Why is it that Women’s Day is still so serious?

The rise of online social media is changing Women’s Day, making it richer in content, but it may also be pulling away from its proper core.

Every March 8th Festival, the banners "salute" to girls pulled out by boys in various university departments are a highlight in the public opinion field. The slogans include admiration, admiration, and even flattery for female classmates, but there are also blatant sexual harassments such as "Girls' Day, when you come home late, you must let go; if you don't come home, you must open up." In other words, in addition to the traditional stereotypes of Women's Day, people also try to load it with more youthful and lively content, but many times they are blind and lack the normative yardstick for the correct attitude towards women.

Nowadays, many women refuse to mention "Women's Day" and prefer to rename the holiday "Girls' Day" or "Queen's Day". This is also the Internet’s unique value guidance of “youth is king”.

No matter how the Internet turns Women’s Day into entertainment, the political and social demands for equal rights for men and women behind it are still serious and have practical significance.

China's women's rights are undergoing leapfrog development, and because of the leap, they may be subject to pressure from different directions: from traditional society, to modernity, and even to postmodernity.

In China today, the devaluation and harm to women comes from Western materialism, which commercializes and materializes the image of women; and even worse from the "pre-modern", naked trafficking of women, Sexual exploitation and other crimes; there are stereotyped constraints on women’s images from the past planned economy, which are directly reflected in the a priori "recruitment of men but not women" in some majors in universities; there are also individual radical feminists themselves, If you eat foreign food but don't change it, you will "fight against windmills".

We believe that with the comprehensive development of science and technology and economy, the world will be more "flat" and men and women will be more "equal". More young people in rural areas are going out to work, and the physical disadvantages of women in traditional agricultural production are being effectively made up for. This can be described as “a major change that has not happened in thousands of years.” In the "post-modern context" of metropolitan areas, some women are also independently looking for value sustenance outside the family.

Making the world more "flat" and making men and women more "equal" is a general trend, but it also requires more efforts from members of society. It has been one year since the "Anti-Domestic Violence Law" was implemented, and not long ago "24 articles of the Marriage Law Interpretation were patched"; from childhood sexual assault receiving more attention from society, to more women no longer satisfied with the status of "being written", Find independent value. All these changes are worthy of praise.

We believe that the issue of gender equality behind Women’s Day is still serious and has profound practical significance.