On the International Woman’s Day

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I believe that allocating a day to celebrate women is much more a reducing  of women’s existence in  one day rather than honoring their contributions and  sacrifices . It is as though we reduce  the whole existence, dignity, and contribution of women in one day and this day is a day of rewarding, very much like labors who get their wages at the end of the Month, and as soon  as this day is over the whole society goes back to its old habit that of reducing , marginalizing and belittling their role in serving not only society but humanity as whole. We certainly need more than one day to  show  our respect , love and  gratitude and to honor women’ role in our lives . Indeed, we have to celebrate women everyday .

Many thanks for all women who serve humanity not through criticizing patriarchy and reproducing  the  discourse of Otherness  but mainly women who despite all the obstacles manage to advance their status  and contribute in society’s welfare not  through the very idea of being a women as a  victim and a  subaltern,  as feminist would nonsensically claim,  but through competence, hard  work ,and self-confidence . As Tarik  Ramadan said in one  of his fascinating lectures ‘ my advice forArab and Muslim women is to stop being victims   and to stop nurturing  the victim mentality ‘’. As  it is the high time to value and treasure women’s role in society is also necessary to move beyond the binary oppisitionality of man and woman that has been put forward and invoked by some feminists. 

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