Current mood:

amused

2 days, 2 views
Tier Park – on my second day I decided to go to the Zoo, I’ve heard that there was one of the nicest in Germany. I just loved it, I was sort of fighting with children for a space to see the seals. What about the monkeys? Oh, my goodness, they were so cool...

I always have a strange feeling in the zoos, it’s like we take away what they have of more precious: freedom. Somehow they turn to be less animal, less natural, less wild, more human...

Fortunately, I had a different feeling this time, they were very well treated and kind of wild. They had large spaces to live and there are large groups of them, so they have their own community.

P.S.: Those days I was searching for “inferno astral”, this period of one month that precedes your birthday. I was looking for a better explanation of it, when I found that: http://www.projetogap.com.br/noticias.php?id_not=201
I knew I had more thinks in common with this primates... hahaha

Back to the history...

The Zoo is located at the side of the Isar river, after lunch I went there for a walk. This place is a kind of beach, people make BBQ, picnics, or just go for a swim. Then I sat there and gave me the chance to feel it all, to observe it and their people. I was sitting on a stone with my feet into the water.

I like to observe the women here, in Germany I mean. They have something that I admire and something that scares me. On my first days at work I felt that most of the women here were lesbians. So strange... I was quite afraid of them... now I found out what it was... they are less feminine, most of them are Karrierefrau (business women), they cannot show any fragility, there is no charm, they are simply just a men. (therefore I thought they were lesbians...)

I feel that it was taken from them what they have of more precious: femininity, fragility, beauty. Somehow they turn to be less woman, less natural, less wild, more man like...

And how strong they are, it’s unbelievable. It’s like they have to be stronger than the men. Another day, we were in a meeting and somebody disagreed with my boss, you should see the monster coming out of her, the discussion was on professional matters, but it was like: men against women stuff (like when we were 5 years old and we found the boys disgusting!). She didn’t accept his advice, this is understandable, but the way she didn’t accept, wow... Thanks God, I’m playing on her team!(GIRLS 1 X 0 BOYS) Guess what, after that nobody had suggestions, or even compliments to say. (end of the first round!)

The other side of this behaviour is that they are so self-confident, specially to their body. They don’t do a diet for 3 months to put their bikinis (It reminds me of something...), they take their bikinis off (no, not me, not yet, maybe after the diet!). They don’t care about what men think of them, they are totally auto-sufficient. (how I wished to have at least 10% of it, 10% would be enough!)

The wellness is more valorised the detriment of Aesthetic. Their shoes are made with high technology to be confortable, not beautiful. We can see the same tendency in clothes: cotton, one of the most simple textiles, is the material of suits because it’s confortable. Another aspect is that they don’t wax their body, not as often as a Brazilian I know will do. This makes summertime quite frightening to me, I respect their decision, specially if it’s based on an ideology, but I wish they could show it differently. Once a friend of mine, who is half German, half Brazilian (Claudia), tried to explain this gender differences in Germany and told me that some woman were bath suits to swim but then they roll the upper part until the belly, and this is a protest, because they think that men have and show their breasts and they have the same right. (ah, I could imagine the happiness of my male friends if it could happen in Brazil as well. If so, I’m sure they will support the women revolution!)

German women, looking at them, I wonder what happens at home, when they take their clothes off and the mask falls...