Then, and only then, categorise that person as a ‘woman’ if a practical purpose for doing so exists, such as, in the 2020s, realising the size of a smartphone that’s got to fit in a female hand, the ratio of stairs to ramps and elevators at new train stations, the safety standards of a car’s cabin features, and things like that. Sayers is clearly a feminist, and although preferring to classify herself as nothing more than a person with an eye for the obvious, she is able to define feminism in one sentence:įeminism means simply recognising an individual woman’s particular personality traits, talents, skills and weaknesses first, second, third and fourth – the same respect you’d accord to an individual man. Those notions are the biases International Women’s Day 2022 intends to address. Sayers (1893-1957) in a collection of essays titled ‘ Are Women Human? Astute and witty essays on the role of women in society’.Īt only 69 pages long, the two essays making up this book are a sizzling rebuke to the ridiculous notions of what ‘womanhood’ should be – notions that, it is dismaying to say, still exist everywhere across the world today among non-critical thinkers of both sexes and all cultures. Well, such men, what women want is the same thing that men want: the right to choose their own path and to be justly recognised for it. ‘“What, men have asked distractedly from the beginning of time, “what on earth do women want?”’
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