Pride Parade 2023 Tel Aviv/Niv Aharonson live from Dan Hotel Tel Aviv
At the beginning of Every Woman's March, we received the email at work that says "We have decided to celebrate our amazing women (in the office/organization/city/street - delete the unnecessary), in honor of Women's Day, we invite only you to celebrate yourselves."
The problem is the celebration, that instead of having something fun like a gift card (what's wrong with a gift card??), a massage, sushi, girls' karaoke - or in fact anything else that involves sitting for two hours in a heavy lecture of empowerment, which is sometimes also delivered by a woman who survived an attempted murder in the family , or another "feminine" topic like "Tapping into Your Inner Superwoman."
By and large, almost no one feels that the very fact of being a woman is being celebrated by these means, because it means that we have to spend two hours of the working day in an activity that not only cannot be considered "celebration", but that it actively sucks, and only reminds all women, wherever they are, how depressing it is to be Women, what with those women having to stay two hours later at work to complete tasks.
Why isn't International Women's Day really celebrated, like for example the Pride Parade?
Who would buy these messages of inner strength and general awesomeness when sold like this?
We need to learn from the gays - who understood how to do it, and convinced us all how much fun it is for them to be who they are.
To talk about self-love and convey a message of strength, it is much more convincing to dance on a truck in your underwear than to take part in all the mercy activities offered to us on Women's Day, and the pride parade is one of the happiest events every year, and pride parties are sought-after and expensive events that you don't need to convince anyone to come to .
I can't explain to you how many depressing emails I receive regarding Women's Day.
I want to cover, I want to praise, but I can't - because it doesn't interest anyone.
Like for example this email:
The pride parade in Tel Aviv.
June 8, 2023/Ruben Castro
"Ahead of the approaching Women's Day, I was wondering if you are expecting a feature article about women in companies in the economy?"
(This is a conference in the field of data science, by Intuit, which employs almost 50% women in their company and was ranked 7th in the list of the best high-tech companies to work for, the best for parents and the most diverse. In April, the company will hold the WiDS conference for the seventh year in Tel Aviv, when I receive an
like this, and I really want to do something, to help, to cheer for women, to cheer for cheerleaders, for events, for everything related to us, because we are amazing - but why do you make it so difficult for me?
My answer - the real one, copied from the e-mail, was: "You tell me if the phrase 'you wrote an extensive article about women in companies in the economy' makes you want to read :)".
The only way I could mention the conference was like this, as an example of something no one would want to read about.
Women and the people of the struggle need to understand that not only human beings need to be attractive in order to stand out in such a saturated world - even an event with an idea should be seductive, such events, which by virtue of their existence already carry with them all the crap around us being women do the opposite.
The last thing we need on Women's Day is to berate the world some more with constant reminders of how hard it is to be a woman, how unfair, how dangerous.
This is precisely the day to avoid unhappy letters, and items that come out of necessity in editions.
No one wants to see them, no matter how many Slavs draw Doby's sentences from autograph.
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At this point in our lives, it seems to me that we should stop playing defense, or rather defensiveness, and start adopting a different, happier narrative that truly celebrates femininity.
Personally, I'm tired of the constant "whack a mole" game (a game where you hit the heads of moles that dare to peek on the surface) where instead of moles we hit ideas, sentences, habits, and men that we don't like because they remind us of the " before", while the preoccupation with everything that is not good only delays us further.
In my humble opinion, we need to change direction, and start promoting the messages in a much more exciting way.
It's enough to transfer them, we don't have to be stern, righteous, and demonstrative.
We should really celebrate what and who we are, and even in the more representative and official moments we must not lose our passion and sense of humor.
For starters, maybe you should get out of this constant section of "I deserve it because I've been wronged for years", "I'm powerful and don't argue with me about what that means", "I'm a survivor and therefore everyone must follow me on balls".
Stop with this cruise that we all already know by heart and move on to the next place, where we don't have to be a victim with a terrible life story, or engage in obsessive glass ceiling breaking.
Not everyone has to be a CEO and sacrifice everything else for that. You can be a strong and powerful woman even when you just enjoy being a woman, who doesn't hide femininity or look for a new interpretation of it, and above all - who doesn't need to forge weapons or armor from her. We don't either You must be "powerful" every moment of the day, you don't have to love every cellulite on our body and look through a small mirror at your own vagina and sing songs to it. You also don't have to be Super Woman and do everything and then be interviewed about the fact that you did everything. You can also just be a painter, or a secretary , or a social media expert or a cute housewife who all she wants to do is live well and make every Liza Panelim recipe that is published. The
previous method worked some of the time and got results, but at this point, if we want someone to join the female pride parade and come to support passionately - let's try to behave More festive. Maybe dress a little nicer, put on some sparkles, and organize Women's Day events that we would like to be at. And a bonus - there will also be something to write about, take pictures of, and that way they will get the prominence they need, and the message will get through. That we are right, everyone already knows It's time to be happy to be women.
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