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Women ruining International Men’s Day by repeatedly asking ‘Yeah but when is International WOMEN’S Day’ (newsthump.com)

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 42 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

Again.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 34 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Even men don't care about the day.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I'm not international so...

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago

Nice try, Pitbull. We all know it’s you!

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

I had no idea there was one.

[–] Beebabe@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Except on women’s day

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

The day that does more to remind men what being valued looks like than men's day does.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Every day is men's day!

High five, broskis!

/s ? I think? Maybe?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, I know very few international men.

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

I only know one. And hes also a mystery...

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

There should be 'intentional men's day', for FTM people.

[+] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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).

[+] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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 6 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 4 weeks ago

I don't complain because I like women

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world -1 points 4 weeks ago

Isn’t international men’s day everyday?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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?