Why I'm quietly boycotting International Women's Day ✒️ y_alibhai for ipaperviews
An Afghan woman weaves a carpet at a traditional carpet factory in Kabul, Afghanistan
This day – previously truly significant and meaningful for women across the world – is now used by big business for reputation laundering and commercial advantage. They sell cool products, including T-shirts proclaiming feminism, hairbrushes saying “I Can and I Will, Watch Me” and 48 cupcakes and host lunches where famous females share their stories.
In 2020, Vivienne Hayes, the chief executive of the Women’s Resource Centre, a national umbrella organisation for the women’s sector, warned: “This use of International Women’s Day by companies is part of the co-option of feminism and women’s equality into a much more mainstream position that has led to the corporatisation of the advancement of women’s rights.The first reported Women’s Day was held on 28 February 1909 in New York City, organised by the Socialist Party of America.
In the past year, an officer was jailed for 24 rapes, and in 2021 two officers were jailed for sharing photos of two murdered sisters. And a public inquiry heard how undercover officers regularly deceived women into sexual relationships because of “endemic” sexism within the Metropolitan Police.in October 2021: “People said something had changed with the awful death of Sarah Everard. But the message certainly hasn’t reached the men who rape, harm and kill women.
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