Happy “Why Isn’t There an International Men’s Day” Day!

@Viscaria:

I don’t know how they thought no one would notice that Firstname McFirstname isn’t even a student.

Those were my thoughts, too. Doesn’t anyone check student IDs anymore? Or do they just figure that any extra bum filling their paltry seats is a good thing, and let it go?

I predict that he’ll actually be unmasked as a Firstname Firstnameson, BTW. Or maybe a Firstname McMiddlename.

In my opinion, the weirdest part of this whole story is the former President, Galandy, who resigned when she began to notice that her clubmates were bigoted against women and members of the LGBT+ community. But… it’s a Wildrose group. What was she expecting? What part of the Wildrose platform appealed to her, if she thinks bigotry is a bad thing? I dunno, it’s odd.

https://twitter.com/cavalorn/status/654934442549620736?lang=en

No doubt she fell for some wild but vague MAGA variation. That’s the problem with ‘wingers, they’re easily seduced by grand promises, but can’t be arsed to do their homework, and they consider the Grand Canyon-sized pitfalls to be just minor details, easily overlooked because ZOMG, the snake-oil salesman promised them a pink pegacorn pony!

every IWD

http://i.imgur.com/p2g4F0c.png

It’s obvious they don’t actually want a Men’s Day, they just want women to not have a day.

Anyway, I still had to work, but at least I spent nothing today and got to attend a Women’s Day March that ended up in a rally in front of the local Trump hotel. My voice is probably still going to be hoarse in the morning.

I love this guy:

Can somebody tell me why isn’t there an “Men’s International Day.”? Is it prejudice or a cover-up?

A cover-up! How would that work? A shadowy network of newspaper proprietors and TV executives suppressing all mention of the day? Facebook and Twitter automatically deleting posts which mention it? Because… reasons.

It’s easy to mark a spot in the calendar for your favourite issue. Here, look: I hereby declare next Tuesday, 14 March, International Putting Stuff on Your Cat’s Head Day. Boom, done! But… it won’t get much traction unless people actually make it happen. IWD works because people have got off their arses and organised events, written articles, marched etc. You know, stuff which takes more effort than whining on Twitter.

You want International Men’s Day to become a high profile thing, rather than a punchline for Richard Herring? Do stuff! Arrange with your local library to have a display highlighting work by male authors, since they’re so often overlooked. Get a hundred guys to picket a TV studio, wearing gags, to protest against the shameful under-representation of men on TV. Overnight, equip all the female statues in your capital city with moustaches, to draw attention to the lack of male figures in heroic statuary. Dress as a woman for the day, and wearing makeup, to demonstrate the abuse men get from women when they step outside normative male presentation.

There are a million ways you could make International Men’s Day newsworthy, but it takes work. Or you could just whine on Twitter. Your choice.

There isn’t one because it isn’t needed

Straight, white, cis-het, protestant christian males need their own day because if ANYONE else has ANYTHING, it MUST HAVE BEEN TAKEN from straight, white, cis-het, protestant christian males.

I almost want to see people dressed as Indy at the next Wildrose/neo-nazi protest. 🙂

I think I ticked off Husbeast’s nephew yesterday. I told them I’d forgotten about IWD when I agreed* to go have sushi last night and wanted to postpone. Husbeast was on board, but Nephew was unhappy and spent the rest of the evening in the guest room with the door shut. Am I a bad host because I don’t feel bad?

What did make me feel bad was watching The Taming of the Shrew (Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton version) and realizing that Petruchio was a straight-up abuser.

*knowing I’d have to foot the bill since Husbeast is short this week.

@Jenora Methinks the Wildrose Party is just another incarnartion of Preston Manning’s Refoooooooooooooooorm! Party. :/

@ Hambeast

Ugh, Taming of the Shrew. I remember hating it the first (and only) time I saw it in high school, and feeling a bit angry at the school for making me read/see it, without pointing out how abusive it was all around. My current self would have done the assignment on it by basically ranting about the abuse and how it disturbed and angered me, but past me cared more about the grade.

It really says something when the iconic image from “Kiss Me Kate,” which is based on it, is the scene where the guy publicly spanks the woman with a shovel.

The “Marowitz Shrew” is an adaptation of Taming of the Shrew as a tragedy of abuse instead of a “comedy” (including onstage brutalisation and rape, which I think is a rare case of it being depicted in a way that’s legit and totally non-salacious (no flesh, incidentally)). And it’s quite rightly horrible.

BitterSweet – Yeah. I never had to study that particular play in school and up until recently, I was also old movie averse. They showed the movie on the Turner Classic Movie channel last night. Blech.

I started watching TCM a few years back because of the commentary by the hosts and found it was really interesting to get my dad’s feedback on these old films. It still surprises me how progressive some of these old movies were back in the day. Of course, that was despite the views and norms of the times.

@Fishy Goat:
Pretty much, just at the provincial level. The name ‘Wildrose’, being Alberta’s provincial flower, adds an additional level of nativism to it all.

At the federal level, of course, Stephen Harper was a member of the Reform party while Manning was still running it, ran for election in the riding Manning had vacated in 2002, and later pretty much staged a takeover of the federal Progressive Conservative party before removing the ‘Progressive’ from the name.

There is no longer need for an international women’s day. There is no wage gap. The supposed gap is just a difference in the amount women make compared to the amount men make nationally. Women and men get payed the same amount for the same jobs. Women can vote. Women can get the same jobs and education men can. Women and men have reached a state of equality. If you can present me with one law in the united states that puts women at a disadvantage, then I will be more open minded. However, I know you will be unable to do this, because that law simply does not exist. And it never will in the United States.
I implore you to take this into consideration logically, and not emotionally. I do hope that some of you will be able to do that and not scream out at your screen. Thank you.