{"id":263243,"date":"2015-03-09T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=263243"},"modified":"2015-03-09T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T11:10:13","slug":"%e2%80%9cno-to-patriarchy%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9crepoliticize-march-8%e2%80%9d-march-in-yerevan-in-honor-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day-photo-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/03\/09\/%e2%80%9cno-to-patriarchy%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9crepoliticize-march-8%e2%80%9d-march-in-yerevan-in-honor-of-international-women%e2%80%99s-day-photo-video.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo to Patriarchy,\u201d \u201cRepoliticize March 8\u201d: March in Yerevan In Honor of International Women\u2019s Day (PHOTO, VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t“Bro, what’s feminism?” asked a 25-year-old man his friends on Abovyan street upon seeing dozens of citizens marching in honor of International Women’s Day, March 8. The young man, who had read one of the marchers' shirt writing “Feminism is Cool,” received no answer from his friends and stood silently for a few minutes while the loud marchers passed him by.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe main objective of the organizers of the march was spelled out on a large poster reading “Women’s Rights Day,” and not to motherhood or beauty, as March 8th is often perceived in Armenia.\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe march moving through downtown Yerevan received various responses from people – shock, enthusiasm, ridicule – but there was nearly no indifference. Many passersby took out their phones to record the march, some giggled, others, taking some of the fliers handed out by the marchers, discussed whether the writing was “true.”\n<\/p>\n

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