BEHIND THE MASK:Women

Wow! So dramatic!!

grayeaglephotos

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this is very nice , well done

rod adams
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thanks migkats

Very fine Idea dear friend and emotive result… I love what you done here.
Bravo!

Mohsen.

I am here! I am thinking…...what will Mohsen think about this/what advice will he or can he offer!

thankyou for your comments

I’m so sorry cuz I have only 30 mins till to going to my new class!
but anyway, it’s some kinda paradox I think here, two symbolic…. beautie against the hardship!
Your idea was fantastic, but anyway!!

no …not quite/ this woman was beautiful.I saw it in her eyes….

yes she is beautiful… but the symbol?

the symbol..

I guess i am watching her/respecting/thinking wondering at her dancing eyes/knowing power lies below…........

I have many questions to ask you but….......

To ask me? so, seems you know everything…
It’s much better now… I mean about what I’m thinking here. “knowing power lies below” is very thoughtful… where you have captured that shot?

in melbourne/her husband and family with her/ that day many questions rolled off my tongue and her husband just smiled and they let me chatter on. I expected no answers but it was ok and they let me take many photographs
next time i will tell you about a woman i met in london/i have to go!.sorry

no I have 10mins again! what I’m thinking is she and her family are the religious minorities. some kinda muslim but a little harder at it’s point. you can see these people in Iraq – saudi – and in turkaman. but I’m just thinking… I just see the symbol here. we havent such a veil in our beside, but I surely respect to their belief.

hope to see more photographs about them. you’ve said you have take so many photographs!

• I’m going out… hope to see more of your works soon!

do I know everything
no /far from it/but I must understand/I am not being judgmental in anyway/other photos are not really important but I must understand/all people must respect each other. I think you are between a rock and a hard place…..... .so to say and hence no questions.
I do appreciate your comments.

Outstanding work!

interesting contrasts

Im back againg for some minutes! congratulation for Featured work my dear… very well deserved. I’m sure we’ll see your works on the first page very soon!
by the way,
You must or want understand & judgment what? there’s nothing so hard my dear. it’s just about the bigness of our universe. so many belifes… and I’m second it and agreed that we must respect each other…

hah! I meant “again”!

Mohsen,

have been on front page/that is not why i am here.

thankyou always for your open minded comments

mark peterson

thankyou for your comments.always appreciated

Judith Oppenheimer
thankyou for interesting contrasts

mark peterson

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I see/never knew what featured was and so thankyou very much.
Women and their mark on society is very important for our future here in Australia and elsewhere.

mikecinco

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sorry Mohsen

think I am like a dog with a bone.
With internet your life and mine have become intertwined and so the universe is closer/closer.
It is so important that we encourage each other to reach our full potential .Education is the key.

Cláudia Alves

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Great work and words shanghaiwu

this is fantastic work, and well worded, great to see you sharing your artistic talents with us, cheers

Brilliant artwork Shanghaiwa!!
Wonderful words! :)

thanks helene/much much appreciated

helene kippert
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Rose Moxom

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Kym Breeze
thankyou kim for your words of encouragement. This is a message for all women.

Kym Breeze

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hdphotos
words are important and action even more so ..

thankyou for your comments

• I agree the internet will make us close, but there is some kinda sunna and traditions wrong or not that still alive!
  our universe will turn, just because of these symbols…

I understand/there is much reading on the internet about sunna/traditions and I will try and understand….words that spring to mind….....the way/course/destiny/our universe will turn but not through fear.

Yes, I love this saying, not through fear. but it’s like a paradox for me, and of course will be for you!
just a likeness: the tradition like Hijab or Veil; some of the things and rules are completely distorded. it’s so sad that some people do distort this kinds religious rules just for their direct..
I just say it for a religious example. there are more other thing that will be similar to the topic: the fear-symbols. !!

This fear is real….not in my mind but I see this…...the world situation is one I am far from admiring. I actually despise what one man can do to another and therefore I think it is time women took a more dominant role.

I am assuming you are at University. What is the ratio of men to women?

Yes. It’s true that I’m still a student, but for now, I’m working as a teacher of fine-arts in our classes. the ratio of men to women? it’s not so hard my dear…
Yes. youre right. the power for men is more than to women, but not that much!! if anybody wants something, I mean really wants, then, she or he, can really reach to it… Luckily or unfortunateily, we are living in the 21th century….
and in my university, unfortunatily there is no woman-teacher, but they are working in other universities. and in my classes, the ratio is completely equal. as I told you in my bubble-mail, I’m the friend of each of my students…. girls and boys!!

