This event will be a march for women of all ethnicities, and backgrounds to come together to march for gender equality for all women. A predicted date could be July 20th, 2020. June is a very sunny month, and also the month that women won the right to vote; I believe this event would work well in this month. It would have a start time that would work with the state of Texas, because I live in Texas and it is a big state and I know several cities will want to participate, so it can be a statewide march. Women from all over the state can march together and unite against the overwhelmingly privileged man’s based environment we currently live in. There will be local women in power speaking at the marches throughout the state.
The target audience for this event would be for women who feel like they have not been treated as equally as their peers, or just women, men or others that support the cause of equality. This event is to provide recognition to the women who do not receive the equal rights that they deserve.
Setting up and implementing a plan requires strong arguments about the benefits of working towards gender equality in workplaces, and anywhere else women could be oppressed. In chapter 1.3 about oppression Frye talks about being caged, “one can study the elements of an oppressive structure with great care and some good will without seeing the structure as a whole, and hence without seeing or being able to understand that one is looking at a cage and that there are people there who are caged, whose motion and mobility are restricted, whose lives are shaped and reduced.”(Frye, M) To me the people that are caged are women and transgender people, we are looked at as lower powered people then men. They feel as though we can’t think like them or we are not good enough to be on the same level as them. So we have to stand up for ourselves, because there probably is no one else who will. In Chapter 1.4 Lorde talks about race, age, and sex, “Certainely there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex.
But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and to examine the distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human behavior and expectation. Racism, the belief in the inherent superiority of one race all others and thereby the right to dominance. Sexism, the belief in the inherent superiority of one sex over the other and thereby the right to dominance. Ageism. Heterosexism. Elitism. Classism.”(Lorde, A) Most people choose not to recognize the differences for one because that’s how they were brought up, or because they don’t want backlash for bringing awareness to the real situations going on in the world, but enough of that, we have to stop being scared to speak up or speak out against Sexism, Racism etc. Especially us women, that’s what this march is about and I’m sure there have been several like it, but there are never too many! The last thing I am going to talk about is a TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie called “We Should All Be Feminists” She says a few things that I remember from when we were told to watch this video for a discussion. Like when she talks about being in primary school, getting the highest grade on the test meant you could be class monitor. Adichie in fact did get the highest grade on the test but was told she could not be class monitor because it had to be a boy and she thought it was “obvious” that she meant the boy with the highest grade. Or when she talks about going out with a male friend and tipping the man who helped them find a parking spot with her own money, and after he took the money he looks over at the man she was with and tells him thank you, not her who he saw pull the money out of her purse but the man. (Adichie, C) So this is not just a thing happening in the United States, but everywhere, people always assume that the male has the power when there could be the possibility that the woman is the power. This march is to help people realize that yes, women have power and we know how to use it. We do not just hide behind men and let them do all the work, we are independent!
