Awarded a Ph.D from Nottingham University

S. Calleja

Aug 20th 2012, 03:58

Do you realise how patronising and condescending your comment is towards women? Would you have said the same words had it been a man? I suspect not, which would only show that your outlook towards women would be one based primarily on physical appearance, only to be "complimented" by other achievements. What does Miss China and beauty contests in general have anything to do with this? You should be ashamed for referring to anything as remote as this.

Tiziana Cassar

Aug 20th 2012, 09:13

Agreed S. Calleja. This article is about Ms. DeGiovanni's academic success...what does her femininity and beauty have to do with it??

Pule' Carmel

Aug 20th 2012, 20:16

For modern requirements the contribution by Arthur Schopenhauer " Of Women" needs a little modification,
Byron and others did not do so bad in complementing women.
I do not fully agree with either of them, but it makes pleasant reading to know how other famous men thought of women.
I hope that I did not offend Ms Katya Degiovanni in any way by referring to her as a Happy, splendid, beautiful , woman. When I complemented her my first compliments were for Doctorate and not her looks.
Arthur Schopenhauer and Byron would have done better than I did..

Pule' Carmel

Aug 22nd 2012, 15:32

Ms Tiziana Cassar. Academic success for both men and women, to me, is like saddling blinded workhorses. Keeping her femininity throughout her life, as a girl, a maiden, a mother, grandmother, is what restrains this procedure in a woman!

Pule' Carmel

Sep 2nd 2012, 03:08

I shall always congratulate a modern woman seeking academic success to be a better workhorse, but I just came across this Poem by Maya Angelou who passed her own comments about a Phenomenal Woman, a poem no woman should miss.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Pule' Carmel

Sep 5th 2012, 15:10

Maya Angelou, a wonderful woman who had a very hard childhood, at the age of eight, her body was abused, at the age of 16 was a single mother paying attention to her imature but so natural body demands, at 24 she was poor and so used her body to earn a living with, and later went to obtain a Doctorate and a Professorship. in her poem "Still I rise" she included the following stanza to describe herself , her natural feminine instinct, which she as a woman appreciates more than her academic success. She gives her femininity as much importance as her academic success, through this stanza in her poem " Still I rise "

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Now there is a woman who appreciates every part of her body and her brains as I did in my comments.

She has so many simple but deep poems as ,
*Ai'nt I a woman
*I know why a caged bird sing,
* The Mask,
*To a man.
And many others which only the feeling of a complete woman can ever produce. I wish all Maltese women success in any direction they wish to follow. I am a man who appreciates a woman and will never judge her in whatever she choses to do.

Pule' Carmel

Sep 12th 2012, 14:56

Considering the critisizm I recieved from S. Calleja and Tizjana Cassar, on my comment may I change the first line of Maya Angelou poem, Phenomanal Woman to the following, I do not thing Maya Angleou would mind under the circumstances.

Academic Women, wonder where my secret lies
I am not cute or built to suit a fashion model size,
etc, etc.