I don't know if Liza would have celebrated March 8 - if she would have talked about women's rights on that day, or if she would have received flowers as a gift, or if she would have done both.

Maybe she would wear a nice dress and go to a restaurant with her boyfriend.

Maybe volunteer all day for other women.

Perhaps this day for her would be no different from the previous and the next.

But Lisa is no more.

Formally, what the criminal did to her is unlikely to be considered murder - she did not die on the spot, but remained on the apparatus for several more days.

But we are not in the courtroom, and I am not engaged in the official qualification of the case here.

And for me, everything is clear: Liza was raped and killed by a man who considered that his wishes were more important than her right to inviolability and right to life.

Unfortunately, there are many women with the same fate as Lisa.

And many similar murders do not cause the same loud media reaction, no marches are held in memory of these women.

Different circumstances came together here, that's how it happens.

Hopefully, thanks to the publicity, even more people now understand how absurd all the talk about countries where feminism has supposedly won, and about the fact that the pendulum has now swung the other way - women are given so much attention, we are so protected, that men are oppressed.

And I see such statements regularly.

It seems that a lot of people actually think so.

How exactly they come to such a conclusion is a big mystery to me, but what wonders our thinking is not capable of in order to build a convenient and understandable picture of the world!

But I don't know any country where girls and women would not have to be "taught how to avoid rape".

And not a single country where this would be "taught" en masse to boys.

There are many cultural and ideological differences between women in Belarus, India, and the USA, but we all have one thing in common: what do you do or have you done to avoid being raped?

we respond quickly and without hesitation.

And you ask the same question to men.

Builders, couriers, drivers, sales managers, singers, professors and doctors.

Ask how often they are afraid of being raped and how often they have been told that nipples showing through their T-shirts are tempting to others.

I don't know what else needs to happen to make it clear to everyone that we will colonize Mars faster than feminism will win on Earth and women will stop being accused of being raped and killed by men.

You see, while traditionalists complain that women have turned the world upside down with their power, in reality women are raped and killed simply because we are women.

This is the victory of feminism.

But all the same, there will be people who will say that we have already achieved everything.

And it is not necessary, they will say, to remind about Lisa.

This, they will say, is not about feminism at all.

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  • Nasta Zakharevich

    Freelance journalist, radical feminist

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