Wearing Skirts For Gender Equality

It has not all settled down yet, the ongoing turmoil around the Eurovision winner, mostly that particular gender expression of hers, when this Friday schoolboys in Nantes (Western France) have attended their studies in skirts. What's even more noteworthy here is that it was a campaign for challenging sexism.  

Now, had it happened in my country that is struggling to made its way to the EU (it's Ukraine, in case you didn't know)...the thing is that it would have never happened here. The mere suggestion would outrage all of the devil's BFFs – far-right wing and religious freaks, as it did in France, actually. Malheureusement, they would surely outnumber the French.  

In case you are still whining about the situation with the the gender equality and discrimination in your country (and I'm not mocking it), you should really know that anti-discriminatory law has only been passed few days ago. Furthermore, it does not say a word about the discrimination based on sexual orientation and is generally quite ambiguous, which is totally intolerable for a legislation of any sort.

Surprisingly how, even when integrated into Western world to some considerable extent through my current job, media and pop culture products consummation, living here forces me to get amazed when my fellow student makes a speech on gender inequality at our Rhetoric class. And it does amaze everyone else. 

The aforementioned schoolboys have faces a crowd of angry opposition. Yet, it failed to stop them. Neither did it stop vast majority of EU citizens from believing sexism and stereotyping based on gender to be rather disturbing.  

It is essential, however, that you don't get the wrong impression here. I do not think the war is over in the West in terms of reaching social equality. Still, I can't stop wondering what could have possibly prevented us from getting same rates so far. Perhaps, it is about time and we will get to that point eventually, but for now what is left for us to do is keep bringing these issues up whenever we can for them to begin at least sound commonplace.