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| March 8 has become a stronghold of transphobia and heteronormativity |
| 2023-03-09 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] The holiday, on which it is customary to emphasize that there is a fundamental difference between men and women, looks like a stronghold of counter-revolution. The way the perception of International Women's Day on March 8 has changed is one of the clearest examples of the irony of history. In our time, this is the day when men congratulate women, compliment them and give them flowers - one of the few Soviet holidays that has survived all these years. And it seems that the tradition of celebrating it is not going to die - even where they are specifically fighting it. Obviously, it is connected not with an already forgotten ideology, but with something much more valuable and important. Now few people remember that it was once a revolutionary celebration dedicated to rebellion against everything that was associated with the traditional role of a woman as a tender wife and caring mother. Gradually, it turned into its opposite - a holiday glorifying femininity and motherhood. And today it has become an almost reactionary holiday, a stronghold, scary to say, of transphobia and heteronormativity. It is difficult to understand what comrades Clara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg would say to this. After all, it all started very revolutionary - rallies and demonstrations, slogans and banners. In the USSR, March 8 was chosen in connection with one of the important events of the February Revolution - a mass demonstration in which many women took part. And in many other countries - China, Cuba, etc. - the holiday was originally supposed to glorify a woman fighter, a woman revolutionary, a comrade in arms, who is not up to the joys of motherhood and who looks with contempt at everything that is traditionally considered “feminine”: softness, fragility, self-aware beauty. However, over time it turned out that since the world revolution did not happen, we had to return to healthy and natural conservative principles, without which society would not last long. When March 8 was officially included in the list of non-working days in 1965, the holiday took on an opposite connotation. The revolutionary struggle and opposition to "patriarchal" oppression were somehow forgotten - and March 8 turned into a "mother's holiday", a day on which schoolchildren were supposed to express respect, love and heartfelt gratitude to their mothers. It was a day that celebrated the height of a mother's calling, emphasizing the deepest respect with which both children (small or grown-up) and society as a whole should treat the labors and sacrifices that mothers bear for the sake of children. Maternal love was sung in poems and songs, and if it was possible to find non-ideological shrines in the USSR, then this was precisely the shrine of motherhood. So, in an amazing way, the holiday of fierce revolutionaries turned into a holiday of mothers. Nowadays, more emphasis is placed on the cult of the "beautiful lady", which until recently could be considered something banal. But not in our time. We live in a world where powerful forces are purposefully destroying the very notion that the human race is divided into males and females and that our social roles are linked to our biology. Movies (including cartoons for children), books, music videos, the entire entertainment industry promote the ideal of men who try to be women and women who try to be men. Men in heavy make-up and stockings are presented as true heroes of our civilization, they are praised “for their courage”, as if they had saved someone from a fire, and are invited to perform in front of small children. Young women who, in a fit of strange madness, have removed their completely healthy breasts, pose, showing gross scars and assuring that now they have finally turned into young men. A man convicted of rape only needs to state that he "identifies as a woman" to be put in a women's prison - where inmates complain in vain about his abuse. (And no, this is not a duck - these are the laws , for example, in modern Britain). Theologians are seriously discussing God's "gender neutrality" and inventing rites for "transgender transition". In this world, a holiday on which it is customary to emphasize that there is a fundamental difference between men and women (women - by virtue of belonging to their gender - have unique virtues that men do not have, femininity is something worthy of recognition and glorification, it is appropriate for women give flowers and admire their beauty), looks like a stronghold of the counter-revolution. There is a certain challenge in declaring openly that ladies are beautiful, but men in stockings are neither ladies nor beautiful. As well as to glorify mothers, and not to shame them for contributing to overpopulation and spoiling the climate. A bouquet of flowers given to a wife or mother goes from a mere act of attention to a stubborn proclamation of common sense in a world in which a large part has gone mad. Comrade Clara Zetkin hardly wanted this, but history sometimes has an unexpected sense of humor. March 8, 2023 Sergey Khudiev |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Somehow, our leftists have distorted the communist distortion of Mother’s Day into something so bizarre that even the former totalitarians are ticked. Seems as outrageous as a violation of bidet etiquette. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-09 19:48 |
| #1 Isn't March 8th the day to celebrate the wonderful .308 caliber cartridge? |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-03-09 17:14 |