In the elevator, I joked with a few teachers - on March 8th, do you dare to say "Happy Women's Day" to the female colleagues around you?
The male teachers hurriedly said, don't dare, don't dare.
Then a female teacher smiled and said, how can anyone directly say "Women's Day", it is called "Girls' Day" and "Queen's Day".
Indeed, according to observations, except for the use of the word "Women's Day" in trade union activities and gifts, it seems that everyone is carefully avoiding the word "women" for fear of upsetting female teachers, and no one dares to shout directly at any woman - "Happy Women's Day"!
It can be said that a man is a teenager until he dies;
A woman is a fairy until she dies.
And the main reason why many women are reluctant to be called "women" is that one is old, and the other is naturally disgusted.
In the current context, being called a "woman" seems to be like meeting someone who is not a few years younger than you and calling you "auntie" when you open your mouth.
In fact, in terms of language, as long as they are adult women, they can be called "women", not to mention those arrogant female white-collar workers, even college students.
However, according to the habit, when you add a definite term to "women", the first thing that comes to your mind is likely to be some words with a strong sense of age, such as "middle-aged women" and "middle-aged and elderly women"; But no one said, "Young women."
As for the relevant names for young women, the written and formal ones are called "young ladies", or words like "little fairy" and "little princess".
It is clear that the rejection of the word "woman" by the female group is inseparable from the anxiety about age and appearance, so much so that subconsciously and constantly self-hypnotize. I'm still a little fairy!
Another reason is that I feel that "women" are very rustic.
However, what is strange is that our older generation of women were called "women" when they were young, but they did not have this feeling of being "offended".
Moreover, women at this time generally refer to working women.
The full name of "Women's Day" is International Women's Day.
And this woman, more pointed, is working women.
Historically, the birth of International Women's Day also originated from the collective struggle of working women.
If women want to be independent, they must start from having labor opportunities, getting corresponding remuneration, and achieving economic independence - only with the ability to support themselves can women achieve true personality independence, which can talk about equality between men and women.
On March 6, 1857, women workers in the garment and textile industry in New York, USA, took to the streets in the collective ** poor working conditions and low wages.
Since then, almost every year on this day, there will be similar marches of female workers** all over the United States, and gradually spread to Europe.
In August 1910, at the Second Women's Congress of the International Socialists held in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, the famous German socialist revolutionary Clara Zetkin proposed to take March 8 as the day of struggle for women all over the world.
After the October Revolution, the Soviet Union became the first country to designate March 8 as a national holiday. The Soviet Union was the country with the highest female labor force participation rate during that time.
On this day, enterprises and institutions in the republics of the Soviet Union will specially distribute benefits and organize celebrations.
It's International Women's Day, and male employees of an electronics factory are competing to cook.
This is the Latvian SSR. On the eve of International Women's Day, men are hand-picking gifts for their partners.
Perfume was a favorite gift for men in the Soviet Union.
And, as shown in the old Soviet poster below, Women's Day, is Working Women's Day. This "labor" includes all walks of life, both physical and mental.
As mentioned earlier, originally, we were similar to the Soviet Union, whether it was Women's Day or the title of woman, everyone readily accepted it, and our older generation of women were called "women" when they were young, and they did not feel "offended" today.
However, gradually, with the "White Day", "Goddess Day, etc.", these "more foreign" festivals, "March 8 Women's Day" has become more and more "earthy".
The term "woman" is also frowned upon.
A woman from an ordinary family, as long as she is not too old, will be called a little fairy.
And boys born in the same ordinary family will be called poor dicks.
And any woman should be kind to herself and love her, and she should give her the card to swipe. Men are responsible for earning money to support their families, and women are responsible for being beautiful like flowers.
Literally, it seems that women have stood at the top of the food chain and have a supreme status. But in fact, behind this is just a "play" of capital harvesting leeks.
Why did capital create these festivals? The answer is very simple, because the festival is just a reason and excuse, and the core purpose is to let women spend money, and at the same time let men also spend money on women, so that women feel that spending money is a natural thing - if you are good for yourself, you must be willing to spend money on yourself.
After a long time, in the above context, many women began to be ashamed of women, and even more ashamed of labor, and all they thought about was how to become a small public act that was spoiled and cared for by the domineering president for a lifetime.
And Women's Day, as mentioned earlier, highlights the great contribution made by working women to human progress, and the value is that "women can hold up half the sky", not a festival that promotes unconditional pampering of "small public acts" and must "buy, buy, buy".
The original meaning is "women can do anything", not "women wants everything".
Women's Day, this festival, carries two meanings:
One is the labor attribute, and the other is the gender attribute.
It has endured several generations of struggle and countless bloodshed and sacrifices, and is a scene in the proletarian workers' movement. This festival is also a tribute to the struggle of the majority of female predecessors, as well as a proof that "women can hold up half the sky".
If it is changed to a "Goddess Festival", the above-mentioned thick sense of history will naturally disappear.
What's more, if it weren't for the hard work of several generations of "working women" for more than 100 years, today's "little fairies" may not have the opportunity and ability to discuss the topic of "Goddess Day and Queen's Day instead of Women's Day".
To this day, in Russia and many former Soviet regions, the tradition of celebrating "March 8th Labor Women's Day" is still preserved.
They are especially popular, and the custom of soldiers and police officers taking the initiative to offer flowers to passing ladies on that day is popular.
Whether the other party is a young girl, a primary school student, or a fat aunt.
The traffic police "checked" the female driver on this day - sending flowers to the female driver.
Even Ukraine, which is trying its best to "de-Russify" and "de-Sovietize", celebrates this holiday in the midst of war.
It is said that the tradition of sending flowers by the military and police originated from the March 8 Women's Day in 1944, a "hardcore romance" of the Soviet army in Leningrad.
Leningrad, also Putin's hometown, restored the old name of the old capital of Tsarist Russia - St. Petersburg when the Soviet Union collapsed.
The Battle of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War was the longest, most destructive, and deadliest battle in modern history to defend the city - from the official siege of the German army on September 9, 1941 to the complete lifting of the siege on January 27, 1944, a total of 882 days, the most difficult time, even the rats in the city were eaten.
In June 1942, in the besieged city of Leningrad, people were already weak enough to walk on crutches, but still kept as neat and decent as possible.
On January 27, 1944, after endless bombardment, several bitter winters, and the test of lack of food, fuel and infectious diseases, Leningrad was completely liberated, and only 560,000 of the 2.5 million citizens at the beginning of the siege remained.
The Soviet army has paid the price of more than 1.3 million officers and soldiers, and the soldiers who defend the city have changed several times.
Soon after, Leningrad ushered in the first International Women's Day after the liberation of the siege. The Soviet army specially used fighter jets to drop a large number of flowers for the women of Leningrad.
At this point, you may have to admit that behind this rough nation, celebrating Women's Day has such a thick sense of history, filled with such romance, sadness and tenacity.
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