by Georgina Mumford, spiked
‘Progressive’ feminists now celebrate men pretending to be women – and Islamists who oppress women.
Following Zero Discrimination Day and World Seagrass Day earlier this month, I still think International Women’s Day (IWD) is up there with the most inane of the global ‘awareness days’. First marked well over a century ago by a group of socialist women in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, who declared it a ‘day of glory’ for women around the world, it has since devolved into a nauseating 24-hour corporate virtue-signal-athon.
Yesterday, on its 115th birthday, IWD claimed to be as committed as ever to raising awareness about ‘gender discrimination’, forging ‘gender parity’ and celebrating ‘women’s achievements’. Yet I have yet to meet a woman who has ever felt ‘celebrated’, ‘glorified’ or even mildly appreciated by the existence of this annual celebration. In fact, in recent years, International Women’s Day seems no longer to have much to do with women or women’s rights at all.
This point was rammed home when Let Women Speak founder Kellie-Jay Keen was removed from an IWD event at the Albert Hall in Nottingham yesterday. Keen had been interviewing staff members from Nottingham Women’s Centre, asking them if they offered single-sex spaces in accordance with the law. After being informed by police that these conversations had caused ‘alarm and distress’, she was frog-marched from the premises.
Read also: International Women’s Day is useless for women, The Critic