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So, just as a point of order:

International Women’s Day is little known in the US but widely celebrated around the world; the International Women’s Day web site lists just 53 events in the US, out of more than 400 worldwide.

You do realize that the United States makes up less than one percent of the world's population, right? So if less than one percent of the population is putting on about one eighth of the world's International Women's Day events, that would suggest that the United States actually has a much higher awareness of the occasion than most of the rest of the world. On average, like.

Far as that goes, I daresay people in Seattle spend a lot more time thinking about what we can or should do to stop rape as a form of political terror in the Africa than, say, the residents of medium-sized college towns in most of Europe.

Not to suggest that International Women's Day and your statistics and such aren't valid and important, but this Benighted America spin is, if I may be so bold, misinformed.

¡Feliz día Internacional de la Mujer!

If it were not for you ECB, I am quite sure your paper would not mention it either, but Im sure yall gonna make big biz with St Paddy's Day ads.

"And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman"

#1, while your general point is correct, your math is wrong. The US is more like 4-5% of the world's population. We've got 300 million, and the world's got some 7 billion.

53 out of more than 400 is about 1 in 8, or 12.5%, so the US has roughly three times as many events per capita as the world as a whole.

If you even bothered to go to the Washington State N.O.W. website, you'd see there are events. There is a concert benefit from the local Seattle chapter at the UW. There are events at the UW as well. And other groups like Radical Women have events too.

But that might take some work. Like, oh, I don't know, using Google?

oh, and we got all our mitochondrial DNA from our moms too.

#1, while your general point is correct, your math is wrong. The US is more like 4-5% of the world's population. We've got 300 million, and the world's got some 7 billion.

D'oh! Heh.

Interesting to see that the comments so far are unanimous in their reaction--slight the post and the poster, with more or less disguised hostility.

I haven't seen treatment like this in Slog comments on a post with a race or homosexuality theme. Concern with equality and fairness doesn't extend to women, or what?

it doesn't extend to stupidity.

Erica stared with no facts - sorry, Seattle has produced a lot of Women's day events for years. Of course , some of the groups like Radical Women, the Stranger dislikes and has put down.

So, of course, they don't count, even if their event's are excellent to the max.

Maybe too political for Erica, but well organized, and widely publicized.

Seems there is always an agenda at the Stranger, always. Really fucked.

jameyb@8:

Where's the stupidity?

This is a longtime phenomenon among the left and progressive: women must be on the front lines working for fair treatment of everyone, but they must not be too demanding in their own interests or too vocal about the wretched status of women in benighted parts of the world. After all, don't women have their equal rights amendment in Washington? And doesn't the world have worse problems than the poverty of and violence against women? Won't we get around to fixing women's problems when everything else is straightened out?

Keep going, ECB. Some of us cheering you on.

I think it's nifty that the little ladies are having some of shindig. What is it? A big bake sale or something?

FYI, dear ever-pissed-off, ever-full-of-free-time commenters, I was basing my statement that there were no events in Seattle on the IWD web site, which lists only one event in Seattle (on March 2) and one in Port Angeles. Feel free to list any Radical Women or other events you want in this thread. But please, calm down with the personal insults. You sound like children.

Ann Coulter. Radical.
I think she has a great sense of humour. She is human after all. We humans are dumb but we sure are funny.
She doesn't bother me, I don't always agree with her, but you guys neither to Dan Savage, to ECB or Charles Mudede. So we are all in the mix. Don't fool yourselves. I can watch her and anything she says is like whatever. Big Fucking Deal. She's a lot better to listen to than that talk show host Michael Medved or Michael Savage.
Hell she sounds like my mom sometimes. And don't lie you know you got family like her. And you still love them.

I don't think I was slighting the original post. Just correcting some aspects.

And Ann Coulter is a man, baby!

@5,

Thank you for pointing that out, but I'd like to add that many (probably most) men conveniently ignore/forget that fact.

and coincidentally, tonight is LADIES NIGHT.

Radical Women celebrates International Women's Day by throwing an event every year. It would be great if the Stranger covered this year's event which will feature Lynne Stewart, defense attorney from NYC who is on a West Coast Tour to talk about her sentence appeal of "abetting" terrorism.

She will speak at Seattle University on:

Saturday, March 10, 7:00 pm

Event Title:
Lynne Stewart: “My fight for justice in Patriot Act America”

Acclaimed for defending poor people, radicals of color, and controversial figures, Stewart was sentenced to 28 months in prison on charges of abetting terrorism in a trial described as “a triumph of fear over reason” by Mumia Abu-Jamal. Stewart will discuss her appeal and the inspiration she draws from the legacy of female resistance to repression.

Co-sponsors: Radical Women, Seattle University Departments and Programs: Anthropology, Sociology & Social Work, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Pre-Law, Women’s Studies; the Black Panther Party Reunion Committee, National Lawyers Guild - Seattle and SU Law School Chapter.

This free event is at Seattle University. Enter campus on East Marion at 12th Ave. Continue straight past the visitor parking lot. The auditorium is in the Pigott Building, the first building on the right. For more information call 206-722-6057 or email RWseattle@mindspring.com.

@12 - as I said, just adding info. It's a worldwide org, it won't list all the local events, especially in some backwater town like Seattle ... but thanks for posting it in the FIRST place, Erica!

@17 - thanks for the info.

Any other events, anyone?

I had a tupperware party, but nobody came.

Darn, I could have used some tupperware.

wow to Radical Women - sounds like an excellent event, will attend with several friends

as I understand the speaker Ms. lynne Stewart was trying to give a real defense to the accused - how not patriotic act, aiding terrorists by attempting to use justice in fair trials, the accused represented by good attorneys

hot speaker

thanks for posting, and tupperware is horrid, go corelle

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