Written by Christina Margeti
Happy Women’s Day, although the concept of women is so sacred that we should definitely be honored and celebrated 365 days a year. But let us not forget that it is not only a celebration.
It is not only flowers, but we honor women’s struggles for freedom and equality against oppression, favoritism, and patriarchy. And these struggles, big or small, are every day. So my fat and my skinny, my normal weight and not, my tall and my short, straight or not, with or without a uterus, with two breasts or one, or none, black, white, red-skinned, yellow, religious, agnostic and atheist, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Buddhist, and whatever else, with or without political ideologies, right, left, apolitical and anarchist, rich and poor, be happy as we are and for who we are. All of us unique, special and that is exactly why we are beautiful! And let us be, let us all be one. focusing on the all-important commonalities and pushing aside which differences…
So let us love, care, and accept ourselves for who we are. Just as we were. And if we dye ourselves, for example, and so on, we should only do it because we like it and not because it is imposed by the patriarchal ideals and the unwritten rules about image and appearance that sonny and well a woman should have and well. It’s okay to dye. It’s okay not to dye. Real beauty is just being yourself, and that is always the only true beauty that comes from within. It’s also okay to have children. It’s okay not to have children. Being a woman does not automatically mean a de facto mother. Whether a woman ever wants to be a mother is purely a personal choice, according to her will. After all, today is Women’s Day. Not Mother’s Day. Mothers have another world day exclusively as mothers. I am writing the last few lines so that they can be read by some journalists on the channels who sneakily present Women’s Day as if it were one thing, Mother’s Day… We all understand the bigoted propaganda all too well…. So happy women’s day to all of us women, all femininity, no exceptions. Rejoice us!
May we rejoice in ourselves!
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