Stella Says

Alanis Morissette once said, “What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.”

The silence is truly deafening. Nary a peep about the beastly assault of a young woman that was so brutal, it forced her to abort her unborn child (the assault should be public record as it was reported to the police and the medical procedure was verified by the young woman).

Have you heard the rumours? The talk on the street is that snap elections may happen early next year.

I feel as if I can finally take a deep breath as the War on Women suffered major setbacks this week when voters in the US clearly rejected the strong anti-women undercurrent seen in this election.

Creating a birth control plan is one of the most important decisions in a woman’s life if she is determined to be the one who chooses when she will have a child.

I was more than a little taken aback at the negative response to my last column, which condemned the government’s involvement in bringing Chris Brown – a convicted woman beater – to perform in Guyana.

There are two sides of Chris Brown. One side is a violent man who can use his own two hands to mercilessly brutalise a woman he supposedly loves.

What parent has not on occasion raised their voice to their child in an attempt to get a point across?

If I had a wish for Domestic Violence Month, it would be that every female victim of this beastly crime would garner enough courage and foresight to testify against her offender.

There are reports of groups of women in Northern India that visit abusive husbands and beat them up with bamboo sticks unless they stop abusing their wives.

This week, a wife went to court for throwing the spectacles of another woman into a trench because her husband was rubbing the other woman’s face.

There has been much buzz this week about a new book, entitled “The End of Men and the Rise of Women,” by Hanna Rosin.

Last week, I wrote about local female musician Jackie Hanover, who has a song out that encourages women to be independent and to make a good life for themselves.

They say art is a reflection of society. If this is true, the local female musicians are proving that the women of this nation are on a good path. 

I seldom talk about women’s issues in the United States in this column for one very important reason: there are so few columnists (if any) in Guyana who focus on the women’s issues of this country.

I am writing on racism today because I have seen it in all its cruelty and ugliness too often in recent weeks.

I have been in sports heaven this past week. I look forward to the Olympics for one reason only:  to see women athletes perform on an international stage while the world watches intently.

I have seen it stated over and over that the breakdown of the family structure is the cause of domestic violence.

I had intended to write about Jackie Hanover’s great new song this week.

Recently, a friend posted on Facebook that she loved her life.