Ok handsome….....thanks for answering that question and in such detail.
Does it concern you that within any religious group there are fanatical elements?

You are asking how old am I?

Thank you sweet-heart!
YES, it is concern me. it’s one of the things that I really hate… they are funny in my opinion and they just PLAY more than a very sad game. I have to respect them as a human, but I cant agree with their beliefs…. you know, I’m not a very religionist man. I just believe in God and I know there are so many cosmic things.

No but yes somehow!! I just ask it because you ask it first!

ok ok

we must stop meeting like this but before I go and have a cigarette
.I appreciate your thoughts and from what you have conveyed think you are a special person.
I also believe in God.
I think you and I /in discussion will be like the squirrels cage. You mentioned the word comfortable yesterday. So easy to be comfortable…....let’s both make a difference.
...

and so the not so interesting debate will continue in private as I have issues

heyy..
this is AMAZING

wow

so dramatic and.. just AMAZINGG!

will you pleeeeeasee check out some of my work too please? im a noob and i just want people to let me know what they think.. thank you.. x)

Superb work- such depth and vision

theartlover
what an awesome message to view when 1st tuning into RED BUBBLE
thankyou very much and will come visit you

cdwork

thankyou for your very positive feedback/much appreciated

NOW as regards my new friend Mohsen

we have had a “sweetheart tiff” as I told him I thought men were “stuffing up the world” and that women should be taking a more dominant role.

sorry mohsen/i made an error in my judgement and we both know my statement is untrue…..ha ha eeeeeeeyyyyyyyaaaaaaa

Mohsen….my friend
do the women in your class wear the (full) burhka?
what do you think of the treatment of the women of Basra?

Great…

thanks antanas

antanas

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Excellent work of art! Congrats and more power!

thankyou carlo

between you and I /thankyou for more power

Carlo

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Shylie Edwards

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Very moving image, shanghaiwu, as the Chinese say : 美籍了!

oh basil i do not read chinese and hope this is a good message from the chinese!

thanks for your support and so pleased you commented

Beautiful presentation!

thanks mugsy for your comments

mare

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I love hot this artwork sparked a complete discussion. I’m on your side. I do believe that women need to have more rolls in our society, to say a “dominant” or not is a different question. Women should be treated equally and with respect. For Westerners it is easy to say these things pointing the finger towards women in vails or burkas, obeying the men and being treated as second-class citizens. However you have to remember that for many it’s their choice and the way they were brought up. Middle Eastern traditions, religious bring up, are not things that can be thrown completely. In any case you’re artwork creates a very strong fish rule that can help people learn their differences and strive for more equal society.

In the last sentence I meant “your artwork creates a very strong visual that can…..

Eyal

so so sorry I have just seen your messages

I understand the issues conveyed by you

......for many it is their choice!.....how many choose freely I wonder
.....
within religion no-one should suffer whatever country in which you reside…......china?Ireland?Australia?. and it goes on…..........thoughtout history nothing has changed..we must ask ourselves.WHY!?
no one should be intimidated by another/threatened into submission

thanks for strong “visual comment”/much appreciated

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phil1950

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coopphoto
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annacuypers

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where are you mohsen?

what is happening in pakistan!

joseph valcourt

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Meiko Janke
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tracey bollinger

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awesome!

Archan Nair

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C.C. Arshagra

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Steven Potas

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a stunning composition

thanks sabine for stunning composition/much appreciated

caroline caux

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i love this image and i love your words that match the image. wonderful message.

bloody top work mate… as always…

megan graham

thanks for loving the words/awesome you

megan

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hi handsome teeth

thanks always for your comments…..........mate!

rowantreedesign

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You are amazing and your feminist aesthetics are politically phenomenal. I commend you my Sista Comrade. Keep on struggling through resistance against the Cog machinery. Monkey wrenches such as this particular piece would be one of our non-violent propaganda. THE TIME TO WAKE UP IS NOW. THE REVOLUTION HAS ARRIVED VIA THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT OF HUMANITY. WE MUST KEEP PUSHING ON FOR THE SUN DOESN’T RAIN ALL THE TIME, AND, THERE’D BE SOME HEARTACHES AND PAINS. EDUCATION+RE-EDUCATION= DE-EDUCATION. JUST REMEMBER THIS AS WE STRUGGLE FOR A BETTER WORLD COMMUNITY, A PEOPLE UNITED—WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED!!!

you make me weep!

