Article Leave me alone this Women’s Day
Article Leave me alone this Women’s Day
Quote:This Women’s Day and on other days, I want to reclaim my head space and outgrow the demands to manage and maintain, self and others.
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/leave-me-alone-this-womens-day-9863601/
Quote:This Women’s Day and on other days, I want to reclaim my head space and outgrow the demands to manage and maintain, self and others.
I think, as an Eastern European, the recent oversaturated commodification/Americanization/yassification of Woman's Day will never stop pissing me off. Before like some recent years, it seemed relatively unknown amongst Americans and it was just a day my family, friends, and I would give other Eastern European women in our lives flowers and chocolates and gifts and kind words. Of course these are mere platitudes in the face of having to be women in a misogynistic society, but still, it was a nice little "holiday." Now it's this stupid commercialized entity thanks to American corporations that people now write articles about being sick about.
Quote:The other day, when someone asked me about the most valuable real estate, I said it is the space between one’s ears. Head space is the most precious space. It is where one lives. And that is exactly what a woman does not have to herself. The noise in the head is constant, shrill and annoying. It is programmed to plan ahead, for the next meal, the next meeting, the next crisis that is just around the corner. Many decades ago, in her path-breaking work, Virginia Woolf argued the case for a room of one’s own. I want to argue for a headspace of one’s own, transcending the physical four walls.
Quote:The other day, when someone asked me about the most valuable real estate, I said it is the space between one’s ears. Head space is the most precious space. It is where one lives. And that is exactly what a woman does not have to herself. The noise in the head is constant, shrill and annoying. It is programmed to plan ahead, for the next meal, the next meeting, the next crisis that is just around the corner. Many decades ago, in her path-breaking work, Virginia Woolf argued the case for a room of one’s own. I want to argue for a headspace of one’s own, transcending the physical four walls.
