AWESOME INITIATIVE FOR CELEBRATING WOMENS DAY. But,
Except this. “No woman on the jury board”.
Why this is problematic?
Because, it’s excluding women from being authority.
We women celebrate our womanhood daily, along with its blessings and curses. Regardless it’s pros and cons. There’s an urban saying that, “8th of March is the Women’s day but the rest 364 days are Mens!”.
As a women we’ve all experienced negligence, mansplaining, labelled (too “girly”/ too “manly”), misogyny, not to mention lack of authority at least once in our life time if not more. So I wouldn’t be wrong if I put it as “This is for your relaxation (for 1day)”. Even though a female is questioning the decision itself. Not to mention it wasn’t discussed throughly with the “female panel of mods” about what do “THEY” want. It’s like going to a surprise date and the man ordering on your behalf without asking what do you want to eat. (Obviously it was a good intended surprise but part of it screaming out loud is “your opinion didn’t matter cause I chose to surprise you”). Spoon feeding women about what they want is not a good idea ever, specially on womens day! Just saying.
I’m having this ripping off the band-aid moment when I had to say this on the thread.
Ps: I have no doubts about the extent of caliber or expertise the current jury board brings to the table. I have full faith on their chivalry. My text is more about voice being heard regardless it’s for women or men.
“Maybe”
A “maybe” is women’s best friend. We say maybe a lot. maybe he didn’t mean it that way - maybe I’ve misheard - maybe it’s in my head - maybe it’s for my own good. So may maybes.
But maybe we should take action to change the narrative this time?
Besides, we women didn’t need a day off from being authority to reflect on our womenhood. If needed we can always ask for it since the competition is for both women and men. It’s off putting on so many ways that male mods will judge WOMEN’s Day competition entries where female mods had no idea about its existence. Specially when we had so many talented women on the panel with their own perks at their respective field of work, personality, being multilingual where they won’t need Google Translation’s assistance and years of experiences of being a Woman.
The occasion SHOULD be more for men to understand womenhood, explore and research about women, and reflect that with a creative manner by participating on the competition. Since 4 male mod will be excluded from the competition due to their Jury responsibilities, it’s a 4 great men we are losing to understand us more, to understand our daily struggles, to have their influence on their peers to understand us. I am mourning for that.
As a woman myself and for my peers, I feel robbed. Not to mention the Fame, Attention, Authority and Reaction points it might brought to the women if they were in charge.
Thanks for reading this far if you’ve read.
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