A Million Woman March has been called for London next International Women’s Day. I’m interested, and impressed by the approach taken by what seems to be a linked (at least by name) American example from 2004.
But there are aspects of the rhetoric and approach in Britain that worry me. If it’s going to focus on issues like honour killings, forced marriage, domestic violence and rape (particularly the need to address community attitudes that lead juries to often acquit), and the need to defend reproductive freedoms, then great.
But equating a job-seeker being offered a lap dancing job (it doesn’t seem she was being forced to take the job) with matters of that seriousness, and promoting it as a day of prayer – prayer! when you look at the enormous violence against women’s bodies and dignity embodied in religion (just take today’s hideous example from the Catholic church) – makes me sway away.
Anyone know anything more about the people behind it?
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