One fine year, in the not so distant future, there was no need for Women’s Day. Because women had all that they ever wanted and it became pointless to draw so much attention to the female gender. And well, companies decided they needed a new marketing plan to get people to buy their products, but that’s beside the point.
It was a year when women were finally treated like humans (phew, that took some work).
– They were asked for permission before someone touched their bodies.
– They were not criticized for being too fat, thin, dark, fair, tall, short, hunch-backed or any such thing.
– The media finally stopped making advertisements with ridiculous taglines like ‘you’re worth it’ (was that ever in question?).
– No one told them what clothes to wear or how loud to talk or how to run or how to smile or how to shyly look away when someone paid them a compliment. Each woman made those rules for herself.
– The media started portraying ‘real’ women more and more – women with not-so-perfect skin, women with stretch marks, women with dull hair, women who were few kilos overweight. And they all looked gorgeous – because, well, in the new world, they all just were.
– ‘Marital status’ stopped being criteria on job applications.
– New mothers were not discarded when they produced a female child (people finally figured out that it was the father’s chromosome all along that caused that!).
– Job interviews didn’t begin and end with ‘we’re sorry, you’re very qualified, but there are huge gaps in your resume, we’d prefer if you were married to your job instead’.
– Women finally started being ‘healthy’ rather than ‘thin’.
– A girl/woman could walk from point A to point B without being accompanied by catcalls or lewd comments.
– Men finally figured out that the proper way to talk to a woman was to look into her eyes and not her breasts.
– Women weren’t evaluated against the backdrop of the achievements of the male gender (smarter than men, more hardworking than men, as good as a man at working in a factory, and so on). They made their own achievements.
– There were no more soap operas on TV that showed women being each other’s worst enemies.
– Women didn’t die due to lack of medical facilities – especially during pregnancy and childbirth.
– Girls and women stopped being only objects of sex, because anyone who viewed them that way was severely punished without a moment’s hesitation.
– The glass ceiling was just that – a room with glass on top.
– It became immaterial whether the individual was male or female, when human rights were violated it was severely and resolutely dealt with.