Eight.Īnd Amadi of AmadiTalks pointed out last year that the Google doodles for Mother’s and Father’s Day fail to depict women actually parenting (or even women at all), as well as failing to depict any representations of parenting that aren’t middle-class and White. Google doodles that recognize innovators are overwhelmingly about men as of 2010, of 109 notable people recognized, 8 were women. ![]() Google has come under fire for its non-holiday doodles, which often recognize the lives of notable people. The first G is changed into the symbol for Venus, and the second O is a yellow flower. ![]() The logo replaces the normal primary colors with muted purple, red, yellow, and green. The Google doodle for International Women’s Day 2012. ![]() Because for Google, women are pretty much not important except as symbols of femininity. Obviously, feminists hopefully do all these things every day (or at least try), but IWD is a nice occasion to remind the rest of the world that half the population of the globe lives under different and unequal conditions than the other half.īut for Google? International Women’s Day is about flowers. ![]() Tweet from Avory Faucette that reads, “Big love for #IWD for all my trans women, queer women, WOC, WWD, neuroatypical women, fat women, & all women left out of dominant picture.” For feminists, IWD should also be a day where we celebrate women often left out of the dominant paradigm: A day that is dedicated to ending oppression against women, achieving gender equality, and celebrating women and their achievements.
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