These are my thoughts for my 2015 post on International Women's Day:
"At first, I was concerned when I started seeing International Women's
Day being used as a greeting (i.e. introducing it with the word
"happy", like when people say "Happy International Talk like a Pirate
Day"). I thought this type of recognition was trivialising this day and
its significance.
I thought about it some more and while I still
hold those concerns to a degree, at the same time, spreading knowledge
about the day is a positive action, provided that the meaning and
message behind it is not lost. Plus, increasing equality is something to
be happy about."
I don't want International Women's Day to become reduced to a mere greeting unless, of course, that only happens when women are truly equal and there's zero danger of society backsliding into past treatments of women. Sadly, that day is still a long way off.
You do have a point. I know whenever I'm on Wesley's Facebook and see my religious friends posting the Biblical verses of women being inferior and only a man can compliment her, I get angry.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad that anybody still thinks that women are inferior to men. :(
DeleteI think the first I heard of it was last year on your blog. :)
ReplyDeleteAccording to your comments back then, it was. :)
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