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She Plays With Dolls

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Happy International Women's Day

I launched google this morning and there it was. A lovely doodle dedicated to International Women's Day. I even received a text wishing me happy women's day which made me smile and made me think. I dug up something I wrote in a very old blog I had on Deadjournal. Thank you sweetheart for reminding me about it's lighter counterpart. ;) But I digress. The following is a re-vamping of my long lost deadjournal which I feel is still relevant. Nice to know some things just dont change... Remember the Occupy Toronto movement which stemmed from the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States? The movement claimed to embrace the 99% of people who make up society. The average working joe and even the not so average working joe - lawyers, doctors, scientists and police officers are included. The argument is simple. Why do we need to work so hard and where does all our money go...