Happy International Women's Day!
Today is International Women's Day, a day to honor and celebrate the better half of humanity. Celebrated on March 8 every year since 1909, in recent years it has taken even greater significance given the "Day Without A Woman" and the International Women's Strike taking place today, in which many participating Women refuse to do any paid OR unpaid work today. Unfortunately not every Woman is privileged enough to be able to do this, and this fact has led to some criticism but those who cannot will likely do other actions (wearing red, avoiding shopping except at small, Women-owned and minority-owned businesses, etc.) instead in a show of solidarity. The more Women that participate in one way or another, the more likely it will be to effect lasting social change overall. To paraphrase Voltaire, if we make the perfect the enemy of the good, we ultimately end up with neither.
It is also worth noting that the nascent movement for a Universal Basic Income Guarantee is a textbook example of a serious feminist issue as well, not least of which because, as Judith Schulevitz notes, it's "payback time for Women" given their long history of underpaid and unpaid work that continues to this day. A UBI would also effectively make women less economically dependent on men, reducing the chances for abuse of all kinds. And aside from general concern for social justice, a UBI also a way to defuse the ticking time bomb known as men, who are becoming increasingly redundant as time goes on. Men are most dangerous when either 1) they have too much power relative to Women, and/or 2) they are desperate for money. A UBI would go a long way to solving all of these problems.
VIVE LA FEMME! VIVE LA DIFFERENCE!
