Women & March 8th
* MARCH 8th *
THE DAY OF THE FEMALE RISING
Every year for as long as I remember my father makes sure to hand us daughters a bunch of flowers on international women’s day. He is proud to have given life to girls, now women, who he was raised by his parents to see as equals, cherishing their strength and capability, integrity and beauty. It was a brave politically active young women, going by the name Clara Zetkin, who, amongst others, made the injustice women lived with massively visible, offering good solutions and promising ideas. My father always admired her wit and endurance, and the impact she had on the political landscape of her time, as I know many other men also see the potential we hold and cheer to our bravery and rise.
Women all over the world have fought — and still do — for their rights to be seen as equals and to gain i.e. the right to elect since 1909 (or this is the year recorded), which was granted to them in many countries eventually. Fun fact, the first to offer active and passive right to voting for women was the State of Wyoming in 1869, followed by Finnland in 1906, and only 8 years later followed by Albania, Germany, England, Austria, Poland among others. Switzerland only followed more than 60 years later in the year 1971.
As women we hold the womb of creation, literally in our body. We have strength that goes beyond imagination and the subtle quality of reading the room before any of our male partners could do. We are mothers and daughters, even if we don’t bring children into the world. The quality of giving space in which protection and nourishment, growth and comfort is inherent, is ours to claim and ours to honour. When we try to be men, we are lost, for we aren’t and they will always be better than us. When we hate ourselves for being women, we cannot come to peace with any woman in the world, nor can we fight for equality and justice. So it is crucial to make peace with those who are different and to step out of the game of comparison and conformity, as well as it seems to be necessary to find comfort in a birth right, that is more than a physical appearance and a genetic coding.
In ancient practices women were called the destroyer and the creator for it is our body, that chooses the sperm it wants to nourish, and it is our body, that will choose to destroy that same life, when it don’t see a chance to build and to raise it. What can be a hard experience to many women, is yet an inherent part of our quality. We can create, and we can destroy. And if we set our focus only on one end, it will turn against all of us. But when we remain in the center and know of those qualities, handle them with care and wisdom, we are unbeaten and we can rule the world — in my eyes, alongside with our male counterparts, not instead.
I believe there is a reason why there are two sexes. And so two it shall be, in order to create a third. So let’s reach out a hand to those beloved men, who want to see us as equals and who cherish our qualities, without questioning their own. Those men who understand that together, we are divine. To those who keep us sacred and holy, as our divine connection is the ultimate bond.
And of course I know that there is equally beautiful love between same sexes, this not what I am speaking of. I am speaking of the acknowledgement and the co-creation we can reach, when we come together, men and women, building a world that is based on our different strengths, that together create whatever NEW it is, we set our sight on.
For more equality, tolerance, connection and supportive missions:
TO US WOMEN, I CHEER.