International Women’s Day over, sports back to the forefront

Women Season came to an end yesterday with the world-wide celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD). Marked by hundreds of articles, academic analysis and restrained casual sex, the week leading to Women’s Day proved successful in raising awareness and making male journalists, activists and academics feel pleased with themselves. Male experts agree that with the end of the season, “men all around the world can go back nonchalantly to issues like the football leagues, indoctrination, man-of-the-year candidates and Charlie Sheen without feeling guilty,” commented women rights scholar Boris Fedorov Sánchez. “One of the positive aspects of having a patriarchal calendar is we can all do this nice debating in a specific date, and once it’s over we don’t have to worry about it until next year. I would go as far as agreeing with what I overheard today at the university urinals: this date has become the smart man’s Valentine’s day,” he added, while requesting not to be quoted. The recent successes of IWD has half the planet wondering if this one-day truce on exploitation, inequality and systemic abuse could become a year-long permanent affair. “I mean, do we really want to have Christmas every day? Let’s not be unrealistic. Having it in just one day is what makes it special, isn’t it?” concluded Sánchez, again requesting not to be quoted.