Celebrating International Women’s Day Every Day

How we, as a collective Optimus Prime, can win the battle against Musk’s et al. Decepticons

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I’m lobbying for the next four years that every day should be International Women’s Day. On March 8th — the official call-to-action day to celebrate, honor, encourage, empower, inspire, and elevate all women — I thought about the hard-won victories we have fought for and achieved. My 19-year-old daughter and young women her age are the recipients of those struggles. As a result, my daughter is confident, smart, independent, and knows what she wants out of life. I want her and all young women to continue on that path — choosing the trajectory of their future and agency over their lives.

And yet . . .

I see those hard-won victories slipping away as each day passes.

A glaring example of this happened on the very day that was meant to praise half the world’s population.

I wouldn’t have paid any notice to a New York Times article about Joe Rogan’s recent podcast episode not caught my eye. While the Times article covered a range of topics discussed during Rogan’s three-hour interview with Elon Musk, I only had to listen to the first ten minutes of his conversation to make my blood boil.