Translation: 25 Things Men Can Do for Women on Women’s Day

On March 8, the favored feminist and LGBTQ+ blogger @piaoquanjun (@票圈君) wrote on Weibo: “I’ve pulled collectively some current incidents and issues which have lengthy been taking place to write down this piece on ’25 Issues Males Can Do For Ladies on Ladies’s Day.’” The listing’s modesty belies its radical nature. Public expressions of feminism usually result in censure and may even result in arrest. Certainly, @piaoquanjun is at the least the third account its creator has registered—the earlier ones have all been shuttered throughout WeChat and Weibo. Under, China Digital Instances translated @piaoquanjun’s listing and offered hyperlinks to the “happenings” that so concern him and different feminists throughout China:

1. Don’t use “Woman’s Fest,” “Goddess Fest,” or different names apart from “Ladies’s Day.”  Perceive that the phrase “lady” is just not a derogatory time period, so it doesn’t have to be prettified to “goddess” or “queen.”
2. On the subject of incidents akin to Fengxian’s “chained lady,” communicate out, repost, remark, and observe as a lot as attainable … any motion is nice motion.
3. Perceive that battle is a grave and merciless factor. Don’t mock ladies caught up in warfare.
4. If any of your feminine coworkers take a half-day off at the moment, attempt your greatest to not trouble them. Respect the vacation they’re legally entitled to.
5. If you happen to’re a job seeker drafting a resume, don’t embrace your gender or your {photograph}. Likewise, if you’re an interviewer inspecting resumes, please ignore gender and images.
6. Don’t ask stupid questions like, “Why is there a Ladies’s Day, however not a Males’s Day?” Notice that for folks in males’s our bodies, on daily basis is a vacation.
7. Refuse to make use of any curse phrases which can be derogatory to ladies, even when the goal is just not feminine. For instance, “Nancy boy,” or “effeminate.”
8. In the identical vein, keep away from utilizing insults that seek advice from feminine kinfolk or ladies’s reproductive organs.
9. When boarding an elevator with a lady or ladies, press the button in your personal flooring first.
10. When driving an escalator, don’t increase your head and stare on the folks above you—particularly in the summertime.
11. When utilizing a unisex lavatory, please wipe off the bathroom seat after urinating, or higher but, attempt sitting whilst you pee.
12. Don’t say “ladies’s napkins” once you imply “sanitary napkins.” Don’t say “Aunt Flo” once you imply “menstrual interval.”
13. Don’t use “Feminazi” instead of “feminism.”
14. Don’t inform vulgar sexual jokes in public: it’s not humorous and it’s not well mannered.
15. When a bunch is made up of each women and men, don’t use the character 他 [in 他们, masculine “they”]. Study to make use of [the gender-neutral] “TA.”
16. When speaking with ladies, do extra listening and considering, and fewer spouting off.
17. When on the subway or bus, don’t unfold your legs too broad or take up an excessive amount of of different folks’s area.
18. When a female relative is busy within the kitchen, go in and assist—take in your fair proportion of the tasks.
19. When a lady says “No” she means “No.” It’s not “She needs to say sure however she’s telling you no,” or that she’s “embarrassed” or “shy.” It doesn’t matter what the state of affairs, keep in mind: “No means No.”
20. If you meet a toddler who makes use of their mom’s surname, don’t ask why, simply say, “That’s a really good identify.”
21. When a lady posts a selfie to her WeChat Moments, don’t criticize her look. Your feedback aren’t vital, anyway.
22. When expressing your love for a lady, as a substitute of telling her, “I wish to handle you,” say, “I wish to allow you to turn into a greater particular person.”
23. When you’ve gotten time, learn Li Yinhe or Simone de Beauvoir.
24. However simply since you’ve learn a guide or shared an article on WeChat doesn’t imply you must go considering you’ve made some nice contribution to womankind. Keep introspective and respectful, and all the time be conscious of the day by day challenges and troubles that girls face. We’ve got a lot work left to do.
25. Yearly on this date, solemnly and sincerely inform the ladies in your life, “I want you a cheerful Ladies’s Day.” [Chinese]