ERICS MUM said:

Completely agree. I have relatives in the Ukraine and every year my cousin send me an Int Women's Day card. She is my role model, poor, repressed by government and her hubby, she milks cows, ploughs fields and looks 20 years older than her true age. No Liz Earle skin care nor Kelly Hoppen luxury bedding nor nice warm clothes & shoes. Her first husband was in the division of the soviet army that had to build the Berlin Wall - he never really recovered from the sights he saw and the human toll.

So that is why I find QVC's flippancy particularly offensive.

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Totally agree, my Mum was born in Nazi-occupied Prague, recalled vividly polishing the boots of one of the Russian soldiers who came to liberate them amongst many other fascinating but scary as hell stories from her life. She was and is still my role model - a woman who left all her friends and family behind to come to the UK in 1968 with nothing but a few quid in her pocket to build her life here.

Absolutely NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH BEAUTY PRODUCTS OR FASHION :mysmilie_51:

And we have the Camouflage sisters!! Gone mad!

Well I am not even going to watch the channel today out of principle. This really has upset me! How they can think Julie Bates (Peoney Flowers) or Michelle sodding Mone are Inspirational Women is staggering. It is so insulting to so many women the world over. To use this as a marketing ploy is appalling!

I also have a problem with the actual day itself as it's a bit like Valentine's Day - worst case scenario, you can be a relationship beast for the rest of the year, but as long as you sort out the card and gifts on the one day, that makes it 'ok'. The rest of the year, women are degraded and abused and treated like cr*p all over the world, but at least we have the one day a year where our contributions are honoured on social media and shopping websites...(with the degradation and abuse ongoing).

I'm a firm believer in women's rights (and men's rights too) but I think these kinds of 'days' are divisive and ultimately a token gesture given everything that still goes on behind the scenes, a bit like marching against the Iraq war back in 2003. I'm not apathetic though and think people should continue to fight for what they believe in, but I do think the rules of engagement have changed to the point where I'm not sure how we as individuals can make a difference these days.

What I would like to see (in a very ideal world) is everyone, whatever their gender, respected for their contributions to society and given the freedom of choice to make decisions without being judged or ostracised or imprisoned or even killed. Ideal world indeed.

Sorry for getting heavy, I got a bit riled up :mysmilie_365:

Indeed, Tarketa. I watched PMQ's and the budget today with MP's falling over themselves to talk about women and women's rights, the same people who say diddly squat about those issues over the rest of the year.

Tinkerbelle said:

And we have the Camouflage sisters!! Gone mad!

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Hinge and Brackett!

This is QVC jumping on the bandwagon to commercialise a Day whose true meaning is so far away from the people they are trotting out.

I come from a generation when our Mothers were inspirational women. Mine worked 3 jobs to ensure all of us could have decent clothes and school uniforms and good food on the table. She did an early morning cleaning job starting at 6am then she`d come home to send us off to school followed by a stint in a weaving mill until 4pm and then another cleaning job in the evening. She had no mod cons, no automatic washing machine, no microwave, no freezer cooked a meal from scratch every day and spent her Saturdays catching up with housework and washing and then on Sundays she`d go to my Grandad`s house and do his cleaning and laundry too. My Dad worked away Monday to Friday so she had little help.
We all learned from an early age how to wash up, peel veg, make beds etc and those of us who passed our 11 plus were sent off to Grammar school with everything we needed. She battled ill health for many years and she just kept on working. She was last in the queue for anything new and died long before she should have done but she was proud to be a house owner in the days when many people rented and she was proud to see her kids get a good education which is something she was denied and she fought tooth and nail to encourage all of us to get a better life than she`d had.

I agree with all the posters - and what stories !

This is the thing - about us 'baby boomer' generation, the world we grew up in (and some still living it) is so far removed from today's lifestyle, that the price of a Lulu Guinness handbag was 6 month's wages for our parents. I get so fed up by reports that we are the future bed blockers of the next 10-20 years and we've had it all good with housing, jobs, pensions etc etc at the expense of the generations following us, - they easily forget we had a childhood of no c/heating, of only salad stuffs in the summer, roast chicken was a luxury for xmas dinner, ice on the inside of the windows in the winter, school uniforms bought by Provident Cheques, toys only at Christmas, no telephone, and only the wealthy and the doctor had a car ! Yes, there are kids in poverty these days, BUT there is the safety net of the Welfare State, - we had National Assistance but no-one admitted to making use of it - it was too shameful. Unlike today.

Ellaaa said:

Also, as mentioned in another thread, they had two men presenting the TSV.

QVC jump on bandwagons but put little thought in how to deliver them.

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The thread rapidly got pulled by the Q FB mods...

Well said, brissles. I remember it well. Central heating was like Paradise!

I have 2 problems with WOMAN's day.

What has your gender got to do with the price of fish? It should be persons day. I would feel the same about men's day.

I'm pretty pissed off with Googles wee picture today - why should a mother be prominent- people should not be judged on the ability or otherwise of their womb. Just because you have given birth does not elevate you to sainthood - some of the worst people in history have been mothers.

PEOPLE PEOPLE - all the above mentioned who have/are living under dire conditions are tremendous because they are wonderful people some of whom are females.



Rant over.