International Women's Day
Mar. 8th, 2007 10:28 amI asked this in a comment on someone else's lj, but I think this is a question of more general interest, so I'm posting it here.
Zoe Williams ranted yesterday in the Guardian and one of my flist noted something similarly icky in a locked post.
So what would be an appropriate way to celebrate or mark International Women's Day, that wasn't twee and girly-wirly, but did incorporate some element that was celebratory, while also incorporating some element of 'not there yet, are we?'*
And we notice that while lj has produced a themed Women's History Month 'virtual gift' with proceeds to charity (so a moderate 'good for them'), today is a festival that doesn't seem to have inspired them to do a special design for the day (maybe something in the suffragette colours?)
*ETA: This does rather remind me of the Jules Feiffer cartoon (which I can't find on teh internets) featuring his recurrent character of The Dancer, in which her piece of interpretative dance involves so many contradictory elements that she ends up in a contortionist huddle on the floor.