Men versus Women!
8 March is a day for women. I don’t see any reason why it should be so! I personally think it is not wise to keep separating men and women with any kind of excuse. In our age and time it's apparent that all human beings are entitled to the same rights and those who are still opposing it won't last so long. Well at least I hope they wouldn’t!
Looking back at the history of the struggle to redeem the humane status of women throughout the history is truly touching. The suffragettes and all those who did the same for women in their countries are considered heroes nowadays. But I don’t assume our age is in need of such radical movements, or maybe I'm wrong!
All I'm trying to say here is that we just have to go out there and do things practically and achieve as much as we can achieve and act as if it's the only normal way! Now I know there are obstacles but I think feminine intelligence is enough to tackle nearly all of them.
Many foreigners believe Iranian women are extremely oppressed and brutalized; well I've got good news for you, that's not true! I'm surely not claiming that we are one big happy gender in Iran, no we are not. There are many defects in the law or social attributes that hinder our full growth and progress but we are not prisoners in our father or husband's home! Well at least I haven’t seen any woman in my 26 years of existence that is in such condition!
Violence against women exists for sure, but it exists everywhere, who are we kidding here? We have more girls in the universities than boys! We have girls moving up in their careers and job environments and sharing the same amount of respect or even more! We have a society that pampers women by regarding them as delicate objects of affection and we have a culture that does not oblige women to change their maiden name after marriage. We all keep our own name and do not suddenly turn into part of our husband's heritage! Our language is nowhere near a sexist one. No differentiation has been made between feminine or masculine nouns, verbs or anything else! As Khodadad once put it so smartly "we don’t have to repeat this his/her thing all the time!"
The Islamic law has defects, especially regarding women rights and that is not deniable. This issue I think is one that has to be addressed academically by professional lawyers and lawmakers. By radical movements, useless showy meetings, demonstrations or separating genders more and more no positive change will come along, in my opinion.
Anyways I do hope for a free world for all, men and women included!
