On the 24th of october in 1975, approximately 90% of Icelandic women struck for equality, not attending jobs or doing any domestic work. Iceland passed an equal pay law the following year, but the strike has been repeated on its anniversary several times since, such as in the years 2005, 2010, and 2016.
The strike was planned by "The Women's Congress", which had met on June 20th and 21st earlier that year. Among the reasons given for going on strike were pay inequality, lack of women in union leadership, and a general lack of recognition for the value and skill of domestic labor.
During the work stoppage, also known as "Women's Day Off", 25,000 people gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital city, for a rally. There, women listened to speakers, sang, and talked to each other about what could be done to achieve gender equality in Iceland.
Women from many different backgrounds spoke, including a housewife, two members of parliament, and a worker. The last speech of the day was by Aðalheiður Bjarnfreðsdóttir, who "represented Sókn, the trade union for the lowest paid women in Iceland", according to The Guardian.
In 1976, the Icelandic government passed an equal pay law, and the country elected its first female President, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, five years later in 1980.
The 1975 Women's Strike also helped inspire the 2016 "Black Monday" anti-abortion ban protests in Poland, as well as the "International Women's Strike", single day work stoppages on March 8th, 2017 and 2018.
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wondering if this is a result of me just being a hater but so far I genuinely am having much less fun with Naruto than I did with Bleach, reading both thus far within the month.
Part of it may be because Naruto is so fucking ambient in the manga/anime space that I practically know the tracks of the plot but it feels like Bleach wasn't afraid to get experimental and oddball in a way that genuinely intrigued me even years after its initial release whereas Naruto either a) has aged like Seinfeld due to it being assimilated as a building block for the industry or b) was always trite, and I'm leaning towards b because I also read Dragon Ball a couple months back, which is the solar body that battle shōnen fucking revolves around, and I still liked it! It still felt unique to me, even if it's been chopped up and sold for parts!
With Naruto, thus far, I cannot summon that same sentiment. It's just so much of what makes me fucking groan and zone out packed into a manga. I came in with a bit of a critical lens but I was not expecting it to be even more bluh for me than I gleaned from the summary. It's not trash, but it's really, really trite. I really want to give this a shot! I'm waiting for it to prove me wrong! I want to be proven wrong here! It's just not giving me a reason to. It's so frustrating. I feel like I'm missing something here and it makes me feel like I'm just not getting it at all, which really annoys me. I want to see the appeal. I'm waiting for it to show it to me.
Shonen is bad i think if u seen or read one youve seen them all
Maybe this shit is just ambient with my negative feelings regarding MHA. There's a lot of overlap in my mind that might paint this more negatively for me. That's the only explanation I can summon that isn't "I feel this is genuinely a collection of some of the worst tropes in shōnen that fundamentally repels me and I cannot for the life of me find appeal in it"
I'm going to trudge through it because I'm very stubborn but it's just not hooking me yet. I don't get it.