It’s Evolution, Baby!
International Women’s day was celebrated last week, as it has been done since the first quarter of the 1900’s. Looking back at how it was decided to add a Women’s Day on the world’s yearly agenda, March 8th reflects the ‘story of ordinary women as makers of history’. As most of you would know, on the last Sunday of February (23rd) in 1917, in Russia, women went on strike for ‘bread and peace’, -after losing two million men in wars-, and the elite of the times attempted to harshly stop the protests. Women went on anyway, and four days later, after the abdication of the Czar, they were even granted the right to vote. That Sunday of strikes, which is the 8th of March on the Gregorian calendar, has been celebrated as Women’s Day today.
Has anything changed for the situation of women in about a hundred years? Yes, some things changed in a positive way, at least on paper. Legally, women have the same status as men do in most democratic countries. Traditionally, however, do the world’s people act as modern as they think they are in the 21st century concerning issues related with women? Not very likely.
We’re in a world of choices, and this is called progress. We’re more developed and modern in that at the same time we are communicating with the other side of the world, getting footage from Mars, we also motivate our sons to murder their sisters in the name of tradition, or just do the job ourselves, if we get lucky enough. This is all of us. We chose it this way. This is mankind in the 21st century. If you don’t have any objections, face it. Do you know any other species with this much contradiction of primitiveness and modernity? At least the ones on the Discovery Channel accept that they are animals and try not to act differently.
I don’t believe in the equality of men and women. Even men and women are not equal between themselves, how can we be equal altogether? Blame it on evolution and get rid of the responsibility: today is the day of inequality.

Efe Peker (POLS/IV)