Things are quite interesting with this holiday. It began under the slogans of equality. Then, in the Soviet Union, it gradually turned into a day of chivalry and gentlemanship. And now it is once again becoming a date when it is customary to advocate for women’s equality, while knights and gentlemen with batons disperse women’s street protests.

I cannot say that I am greatly troubled by these problems, because I live in the best of worlds—the internet. Here, equality is embedded in the very foundation of existence, and it cannot be otherwise. This leaves its mark on my attitude toward inequality in the physical world. I perceive it with ethnographic curiosity. Like, “Goodness, in offline life, a mother of underage children cannot be subjected to administrative arrest—what an interesting native custom.” True, sometimes they are. Perhaps that is how judges fight for equality. Well, may they have a hiccup.

In our amazing world, people have the means to achieve independence. Those for whom independence is important can usually achieve it. And they can usually get help in doing so. Therefore, the most important thing that can be done to achieve equality, in my opinion, is to show others by your own example that, yes, it was possible. So that they want it too. So that they look for how it is done. So that they keep trying until they succeed.