International Women's Day

I read about a bloggers Unite thing for International Women's Day. Hence the wandering thought of why isn't there an International Men's Day? I will digress on that later.

From Bloggers Unite: “Started as a political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries (primarily Russia and the countries of former Soviet bloc). In some celebrations, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love to the women around them in a way somewhat similar to Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day mixed together. In others, however, the political and human rights theme as designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner. The IWD is also celebrated as the first spring holiday, as in the listed countries the first day of March is considered the first day of the spring season.”

Here in Liberia - they are having the Women's Colloquium. Why they had to use such an odd word as Colloquium I don't know - but probably an internet registration thing - hence the site womenscolloquium.org. Yes a reaqal site you can go to to see what the women's colloquium is all about. All I know is that it means more work for us here and some of the higher-ups have been all over-stressed about it.

Why not have the colloquium here? The President is a woman. Not a lot of countries have that.

The good news - it will be over soon and things will go back to "normal" for here.

So why not an International Men’s Day? I doubt we will see that one come around. After all, women are special and men, well we are just men. :)