It's International Women's Day and here in South Africa, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every 8 hours.
It's International Women's Day, and female scientists are still earning considerably less than their male peers.
It's International Women's Day, and women are being killed as "Witches" in higher numbers than ever before. Never mind the "Burning Times". We have a real, present holocaust on our hands here.
The reasons? Doubtless they are many, or could be presented as many by people far more qualified than I in social science matters. But, for my own curiosity, I have a one-word catchall answer to the why of it: the Patriarchy. You're stewing in it, and have been for thousands of years, so that you often don't see it for what it is.
The patriarchy: that ignoble structure which has its roots deep in the big monotheistic religions of today, as well as in agriculture, civilization and city-building, and of course the Wetiko disease.
The patriarchy: whose reign degrades and hurts men as well as simply killing women.
It's not going away any time soon. Not so long as most of us are as unaware of it as a fish is of water.
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