Mother's day is absurd, unless all women get their freedom economically.
This freedom is curtailed in a patriarchal society which is misogyny, by all means. Religion, caste, colour, nationality, gender bias and all forms of byproducts of today's economic, social, political order are meant to oppress women, their liberty, equality and even safety.
Mother's day or any such glorification of women is nothing but a form to mask their real miseries, inequality that the present society has bestowed upon them, oppression, which often culminates into rape, the ultimate humiliation and physical punishment by men, who came into existence due women!
It is told with "pride" that prostitution is the oldest profession and many advanced and "modern" nations have given it a legal cover, where Sex-Workers can earn their wages "respectfully", without much hindrance. This in any case has failed to give Sex-Workers any respect, safety.
Yes, legalising prostitution has given a boost to the falling GDP, as huge taxes are collected by the capitalist governments! They are celebrating Mother's Day!! If prostitution is legal, then rape is theft or loot of women's body, which is a factory of "sexual pleasure".
Women's oppression started from the day, on this earth, when the division of work started in our society, firstly based on gender basis. This happened when humanity started settling in a particular area, where it could find safety, source of water and better management of basic subsistence, like food and could store them for future. Women took care of households, as physically they got confined to the "base area", during pregnancy and to take care of babies. This division was natural but in course of time, as productivity increased, few could eat without working, on other's work. With rise of Private Property, men looked for heritance for their wealth and demanded monogamy.
Here ended polygamy and all freedom, equality of women. The concept of father started. Men remained polygamy, continued their "right" to copulate with many women, despite all laws, in various forms, till today. Prostitution, rape, women's oppression, domestic violence, pornography, fashion world, beauty contest, etc are various forms to not only keep men's hegemony over women but even turned women into commodity to extract huge profit, the base of capitalism.
Do you foresee women's freedom, equality and safety in capitalism, which is meant to extract profit by all means, and which not only continues women's subjugation to men and production for profit but increases it?
Only Socialism to emancipate women, along with the working class and other exploited sections of the society, as all of them are suffering due capital's hegemony and thus have common enemy, namely, capital!
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