THE ORIGIN OF 8 MARCH
Yesterday was March 8, what we hastily call “Women’s Day”, but it would be correct to call it “International Women’s Day”, an occasion that was not born by chance.
It has little to do with improvised strippers, disco nights of dubious taste, and everything that distracts from the real function of a day that we should celebrate with concrete actions and less sterile “wishes”.
Nothing to do even with the false historian of the fire of Cottons & Cottons, a shirt factory in the United States, in fact that was a well-designed ploy to instill a sacredness to the occasion to justify its existence.
We took a step back, and it was June 14 1921, when the Second Conference of Communist Women was held in Moscow, and after so many attempts in fits and starts, “International Workers’ Day” was officially established. The day goes back to February 8 ’17 when the Russian population came down to protest against the Tsar.
WHY MIMOSA?
For mimosa we have to wait until ’46, in Italy, women had just reached the goal of Universal Suffrage. Teresa Mattei, a former partisan proposed to combine a flower with the anniversary, which was easy to find in March when Spring appears timidly, the choice fell on mimosa, already a symbol of partisans and relay teams. Then even late: give them away!
Teresa Mattei Neo Deputy in a old photo:
“WORDS ARE IMPORTANT”
“Words are important, those who speak badly, think badly and live badly”
Said Nanni Moretti in Palombella Rossa. One would say that they are more important than ever when there are over 111 million people listening to them. A few days before International Women’s Day, Barba Palombelli journalist and face of Mediaset, at the co-conduct of the penultimate evening, rattles off a monologue dedicated to women, or rather to “real women”, quoting verbatim.
A dedication that turns into a list without transport of life experiences.
The study “to tears”, crosses the work carried out “until independence”, because “in the end it works “. A speech that clashes with the one given by Elodie the previous evening and that made just reference to that slice of society, therefore also of women, cut off from studying and from work that allows at a certain point to be able to debut a “in the end it works” to the famous 11 million viewers mentioned above.
A few superficial references to the untimely death of Luigi Tenco which took place during the 1967 edition, to Liliana Segre, and a concluding warning that encourages the “girls” to run towards the future, to put a country that is collapsing to pieces on its feet , or perhaps it cracked a long time ago, by the hand of the same generation as Barbara Palombelli.
Because the revolution that WOMEN need comes from words, starting with the name they give us. We are no longer interested in being called girls, females, maidens, or “real” women who by subtraction implies the presence of a less dignified circle.
The revolution responds to the name of “Women”, who are not interested in other labels.
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