In South Africa (where i live) it will be National Women's Days on the 9th of August. This is a very important celebration as it remembers the African women who marched in protest of the pass book, which prohibited people of colour from freedom of movement. It was a peaceful protest where they handed over a document, signed by over 100,000 people to the prime minister.
They sang outside of the offices "Wathint'Abafazi Wathint'imbokodo!" which means "Now you have touched a woman, you have struck a rock".
Women of all races have suffered various forms of unfair treatment. Up until the very end of the apartheid regime in the 1990's, a white women (by far the group with the most freedom) could not do something as simple as open a bank account without the permission of her husband. It has been a long struggle for women in South Africa and even today they continue to suffer greatly.
When I saw a local club I like to hang out at had invited me to attend a celebration of Women's Day I decided to check out the details. I got so angry to see that how they planned to celebrate included hugely cheap drinks (to encourage binge drinking) and a wet t-shirt competition! Essentially just a marketing strategy that flies in the face of everything Women's Day should be about.
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Exactly! Wet-t'shirt competitions are not a way to celebrate women.
Please click into the link which is the Facebook page for this event and leave comments questioning how this honours the women of South Africa.