Educate educate Educate our own first before we dictate to the world. Build BRILLIANT schools in the outback for our aboriginal children/have aboriginal teachers trained by the time the buildings are finished/their art will flourish/their languages will continue….an aboriginal grandmother’s dreamtime then becomes reality.
Sorry I know i have deviated in thought….......what is happening in australia must STOP….....aboriginal women must rise up /be strong ….Women everywhere must continue to educate themselves and make sure the same happens for their children.

michelle randell

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Agree with Mohsen, an emotive work….this one touches my heart…..i think it is the mixing of cultures that woos me Shanghaiwu :D

Fantastic work , I like you style

Fantastic work , I like you style

coppertrees

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susan davies

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Liz Wohlrab

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50% of the world’s population are women. They should have equal rights everywhere in the world.

blythphoto
your comments have been noted with interest and you and I will start working on this.

thankyou very much

I get hot under the collar discussing women’s rights. It is a subject that should never have needed to arise in the first place. Although I am a man, I feel ashamed at the way men have trodden on women over the centuries. As a Christian, I am disgusted by the way so many (so-called) Christians use their faith to denigrate women. Don’t even mention Islam’s attitude to women. Historically, there have been times when women were treated as equals. In ancient Britain, women fought and worked alongside men.

I myself grew up in a home where my father believed that a woman’s place was in the kitchen. When I married, my dad took my wife to the market place in Blyth to show her where the book stall was. He left her by the Mills and Boon romances, with the remark that, “here are the women’s books.” That was when his education began and he was told kindly but firmly that she actually preferred Sartre, Huxley, Orwell, etc. He looked at her in the way one would look at a performing chimp, but soon got the message and started to respect her more for her assertiveness.

Ironically (considering my upbringing) my wife now has a career and I stay at home to do the washing, ironing and hoovering and to make meals for our family. I have developed health problems over the years, which necessitated medical retirement, in case any of you think I am too lazy to work :))

Oops … I forgot this wasn’t your Journal … apologies for my verbosity :))

blythphoto
you are forgiven as regards confusing the journal.Your story is probably not all that different to many others/it is time and generation influences which in most cases brings improvement for all.
Around the world it is all pretty much the same. In Japan the meaning of wife/KANAI/means belonging within 4 walls. But then for us all these are changing times…......for all of us!It is the personal effort we make that will help the rest of mankind have a better way of life.

Have been so concerned about my sweetheart/Moysen as I have not heard from him for so so long…....so sent a bubblemail….......”are you there!” to cut a long story short I told him I was pleased to hear from him as was most concerned as he may have been under house arrest because of his association with me.He assured me that all was ok and he has been busy on certain projects.

Great work! Very interesting! :)

Beatrix M Varga
thankyou for your comments/this image is very important to me and appreciate your thoughts

I really loves the words that go with this picture. Very powerful and very true. Great job

lolowe
so pleased you found me/go tell another woman…....please

Wow !!! Such Amazing strong words and brilliant image ! Love how your work sends out a message of hope and belief…. !

awesome work here. love the whole composition

sbsstudio
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Marwa Morgan
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You have some wonderful art in your Bubble…

wow – this is awesome!

deecomposing666
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Helen Chierego
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Franke

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I appreciate your willingness to stand up for women throughout the world. We are stronger and more resillent than some think. Women do much of the work for the family, and behind the scenes. Many are still not allowed to reach their potential and this too will change. Thanks for highlighting the plight of so many in your art.

Mohsen…sorry but I have a question/just a small question

so Mohsen

will you have more than one wife at a time…..............

what, oh please! I’m not just like what you may think! please!
your answer is NO!
can any women have more than a one husband at a time?

Sheila McCrea
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Well done on a great portfolio Too many great images to comment on them all!

mike paget
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WONDERFUL PICTURE AND STATEMENT!

FAVORITE!

MtnMan
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AWESOME work!

outstanding collage

Wow this is amazig very moving image!

carol/also thankyou for adding this image to your favourites

Wow! Thank you so much for adding me to your watchlist!

Jacques Provitt

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greenbeard

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This is a great illustration of an important message. Excellent work!

Australian Travel Photography and Writing

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woof

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Stunning work

theyellowfury

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John Dicandia

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They talk about the power of men but the power of women in society and civilisation is beyond measure! Women are the reason why we even exist! A beautiful and thought provoking piece. :)

Powerful imagery of feminine disparity, Some are strong and independent whereas others are subservient to a predominantly male culture. Beautiful!!!

Rino Munzù

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cyclops

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In a recent study by the United Nations, empowerment and education of women has been identified as the solution to most medical problems in the developing world. To this end, weaving groups have been established to provide an environment acceptable to the local males where women can be educated and empowered to help save themselves and their families from diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Polio, and Malaria.

Go Wu!