Yesterday marked the day that used to be known in China as International Working Women's Day but is now (tellingly) celebrated as "Girls' Day," when women nationwide receive what they truly want: not equal pay or an end to sexual harassment but fabulous shopping deals.
Chinese media, currently subsumed with Two Sessions Mania, came up with a fitting tribute: a gallery of female journalists, delegates and other women kneeling, tidying up, taking selfies and primping themselves in front of restroom mirrors.
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Just in case that wasn't condescending enough, though, the women were also referred to in the description as "beautiful scenery" for the annual meeting of the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
"March 8, Women's Day. At the Two Sessions currently underway in Beijing, many of the female delegates became beautiful scenery for the Two Sessions"
In 2012, state media made international headlines by calling women at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party "beautiful scenery" so you would think that they might have learned their lesson by now.
Alas, old habits die hard. Elsewhere online, the different doodles chosen by Google and Baidu spoke volumes about their different conception of what International Women's Day is supposed to represent:
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[Images via Sina]
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