Women's Day Messages On Social Media: Pink, Patronising, And Problematic
India, March 17 -- Women's day is over and I am on a clean-up drive, deleting the countless posters & videos that flooded social media on that day. Most of them coloured pink had acronyms, poems on women, painting a rosy picture (quite literally with red hearts and flowers).
Are these posters really celebrating women?
Incidentally post women's day celebrations there has been back-to-back incidents attacking women. A girl was harassed during holi festival and another girl in UP was raped. Are women's day celebrations with their messaging really conveying what is actually needed to be conveyed?
Why is International women's day celebrated?
It is a day celebrating the social, economic and political achievements of women for achieving whic...
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