(It kind of gives new meaning to the term “sports bra.”) Soroptimist members design the bras and there are typically several that accompany tickets for games, such as the Dodgers and the Rams. One friend bought a Van Gogh bra and her guest bathroom was decorated in that theme, so she put it there.” The majority of people will display them. “They’re pretty darn fabulous,” Rutherford said. And this year there are three special participants modeling – a daughter and two granddaughters of Sheila Veloz, whose name identifies Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital’s imaging center.Īnd for some, the bras turn into home décor, providing a reminder of their significance. There are live models circulating the room, many of them breast cancer survivors who are passionate about the cause, said Kathy Rutherford, president of the club and event co-chair with Stephanie Sewell, Stephanie Beaty, Lisa West and Laura Chesler. This year the theme is “Alice in Wonderland.” 7 with a live auction of elaborately and artistically decorated bras. The event itself is a dinner at the Hyatt Regency Valencia on Sept.
Bras for a Cause provides the kind of comfort to families that enables them to put one foot in front of the other, even when suffering painful symptoms of the disease and its treatment, along with the fear and anxiety associated with the financial strain.Īnd the Bras for a Cause organizers uniquely integrate a serious matter with a playful evening.
Though cancer doesn’t check your bank account before striking, I love to see women with resources sharing with those who, in many cases, are being buried by bills.
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And though our physical skin may be thinning with age, it doesn’t mean our personalities have to do the same. Women haven’t had voices as long as men have. And only white, male landowners could vote. Keep in mind, if no one ever challenged the status quo we’d still belong to England. My favorite piece of the president’s recent tweet was when he accused the congresswomen of “viciously telling the people of the United States … how our government is to be run.” Again, Google will tell you that’s their job. We describe women with such facts as how they look or their relationship to family, while men are described according to what they’re saying. A fragile, soft, low tone of voice is the acceptable range for a woman.īut what’s possibly the most obvious reason we don’t listen to the voices of women can be observed in write-ups about leadership. Words like “assertive,” “aggressive” and “leader” are descriptions that benefit men, but the opposite applies to women. If a female has a loud voice she’s often subjected to words like “obnoxious” and “grating.” (Margaret Thatcher was coached to speak in a lower range.)Īnd describing a woman as “loud” is almost never a compliment. But there’s a psychological advantage to speaking in a lower register: We have a biologically driven judgment that lower-pitched voices connote stronger, more trustworthy, more confident people. The pitch of your voice is determined by your height and hormone levels, so women’s voices are typically higher. Posted on a blog called “As Loud As I Want To Be: Gender, Loudness, and Respectability Politics,” it lays out some of the challenges for females. NPR created a short video called “Talking While Female,” which touches on the inherent biases against certain voices.
But there’s also a gender bias against women who use their voices to challenge the status quo, which is what The Squad is trying to do. I could state the obvious (that he sees black skin and thinks of Africa, even when the person’s bloodline in the U.S. If you agree that a person who criticizes our country should leave, then you misunderstand that a democracy is a government that defends a person’s right to say what he/she thinks – even when you disagree.įor the occupant of the White House who thinks these four women should “go back” to the countries they “came from,” someone should point him to Google where he’ll find that three of them were born here – Cincinnati, Detroit and the Bronx – and all four are U.S. How unfortunate that some Americans will defend their own right to say anything, but call it unpatriotic when a citizen espouses something they disagree with or fear.
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