COMMENT | This Int'l Women's Day, I'm thinking about how tired we are

COMMENT | Readers, I’ve got to level with you: I struggled to write this piece. Not because writing can be soul-crushing work (though it’s not that), but because I’m a sceptic when it comes to the concept of “International Women’s Day”. How do you adequately answer a question with such a broad range of answers: what does it mean to be a young woman in 2021? I tried to find something to say that wasn’t so bleak or full of black rage, while also trying to convey that yes, feminists do have a sense of humour! Would earnest curiosity punctuated by righteous suspicion work? “Men do care about the w…

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