So, I was born, grew up in this region, in Aragatsotn,
Talin, village, Katnaghbyur.
(Applause)
When I was a student,
I was always taller than my classmates.
Now I’ll show you, you will understand.
Eighth —– Eighth
Various competitions were organized in our school for physical training.
One of them tucked in my memory.
A red line on the floor and a solid rope,
all that was needed to organize this competition.
Two opponents, on different sides of the red line,
waiting for the roar of the string to wait until the sound of the whistle sounds
and all the strength was stretched out to the rope,
until the relatively weak participant crossed the red line.
The competition was organized for groups, girls and boys.
At first the girls were competing, then boys.
I do not know if this was an expression of patriarchal culture or a sport rule.
Probably a sport rule.
When I compete with girls, I won everybody.
Do you remember? It’s …..
Yeghish was the winner of boys’ competition.
Yeghish in the group of our boys in the same way, HQ —-.
Then I noticed a glance at the physical education teacher, to me.
I immediately understood what he wanted.
He wanted me to compete with the boys.
I competed with boys, violating the sporting rule.
This, Ararat,
This is Armen …
I won them, do you understand, is not it?
The boys in our class were not many – Vahan, David, Samvel.
And I started to blink slowly.
When I was competing with Yeghis, I dropped the rope,
I crossed the line myself.
Why did I suddenly turn red and with the full force I dropped the cord when competing with Yeghish?
Because suddenly I was awake and realized that if I did so,
(you understand, I was far enough away)
but if I continue, I will not at all
beautiful, tender, delicate woman.
At that time I was very small, only 10 to 11 years old.
But the environment has taught me to reckon with stereotypes.
And I did not agree to oppose a very popular stereotype,
that men are strong and women are weak.
I was embarrassed of the physical power given to me and adapted to my public expectations.
I told my long history so that I could speak
just stereotypes and public expectations.
What are they?
How do they address our actions, actions,
behavior and as a consequence of the quality of life.
Stereotypes created by society
conventional concepts,
ready-made solutions and answers for different situations.
Probably, they had their objective reasons at the stage of formation
and comply with the time requirements.
But with time, when the demands of life changed,
it is quite natural that these may be outdated,
Being in the past and just causing harm to us.
Let me now give you an example.
In ancient times, when the man was on his shoulders
the issues of feeding the family and its security,
and to ensure all this
the man was dealing with the hard physical work,
he went to the battlefield, cultivated the wheat field,
was quite normal and logical,
that she was relieved of everyday life or child care.
Today, when most of men do not tell everyone, but most of them,
rarely or almost never relate to physical work,
continue to think of that stereotype
that everyday affairs or care of children are not for them.
They are solely responsible for women.
There are also few cases when a woman works in a family,
cares for the material expenses of the family, but all the same,
No one helps her in dealing with everyday affairs or child care.
He is alone in those works.
I am a photojournalist by profession.
I do not know the peculiarities of my specialty,
but something that often happens to me.
I have my backpack on my shoulders, by bus, by bus, by taxi, by walking,
Using the map, making people’s inquiries
go and find my heroes.
Unbelievably,
but my simple backpack has a miraculous quality.
It gives me the right to rejuvenate for 10-15 years.
I think I’m not very young compared to my age.
On the contrary, I see how much I am.
But only because I have a backpack,
and photojournalist, I should be young enough.
And what can be said about this marriage?
and then have a baby,
it is just a fantasy genre.
After that, the first question that arises is why you came here.
And before I go to work I have to work with my heroes,
that everything in my house is OK,
There is a meal in the refrigerator; my son will not stay in the kindergarten,
that I am a good maid, a good woman, a good mother.
The society has a lot of expectations from women.
And it is difficult for women to cave in at some stage of life.
It is definitely acceptable to contrast
women’s work and family.
Fortunately, there are many cases when women are not inferior.
They are not inferior to any stage of life, and it does not harm them.
On the contrary, such women have everything,
good work, family, kids and many other opportunities.
I often get involved with women because of my work
and hear their stories, which is the favorite part of my work.
A commonality that I have noticed,
is that women are in the main issues of their lives
the decision is inferior to others.
They do not make a decision.
They lose their father, mother, other family members, husband,
her husband’s parents.
And you know what I’m saying,
I’m not talking about minor, secondary issues.
The opposite is true.
Education, profession selection,
marriage with Paul or Peter,
number of children, sex and health of children.
In such important, key issues:
Women make the decision behind others.
And to the question as to why you did not do what you wanted,
Why did not you demand your decision?
Most women answer ten of ten.
“And who was asking me?”
Imagine she had the decision,
but only because they did not ask him, he is conceding,
because we must be guided,
We do not really need it, but we are guided,
“You are a woman, you must be modest and obedient” with a stereotype.
Social Complaints:
are done through different institutes.
Today, I will refer to two of them, the community and the media.
By the way, these two institutions are very different from each other.
The community’s expectations are about the same as those of women:
that a woman should be educated in limited professions,
To marry, to have children, to grow up
and if there is a profession that does not break the family’s peace
It is possible to combine, it will just exceed expectations.
Media expectations from women are taught since childhood
beauty, long legs, thin back, lush chest,
drawn lines, drawn eyebrows,
long eyelashes, well-groomed long hair,
long sleeved nails, long here is very important,
highlighting clothing and high heels.
So high that it is impossible to walk.
In other words, the only purpose of the woman
to be desirable for men.
This stereotype is a victim of different ages
and by the way, women of different degrees of education.
They are their main time and huge amount of money
wasting in beauty salons and plastic surgery,
in order to meet the established criteria.
This stereotype becomes a victim
indeed, women of different social backgrounds.
And by the way, they will love these women, marry them,
children will be treated as children of their mother,
They will donate expensive presents,
car, please, the money as much as you want,
want to work, you want to go out of the house,
I will work for you,
Do not just think and make decisions.
You are limited in desires, and the decision will be mine.
Dear women and girls, the decision is most important.
Let’s give up everything, keeping our own conscious decision.
Society will deprive us of the ability to dream and make decisions
and this is because we have been expecting it from her opinion.
Let us give up all the material things,
perfume, car, money, shoes, diamond, fur,
give us all these things, keeping the most important thing,
their own conscious decision.
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