Today, on March 8, most of the world celebrates the International Women's Day. Women's day originally was celebrated as a reminder of women's constant struggle for equality and recognition. Here, in Europe, we have made some progress on that and can rest on some laurels, while also using the International Women's Day to praise the beauty and femininity of women :)
Unfortunately, not all countries have made it this far. In many coutries, women struggle every day to get same kind of treatment and acknowledgement as men, hence Women's Day is used as a way to draw attention to these problems.
But back to Europe! What nice and wacky things do people do here? In the recent years, the police in Lithuania has cultivated a nice tradition. On Women's Day, they hit the streets and pull over cars driven by women, but instead of checking their documents or giving them tickets, they give them tulips to celebrate the event.
According to the women, these encounters have left them baffled and positively surpised, some even in tears of joy. Spreading the love around works wonders and Lithuanian police are doing a fine job at it.
Time to dig this one out again - do you remember a website called "Send Crypto People Tulips"? The site was intended as a joke, when Bitcoin started it's massive ascent.
For $5 you could send tulips, to your crypto friends, if the bubble bursted - and feel smug about it. Unfortunately, the bubble is far from bursting, a small pullback here and there and money to be made on both sides :)
Although, it appears, the actual sending of tulips has been taken offline for privacy reasons, so nothing else for you to do than to head to your local florist and a grab some tulips for the women in your circles.
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Such a nice tradition in Lithuania. In Estonia, at least in Tallinn, I have seen that nice young men are sharing tulips in shopping centres on the Women's Day. Old ladies are blushing like teenagers :)
What nice and wacky things do people do here?
Is amazing tradition in Lithuania. I regret that I am not there today 😢 In Poland the old tradition is to give tulips and tights. 💏 Why? It’s came from communism - that time it was very hard to get tights somewhere so mans did everything to get and give to their women’s. 😍 And it stays until now, but unfortunately young people don’t celebrate this day that much like it was before. 😢
Tights? That's funny :)
We have come a long way but there's still a lot of work to bring equality between men and women. Women's day is a great way to remind everyone of the work that's left to do.
Greetings on women day. Always respect women. Women are mothers, sisters, daughters and wife. Love and care every day not only on women day. They deserve love and care everyday.
Thank you for reminding me of this wonderful day. And to all the women out there this is your day and you deserve it. Enjoy!
wow, on a candid note it really hit me hard to see wonderful writings about women...
I wish i could write about my mom also but its OK, I Know shes in a better place smiling down with joy in her heart that Her baby is doing great!!!!!
@furious-one thanks for these post, and please i need you to permit me I would love to print your post and place it close to her picture!!
The day women smile getting flowers and man cry spending money on them.
Just joking, Happy Women's Day. :D
That is a very nice move from Lithuania police,i think i need to pull a similar stunt here in Uganda next year with fellow Steemians.It would be more interesting if all of us are in Steemit attire!
As you said some countries women struggle for same kind of treatment like men.These many countries are in Africa where culture dictates the men to be superior!
Happy International women's day!! From Venezuela
Awesome! I love the idea of police surprising women with tulips :) This caught my attention because my International Women's Day post also features a tulip: a photograph I took last spring. I'm glad I found your blog to follow. I appreciate your quality content.
Remembering the day women remember us how they are fighting for gender equality in women and men have the same rights ...
Speaking of women is also not separated by the presence of mother figure, she is a hero for her children.
Happy International Women's Day!!! ♀👩💪🌷🌸💐💮🌹🌷💐🌺💐🌷🌸💮💮🌹🌷🌷🌷🌷🌼🌻🌺🌻🌼💐🌸🌹💮🌷🌼🌻🌺
such a nice step by police!
women deserve alot of love and respect !
we should take this day as an opportunity to make their life beautifull
I join many other people all over the world in wishing all women a happy celebration on their day. The gesture of the police in your place is really wonderful, how I wish our people over here would spread love so happily around in that way. However, I will in my little capacity spread mine.
Happy woman's day. Still there are many discrimination between boy and girls in our country. But it will developing our mind to remove it. We can do everything now besides a boy. Oneday we will see it will remove totally, I hope.
happy women to all you ladies we value you and appreciate the work that you do
thanks for sharing! i will start following your exciting posts! Checkout my posts as well
There is no celebration of women's day in my country.
If it's not prohibidabado, you should start celebrating it immediately!
Ok, thanks @furious-one