Today marks International Women’s Day. As we celebrate ambition, empowerment, abilities, it is a day that serves as a reminder that gender parity needs to happen.
Christine Mungai explains below:
For #InternationalWomensDay, something counter-intuitive: resisting the notion women have a unique spiritual beauty or glory. Hear me out
— Christine Mungai (@chris_mungai) March 8, 2017
There's this idea women possess some kind of pure, spiritual essence that makes them unsuited for the rough world of business & politics
— Christine Mungai (@chris_mungai) March 8, 2017
It's partly founded on ideas that there is s'thing essentially mysterious & earthy about women, and we (society) have a duty to preserve it
— Christine Mungai (@chris_mungai) March 8, 2017
Take for example, this (written from a Christian perspective, but such notions are widely held): https://t.co/hNulHcTgNH
— Christine Mungai (@chris_mungai) March 8, 2017
The idea that some categories of humans are fundamentally (at their core and essence) more virtuous that others is not new.
— Christine Mungai (@chris_mungai) March 8, 2017
(I owe this thread to Bertrand Russell's searing essay 'The Superior Virtue Of The Oppressed', and will be quoting it)
— Christine Mungai (@chris_mungai) March 8, 2017
Indeed.
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