The festival of ‘the woman’ is being turned into a commodity, writes Frida Ghitis. Ghitis worked in a factory in which all, absolutely all of the line workers were women.

There is even a nightclub that today gives free drinks to customers, Ghitis writes. “If something is free, it is that you are the product,” says Ghitis, long before the Internet. “Why not a pimp proudly joining the party because he takes good care of the girls he exploits, buys, sells and rents by the hour?"