Equality Starts With Appreciation

We should appreciate the people in our lives for one thing only: the size of their hearts. However, as a society we still build walls instead of bridges, keeping others away or down. We do this for a plentitude of reasons that all have one thing in common: they lack all reason.

Take gender inequality as an example: it’s been proven by now that - on average - women are superior to men in many ways, inferior in others, but in no way less valuable. And as long as their equality isn’t cemented into our society and culture, we have to celebrate them and their achievements for which they often had to put in more effort than their male peers.

This is what today’s International Womens Day should remind us of.

I celebrate my family: my wife Niloufar Nabiyouni, a feminist who made me a fighter for gender equality, too; my mother, my sisters, my niece, my grandmothers, my close female friends that are like family to me - all enriching every day of my life!

I celebrate my female team mates and co-workers, active in the male-dominated world of the automobile: https://newsroom.bugatti/en/press-releases/bugatti-development-julia-lemke

I celebrate the female guests on my podcast: so far only Alex Hirschi aka Supercar Blondie, Valerie Thompson and Sophia Fl?rsch - all three of them succeeding in said macho car world: https://lovethepodcast.com/DR1V3on

I celebrate single mothers working so hard to give their children a better shot at life, one they probably never had themselves.

I celebrate women in power who had to make incredible sacrifices to get there, and who even after reaching the top have to proof their worth over and over again to be taken serious and not be seen as too soft...

I celebrate those who feel like a woman and are one, but society only recognises them for the body they were born into.

I celebrate all women (and men) who stood up for women’s rights over the course of history, facing adversity, challenging the status-quo, paving the long and tedious path towards gender equality.

I celebrate little girls (and boys) who haven’t been perverted yet by our own (subconscious) misconceptions and see the only relevant (and small) difference between a boy and a girl when they take a naked bath together.

They know what we have grown to forget: girls and boys, women and men, no matter the gender, the colour, the beliefs, or sexual orientation - we are all just tiny but equal pieces of a wonderful jigsaw-puzzle.