Proven: why you can't do it right as a woman

No professor was involved in this research, no piles of statistics or a difficult formula. I just looked around and then I already knew. Honestly: as a woman, you never do it completely right. We think that of each other, men think that of us, we think that of ourselves, and those numbers prove it again. Just saying, on International Women's Day.

But today I was flipping through the articles that such a day brings and no matter how hard I search, this remains my conclusion. On a list of the ten richest women on earth and that we are now finally just as highly educated as, which again says that we need to be richer and smarter. Shattering and breaking the glass ceiling, women at the top, that work. Or we criticize mothers who stay at home or the woman who works more than 40 hours and has a nanny at home. We work too much, then too little. Right?

By the way, if you find something about a woman once and say it, you are immediately put on the cross. Publicly. You get filleted, cut, and shaved, because how dare you, we women must support each other. What I don't really see in such a filleting session, but that must be my fault.

Honestly: I think that such an International Women's Day is really very important, but I thought it was to support each other. Actually, I only read about what we have not yet achieved, or how you could do a little better. The woman is forever a part-timer. So what? The woman is too much of a mother. Can't be. The woman is too little of a boss. Why? Missed opportunity on a day like this, if you ask me.

I read on LINDAnieuws a piece about how the women behind the pamphlet ‘DAMN, HONEY’ celebrate being a woman. Masturbate, unfollow women that make you unhappy, throw away clothes that make you hate yourself, pay attention to how you talk about yourself and others, and deny yourself nothing. And that seems much kinder and nicer to me. It's small, manageable, and doesn't say what we are doing wrong. Because I think we especially need to get rid of the idea that it's never good enough.