Woman's Day
Those who want it and those who do not. There are different tales told about the 8th of March but the best known, capped by a legendary halo, tells the story of 129 American female workers who died in a fire that broke out in the factory where they were working.
The other one, still born in America, goes back to the 3rd of March,1908. A few socialist women organised the first Woman's Day in Chicago, where for the first time, they spoke out in front of a political public.
The Mimosa flower became the symbol of this holiday because of the meaning as well that this yellow flower conceals, the colour of passing from life to death, like the revolution that the women created to give birth to a better and more just world.
The commercial exploitation of our day has taken the meaning out of this day to the degree that many women know nothing about its origin and actually wish to abolish it. Who are the ones who no longer desire this day? The identity of these women is clear. First of all, they are westernised women who form part of the new generation, emancipated and who have achieved their objectives in the political, financial, professional and social fields. But perhaps mature women who have lived their younger days during the fifties, remember the real meaning of the 8th of March.
More than abolishing Woman's Day, we should give its real meaning back again, Let us remember the women in the Middle East, of those who have no say about their lives, of those who are obliged to carry on with sacrifice, pain and resignation.
Happy 8th of March:
To all those women who cannot have their photo taken
To those who are not allowed to let their hair play in the wind
To others who cannot smoke a cigarette as they would be considered prostitutes
To woman who undergo cruelty within the four walls of their houses
To others who have to wear a chador or go to prison
To those who are obliged to walk the streets every night
To those who are considered untrustworthy
To all the women who for one day at least may feel free to think, act and
speak because there is nothing more cruel than having to spend
your life in prison.
The other one, still born in America, goes back to the 3rd of March,1908. A few socialist women organised the first Woman's Day in Chicago, where for the first time, they spoke out in front of a political public.
The Mimosa flower became the symbol of this holiday because of the meaning as well that this yellow flower conceals, the colour of passing from life to death, like the revolution that the women created to give birth to a better and more just world.
The commercial exploitation of our day has taken the meaning out of this day to the degree that many women know nothing about its origin and actually wish to abolish it. Who are the ones who no longer desire this day? The identity of these women is clear. First of all, they are westernised women who form part of the new generation, emancipated and who have achieved their objectives in the political, financial, professional and social fields. But perhaps mature women who have lived their younger days during the fifties, remember the real meaning of the 8th of March.
More than abolishing Woman's Day, we should give its real meaning back again, Let us remember the women in the Middle East, of those who have no say about their lives, of those who are obliged to carry on with sacrifice, pain and resignation.
Happy 8th of March:
To all those women who cannot have their photo taken
To those who are not allowed to let their hair play in the wind
To others who cannot smoke a cigarette as they would be considered prostitutes
To woman who undergo cruelty within the four walls of their houses
To others who have to wear a chador or go to prison
To those who are obliged to walk the streets every night
To those who are considered untrustworthy
To all the women who for one day at least may feel free to think, act and
speak because there is nothing more cruel than having to spend
your life in prison.
