And You Still Don't Care?!

March 8 is the International Women Day and I have seen some reactions towards this occasion from people who are supposed to be educated that are simply scandalous! a great part of this is due to people's ignorance of the brutalities, discrimination and abuse women go through worldwide and they don't know how women's cause is no longer something that concerns women alone, no actually it's now the problem of humanity, this if people can admit that they really do feel and believe that women are part of humanity as well.

One of the reactions that I've seen made by people, unfortunately  sometimes by women themselves is this ‎"So what! It's Women International Day! Why should I care?..." well, before you say more I'd like to quote some lines from Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDUNN's book Half the Sky (which obviously is the book that inspired the name of this blog) that may change your mind. but before that let me admit that even I, despite my being a book worm and having much knowledge about different issues, I still wasn't really aware of the current condition of women in the world right now in the 21st century until I read this remarkable book that was definitely so eye-opening and It made me a keen supporter of this cause and it made me see that this is something that no longer concerns women alone but it concerns the whole humanity. I highly recommend that you read that book because once you do, your whole viewpoint about this issue is going to change. Here are some quotes from the book:

"The global statistics on the abuse of girls are numbing. It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the battles of the twentieth century. More girls are killed in this routine “gendercide” in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century"

"Every year, at least another 2 million girls worldwide disappear because of gender discrimination."

"Far more women and girls are shipped into brothels each year in the early twenty first century than African slaves were shipped into slave plantations each year in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries"

"About one third of all women worldwide face beatings in the home. Women aged fifteen through forty-four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined."

"The United Nations Population Fund has estimated that there are 5,000 honor killings a year, almost all in the Muslim world (Pakistan's government uncovered 1,261 honor killings in 2003 alone)"

Now, after you read all this, can you really say that you don't care, with my due respect but if you are human, you will.