First a couple of sentences about Victoria Benedictsson. I was given the task to make my own literary canon. An impossible one as I found myself getting tied up in perspectives, but I lovingly remembered the first time I read Ur Mörkret, a sad yet perfectly composed story about a girl being brought up by her father and how she eventually came to detest her own gender simply because she couldn't live up to a male ideal. It's hard to be forgiven for being born a woman.
Then, today is also International women's day. Not the day for international women, but a day to remember that the fight for equality is very much still fought, every day still. So I mentioned it to an American friend, that appearantly never heard of it. That's a disgrace. In the sexual revolution the US was on top, women's rights were a big deal, women's camps and conferences, last time I heard about this part in modern history is when I listened to the P3 documentary about the history of female orgasm (if you know Swedish you can download it here) All I can think to ask is, what happened?! International women's day was always a big thing in school, as was UN day, and I grew up in the least gender equal part of Sweden, it still is by the way, it was in the news today, even.
Maybe it doesn't even matter what happened, it just reminds me that the world is hardly ready for the post feminism era. Either way I wish all women would get the chance to do with their lives as they please and don't feel forced to bleed on their wedding night. The idea of hymen is just another myth to control women's bodies, and deprive them of the human right to be their own masters. A woman's body is never quite her own, is it? There's always someone having an opinion on how it should look and what she should do with it. Again, that's why we need this day to begin with.
Then, today is also International women's day. Not the day for international women, but a day to remember that the fight for equality is very much still fought, every day still. So I mentioned it to an American friend, that appearantly never heard of it. That's a disgrace. In the sexual revolution the US was on top, women's rights were a big deal, women's camps and conferences, last time I heard about this part in modern history is when I listened to the P3 documentary about the history of female orgasm (if you know Swedish you can download it here) All I can think to ask is, what happened?! International women's day was always a big thing in school, as was UN day, and I grew up in the least gender equal part of Sweden, it still is by the way, it was in the news today, even.
Maybe it doesn't even matter what happened, it just reminds me that the world is hardly ready for the post feminism era. Either way I wish all women would get the chance to do with their lives as they please and don't feel forced to bleed on their wedding night. The idea of hymen is just another myth to control women's bodies, and deprive them of the human right to be their own masters. A woman's body is never quite her own, is it? There's always someone having an opinion on how it should look and what she should do with it. Again, that's why we need this day to begin with.
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