It is very difficult to start this text as what I am about to write feels incoherent and not entirely my personal experience.
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8th of March, International Women’s Day, I wonder, what women like Theresa Malkiel, Luise Zietz, Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker, Sylvia Pankhurst, Alexandra Kollontai and Dolores Ibárruri would say about women today?.
 
I don’t like to call myself a feminist, I just think all extremes and labels are somehow wrong and let’s say too extreme! Hehehe!
 
The incoherence of my text is that I think women should have it all!
Be independent, successful and kick asses! But I would like to see more gentlemen that open the door for women, that pay the bill, not because a woman needs a man to support her financially, but just because HE invited her out!!, I want to see more men who cook for their women, hahaha I know, maybe too much to ask, but hey! I hate cooking and I want it all, so why not wish it for all my fellow women?. I want to see more men picking up women from home for a date and walk them back safe, I am lucky enough to enjoy many of these things but I see what the world around me is heading to.
 
None of these little details have anything to do with the ideals that the women I mention before fought for.
 
I think we have taken things way too far! (my feminist friends are going to kill me!) I support equal rights, strong independent women, #metoo campaigns and banning sexism… BUT we have definitely taken it too far! On this quest we are trying to become men, which obviously we are not, men don’t dare to be gallant, polite and provider (which by the way is their nature), men are intimidated by us (in the wrong way) and a Gentleman is nowadays a very rare specimen.

I wish I could see more women using their feminine power to get what they want without the need of comparing it with what men have, maybe we don’t want the same things!
We are just blindly competing instead of coexisting, co-working and helping each other grow with our own feminine and masculine assets.
 
At the end I think we are about to lose the battle, we now have the right to vote, to equal salary and to study, but we are giving away the right to be treated with gentlemen courtesy.

​-Jessica Meza ​

It is the moto for this year's Women's Day and I have to wonder a couple of things...

This day is to commemorate the fight for our rights, equality and justice, however I think this efforts are targeted only against the opposite sex.

Some of my 2018 resolutions was to be less judgemental and support other women to grow, I thought about how much harm I can cause others by judging them.

Today I realise that the fight for our rights, equality and justice starts at home, and that woman to woman we have the moral obligation to support each other to achieve our goals, we have to stop criticising the one that came out of the house without make up, the one that is in a bad mood today, the one that forgot her lines in front of the camera or the one that doesn't look good on a picture.

If we give it a deep thought, we will learn that all of us have an untold story, that if we practice a little bit of empathy we already know why a woman is struggling today, why she is angry, forgetful and that most of us take 100 pictures to look good in one! From now on let's think that the same thing that is happening to her, might happen to us tomorrow...

TIME IS NOW!...To lift each other up!

Today I make a toast for all those ugly pictures, for all the things we forget, for all the angry days, today I make a toast for our perfect imperfections!

Congratulations WOMAN!!