Friday, March 7, 2008

International Women's Day

Tomorrow is International Women's Day. Today, we celebrated at work by parading through the streets of Quito with banners that said, ''Mujeres, tu puedes,'' (women: you can) and other feminist slogans. Guess what my boss said on Monday, immediately after she announced that we were going to have a parade. ''So, we are going to need five strong men to carry a giant female doll along the parade route.'' Ironic?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Not necessarily ironic. Some feminists might say that that is what men are good for -- and cooking - and cleaning - and looking cute.