March is recognised internationally as Women’s Month.
This year, I was part of the UN Women’s CSW69 cohort this year. An intensive two weeks bursting at its seams.
Two weeks of bringing women and some men from all nooks and crannies of the Globe together and you can only imagine the heat erupting out of that space
There were lots of takeaway moments. Participants kept sharing nuggets via graphics. Below are two of such:
It seems that the average man has been conditioned to find his validation in a woman’s admiration. He had been taught that when a woman expresses the power of her Agency, that is a direct affront on him. And the penalty is to attack. It does not matter if the attack be physical, sexual, financial, emotional or even outright elimination — what matters is that he must find a way to show her he is a man — even if his children become collateral damages. And not to think anything of it.
Amaraya
“Men who claim a woman belongs to the Kitchen are the same men who want a female doctor to attend their wives”
CSW Speaker
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