Today is March 8th, International Women’s Day…
When we look at the history of today from reference books;
“On March 8, 1857, 40,000 textile workers in New York City, USA started a strike in a textile factory demanding better working conditions. However, the police’s attack on the workers and the workers being locked in the factory, followed by the fire that broke out resulting in 129 female workers losing their lives as they couldn’t escape from the barricades set up in front of the factory. More than 10,000 people attended the workers’ funeral ceremony.
On August 26-27, 1910, at a meeting of women affiliated with the 2nd International in Copenhagen, Denmark (International Socialist Women’s Conference), Clara Zetkin, one of the leaders of the German Social Democratic Party, brought the proposal to commemorate March 8th as “Internationaler Frauentag” (International Women’s Day – World Women’s Day) in memory of the female workers who died in the textile factory fire on March 8, 1857, and the proposal was unanimously accepted.
In the first years, no specific date was determined. The date was determined as March 8 in 1921 at the 3rd International Women’s Conference (3rd International Communist Parties Meeting) held in Moscow. The name was also determined as “World Working Women’s Day”. World Women’s Day, whose commemoration was banned in some countries between the First and Second World Wars, came to the agenda more strongly when it started to be commemorated in the United States in the late 1960s. The United Nations General Assembly accepted the commemoration of March 8 as “World Women’s Day” on December 16, 1977. In the section related to the day’s history on the United Nations website, it wasn’t written that the celebration was done in memory of the workers who died in New York,” we can learn this information.
March 8 celebrated today has nothing to do with March 8 we read from reference books, I think.
Woman and man…
Both women and men need each other. This need is a beautiful communication and sharing. Just as I don’t like extremes, discourse that praises and exalts only one gender, like feminist and such, are in my opinion statements that have no substance, not worth even a fig seed, rowing in vain.
What does it matter if woman is superior to man?
What does it matter if man is superior to woman?
What are we trying to prove in the end… If man is superior to woman or if woman is superior to man, there is no one who will win, there is only We who will lose.
This reflects the relationship between nature and humans. Humans fighting with nature lose. There are no winners.
When separate lanes are entered in the woman and man relationship, We become the losers.
While we can sign many beautiful sharings together, the marginalization of women or the marginalization of men by feminists is a terrible delusion in my opinion.
That’s why I find such days and celebrations under the name of special days unnecessary and strange. If it’s to be celebrated, a commemoration ceremony should be held for the people mentioned in history…