• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    What’s telling is that this is a late article and no one said shit about international men’s day.

    Again.

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    14 hours ago

    Most of my leaders in the public sector are men. Most of my leaders in the private sector are men. Most of the celebrated scientists are men. Most of the celebrated artists are men. Most of the statues around me, are statues of men. Most of the wealthiest people in the world are men.

    What contributions, beyond the sciences/humanumities and historic achievements, do other men want celebrated? How, beyond wealth/power and immortality, would those men like it to be celebrated?

    • Seleni@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      There is, on November 19th. Its stated goals are to bring more awareness to issues men face, like suicide, abuse, homelessness, and violence. It also is for celebrating men’s lives, achievements, and contributions.

      The joke (if you do need it explained) is Women’s Day without fail brings sexist men out of the woodwork. They bitterly complain about it, and whine that having such a day set aside just for women is discrimination, and that there should be a Men’s Day (totally either not realizing or not caring that such a day exists already).

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        21 hours ago

        Wow. Yeah. So. I honestly didn’t know there was a day. And I was unaware of the joke as a result, I guess. How obnoxious though!

        Every day is men’s day it would seem. And women should get more than a day.

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          20 hours ago

          That is the usual rejoinder we women give lol. Along with pointing out that maybe, instead of complaining about our day, these men could put their efforts towards increasing the awareness of Men’s Day (and I do feel it needs more awareness). But somehow they never do.

          • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world
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            Thats because when we do, we do in fact, get a bunch of women coming in saying “but women have it worse”. Like its the worlds shittiest competition.

            Reddit is horrible for it. Women claiming that men need to sort out their own shit. We try, and they call it toxic because its a group of men and no women. Like the men in sheds thing. It was supposed to be about men finding connections, because we apparently struggle with that. And a bunch of women started moaning about how they were being excluded. Some caved, and made it just another open to all thing. Which there already is plenty of.

            Theres a lot of bad actors on the internet. And one the main targets of these people is dealing with mens issues.

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            20 hours ago

            Totally agree. And as a man, I apologize and wish you didn’t have to endure that. We need to do better.

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    1 day ago

    maybe if women asked about women’s day on men’s day then men would know about men’s day

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    International Women’s Day is March 8. I had to look that up, but I’m confident that HR at my workplace will send out an email that week as they do every year.

    Interesting that people feel like they’re trolling people by asking a question there actually is a factual answer for as if it’s underlining some unfairness. Doesn’t work the same way as if there is not answer for the question. Actually shouldn’t you be happy you have a factual answer when someone trolls you with “When’s International Men’s Day?”

    Also HR didn’t notify me of International Men’s Day this week as they always do for International Women’s Day. The post above is the first I’ve heard of it. But thanks for letting me know this exists!

    If an International Men’s day was completely non-controversial, there would be no need for it.

    The fact that there is controversy indicates that there probably should be a day for discussion about it. I mean there isn’t much point to any International X Day, but if there’s a value for X that would be upsetting for some people, then maybe would should have a day for that to discuss why that is? People are writing articles and we’re discussing it right now, and there is value to that.

    So why is it controversial to have an International Men’s Day?