Today is women's Day, and I ask my self if people have reflected the significance beyond the traditional concepts and clichés of women "construct" that prevails today in the imaginary of modern commercial society.
(...) We are exhorted, said Beauvoir (1949): "Be women, remain women, become women." Therefore, every female human being is not necessarily a woman; It has to participate in this mysterious and threatened reality that is femininity. Is this femininity secreted by the ovaries? Or is it fixed at the bottom of a platonic sky? is the Frou-frou of a skirt enough to make it descend to Earth?
I don't think so... Dawn and read everywhere "Happy day to the most beautiful of the world " "Girls just have to take eyes to get what we want " "Publish a dress in her day, that makes her happy ", does it make us? Who? I get what I want by using my intellectual strength and my happiness is not in a dress, but in freedom of thought and in the recognition of women not as objects, but as social subject with identity.
Women's Day is one of those anniversaries in which I feel really strange because everyone is responsible for making an apology to the physical beauty of our genre. They congratulate us because we're "beautiful." It seems that being a woman is summarized to the figure, to the external, to the biological, for that part of the society we are just a thing whose value is in the appearance and go clarify that not in the natural, but in the acquired one. None of those who congratulate me talk about the struggles of indigenous Latin American women, or women who raise the voice for equal work in every corner of the planet, none of the people who come to me with a rose make me commemorate the tragedy of Triangle Shirtwaist. And yes, you'll probably say I'm a feminist, and I get it, because if you see it this way, having an opinion makes me different from what it's supposed to be. But in any case, today is not a pink day, it is an eminently political day. So I don't think you need to congratulate me today, because if you do it under this superficial perspective, then I'm not a woman, not the woman you want me to be.
Hoy es Día de la Mujer, y me pregunto si la gente ha reflexionado su significación más allá de los conceptos tradicionales y de los clichés de la mujer "constructo" que hoy prevalece en el imaginario de la sociedad comercial moderna.
(...) Se nos exhorta, decía Beauvoir (1949): «Sed mujeres, seguid siendo mujeres, convertíos en mujeres.» Así, pues, todo ser humano hembra no es necesariamente una mujer; tiene que participar de esa realidad misteriosa y amenazada que es la feminidad. Esta feminidad ¿la secretan los ovarios? ¿O está fijada en el fondo de un cielo platónico? ¿Basta el frou-frou de una falda para hacer que descienda a la Tierra?
No lo creo... Amanece y leo por doquier "feliz día a lo más bello del mundo", "a nosotras nos basta con echar ojitos para conseguir lo que queremos", "regálales un vestido en su día, eso las hace felices", ¿nos hace? ¿A quiénes? Yo consigo lo que quiero haciendo uso de mi fuerza intelectual y mi felicidad no se halla en un vestido, sino en la libertad de pensamiento y en el reconocimiento de la mujer no como objeto, sino como sujeto social con identidad.
El día de la mujer es una de esas efemérides en las que me siento rara porque todos se encargan de hacer una apología a la belleza física de nuestro género. Nos felicitan porque somos "bellas". Parece que ser mujer se resume a la figura, a lo externo, a lo biológico, para esa parte de la sociedad somos una cosa cuyo valor se halla en la apariencia y vaya aclarar que no en la natural, sino en la adquirida. Ninguno de los que me felicitan hablan de las luchas de las mujeres indígenas latinoamericanas, o de las mujeres que levantan la voz en pro de la igualdad laboral en cada rincón del planeta, ninguna de las personas que vienen a mi con una rosa me hacen conmemorar la tragedia del Triangle Shirtwaist. Y sí, seguramente dirás que soy una feminista, y lo entiendo, porque si lo ves de este modo, tener opinión me hace diferente a lo que se supone debería ser. Pero en cualquier caso, hoy no es un día rosa, es un día eminentemente político. Así que creo que no hace falta que me felicites hoy, porque si lo haces bajo esta perspectiva superficial, entonces no soy una mujer, no la que tú quieres que sea.
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Nice writing! You are right in that being female does not make someone a woman. She must become a woman as a person. The same is true for men. For a man to be a man it is more than being male. He must step up and "be a man".
Totally agree @spencercoffman. Have a great day
You as well!
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Beautiful, and Happy Women's Day to you!
Thank you so much, @adriansky Have a great day!
Nice thoughts ...
@harsh1309 Thank you