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It's time for our columnist of today, editor in chief of Opzij magazine, Margriet van der Linden
Around 8 March, International Women's Day, a journalist asked Gloria Steinem, the founder of the American Opzij, if there is still any use for feminism, emancipation.
I was in New York at that moment for the 57th United Nations conference for women
Theme and goal: banish worldwide violence against women and grils
For 2 weeks it was discussed and scuffled. Only on the evening of the closing day the countries could come to an agreement on a joint statement
The Vatican, in an occasional friendship with fundamentalist Islamic countries had almost successfully blocked agreements
about banishing violence against women and girls
In the meantime an extraordinary project had been running for almost a year, started by the British Laura Bates
She called women to share their daily experience with sexism. It could vary from for example the worst form, ***
In Congo every 43 seconds a woman is ***. Not only with a ***, often with a stick or broken bottle
to forms of sexism one could call generally accepted sexism
I was walking to school with friends. We were 14, 15 when 4 men grabbed us and touched us 'down there'
We were in shock. We never spoke about it again
I was standing in the bus when I suddenly felt something warm pressing against me. I looked and saw
a man standing behind me and *** on my bag. The police said this happened often
A friend who is a designer was asked by a client if he could photoshop a hard *** in a photo
Our sheriff thinks that women in short skirts ask to be ***
A few weeks ago I went swimming. I walked to the pool when
a man said 'What ***!'
I saw a man in London, it was the middle of the day. He sat down in a bus shelter and took his pants down
I am the only woman in a group of men at the top of a company. When I wanted to go sit down for a meeting
one of them had put an open hand on my chair. Everyone laughed
A man was *** in front of my window. Police arrived and asked 'What were you wearing?' 'What were you doing?'
The director of a company said to a friend, it's a fact that after a pregnancy women have less braincells
you can pay them less
I was 15 and an uncle of mine discussed with another uncle my bodyshapes. They acted as if I wasn't in the room
'*** ***!' I was told when I didnt let a man into my lane
Laura Bates has received 25000 reactions on her site EverydaySexism.com. Everyday experiences of western women
The experience of the 5 year old Indian girl that was *** last week, those of girls in Pakistan, Afghanistan, South America
Syria and Egypt, ***, beaten, tortured, maligned, aren't even included
Almost 1 out of 3 women in the west only, has experienced *** or *** assault. Me too.
The biggest problem is indifference. Is feminism, the fight for women's rights still needed?
This narrative took 3 minutes and a few seconds. During this time 4 women have been *** in Congo.