March 8, 1857. Indeed no, 1911. Indeed not March, February. In short, it is said that years ago, on an undefined date, 134 workers lost their lives in the fire of a shirt factory due to precarious security conditions. But maybe they weren't 134, and maybe the factory didn't exist at all, or rather it was already closed. Do we seem confused? In reality we are not, on the contrary: we are talking about an invented episode!
The history of women's day
Yes, because in reality the idea of International Women's Day came to the American Socialist Party in 1909. This idea was later picked up by Clara Zetkin during the International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1910. Until 1921, however, the various countries they chose different dates for the celebration of this day, also because the reasons for which the date of March 8 was chosen remain unclear. On the occasion of the Second Conference of Communist Women, held in Moscow in 1921, a single date was proposed and approved, chosen in memory of the demonstration against the Tsarism of the Women of St. Petersburg in 1917.
The mimosa soon became the symbol of International Women's Day, as an inexpensive and seasonal flower. Then came the Perugina kisses, the teddy bears and strippers adorned with improbable thongs and everything was lost. What is now known as Women's Day has become a race for gifts otherwise my girl kills me, to the evenings between women in which to give the worst of oneself style another man in change will see you next and to the gender hysteria of those who scream at violated rights and who on the other hand accuse a sort of racism, but without anyone fully grasping the meaning of what they say.
Gender struggle vs rights alliance
First of all, the writer does not really explain how a struggle in favor of rights can be proposed as a war between distinct factions. In a Hobbesian conception of reality it seems that I cannot achieve something except by taking it away from others. It also sounds very strange the fact that one's own country and those who live there, pass from infamous accusations of ferocious disrespect towards women, to Smurfs' Village with all its inhabitants all flowers and hearts, when (and if) placed in comparison with other - not well defined - cultures, condemned in toto by virtue of a vulgar treatment reserved for women.
Far from wanting to deny the persistence of some execrable phenomena, such as stoning or female genital mutilation, it is also true that these should be precisely circumscribed and fought with information and culture, as well as with the attempt at resolution, or at least contingency, of the precarious living conditions of some groups in which certain legacies are the children of hunger and closure. Certainly not everything is fought with the pen, but we doubt the effectiveness of hoping for the destruction of entire continents as well.
Italy and Western countries
Returning to the battle in Western and Westernized countries, a bit of clarity should be made. First of all, it should be made clear, especially to some women, that we are NOT men. We are not all the same, but profoundly different. But diversity is not inferiority but wealth. A wealth from which to mutually draw if well preserved and respected.
The bloody and numerous cases of femicide are undeniable, even in our country. But there are just as many men who have a deep respect for women, whether they are companions, mothers, sisters, friends or strangers. And it is with these men that we women should ally ourselves. We should do this to show those who don't treat us as they should that there is a viable alternative. We should do this to educate future generations to respect as well. Educate them not to respect the woman, but to respect the other and his dignity as a living being. We should do it to look beyond our noses, to lend a hand, each with their own possibilities, to those who have more serious problems than choosing the place for March 8th.
