Women and War

We are now in our third sem and shall i say final sem of the course and I am looking forward for another head-aching comprehensive exam for sure it will be painful with my hands again because it is not yet invented that exams in compre are computerized but this time it is not much painful with my pocket. Well, i was interested this day in writing about women and war which is actually my topic for our subject on directed reading subject. It is a good course you have nothing to do but to read and write and what i like most is it is within the bounds of your interest. It is because writing is not fun if you do it for other people's interest just like my thesis on Retirement planning which is actually my primary interest is on the stories of the retired social workers but because the thesis panel wants it to be Retirement planning and Quality of Life now I am pushing myself to put myself into that context which is up to now I am on it's final revision for book form. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I feel lazy, but it is not my attitude to put things later and so even if I don't like doing it but if it is needed then I sacrifice.

Anyway what is good about women and war? well, it is a product of my fascination of war stories and war movies. I love war stories because it is always that if there is war then love comes. I remember Sir Felix, a co-volunteer once said: observed that patterned of all war movies you can always find love in there. Exactly! He has wisdom in saying that it is because the root causes of war if not the land it is the love one. Well, men are usually the culprit for seldom you can find women creating war.

I just don't know where my idea of the topic came from but every time, I saw men in uniform what comes to me is that soon their wives will be left alone because sooner or later they will be dead. I am crazy! But really, it is as if when you marry a soldier you need to accept the truth that there will come a time that he will not come back because he wants to be hero. If he will not die in the battle then he will die desperate. Other than that, it is just when I saw this episode in "Wowowee" regarding soldiers wives and how they feel about the loss, it made me cried. I cried with them and it is intensified with another episode of this OFW women from Lebanon that despite of the fact there is war if they have choices to make to go back then they will do it for their family's sake. Aren't they warriors too? Well, I saw them as silent victims out of this natural human phenomenon. I was even thinking that leaving once country to work as domestic worker in another country is also a war but a war against poverty. Maybe, a psychological war because a mother cannot take it that her children do not have food to eat.

Well, maybe unconsciously, I am motivated to search for effects of war to women because war as a subject is a common story from my mother which I've heard that she was born in the course of Japanese war. Then, rationalizing that it is the reason why she has some unknown fear. I feel that women are silent warriors they may not be in the battlefield but they are the one who were absorbing all the traumatic and psychological effects of war from their spouses. This will remind me of so many films like Ann Frank, Schindler's list and "Ashtemasute" wherein women are victims in many, many ways but in the end most of the heroes are men.

Having this all in mind now, I am looking forward for an action reading with regards to this subject.