seachto7 wrote: » Well, not hiring right wing f*ckwits is a good thing.
Nicolas Cage wrote: » My girlfriend's turn to cook tonight. She objected because of women's day. I told her it was a bullsh1t excuse and she was cooking. But as a compromise, I promised not to fart this evening.
Assetbacked wrote: » Fascist view.
bluewolf wrote: » Every single year "what about men" - it's in November. I must set a reminder to start a thread whingeing about how i hate men
the_pen_turner wrote: » what annoys us fools is that mens day is widly ignored . it get almost no media coverage. a few minutes at best. and at that it is all about male suicide or baldness. no debate about mens rights or equality issues. look at womens dy and you have a week of promoting women and how wonderfull they are and blowing up any tiny issue into a huge issue . all we want is the same treatment for mens issues and to stop over doing the womens issues lets face it men face more gender discrimination in this country than women do.
pumpkin4life wrote: » It's an open secret that in the docklands of Dublin, some of the firms there add points to people (HR department) for people who are a minority/gay etc in terms of the hiring process.
pumpkin4life wrote: » It even leaked a couple of months ago that Google were blacklisting employees who either had right wing views or visited right wing websites, or even both.
seachto7 wrote: » The day isn't about how wonderful women are and going for cheap meals and prosecco with the girlzzz. That's not what it should be about. What discrimination do men face in Ireland?
the_pen_turner wrote: » look at any of the mens rights threads and it will give you loads of examples. such as fathers right, paternaty rights, gender quotas on jobs , jobs that flatly refuse to hire men, etc. but thats not what this thread is about
seachto7 wrote: » These are wrong, and to be honest, I don't think about them, because they don't have any effect on me. What jobs flatly refuse to hire men? I also disagree with gender quotas.
seachto7 wrote: » What discrimination do men face in Ireland?
Quentin Some Stick wrote: » I really, really wish people would be as fired up about making Men's Day a thing in the lead up to Men's Day as they are on Women's Day. Try and talk to or engage men with it closer to the time and...they just want to give out about Women's Day. Women's Day didn't just spontaneously appear in its current form. People lobbied and organised and campaigned and held parties and marches and fundraisers. Not happy with international men's day? Then fcuking DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Cue moaning about how there's no point trying because wah wah feminists, something something brigade, moan moan safe space snowflakes. Probably with an irony free mention of how women and feminists have a victim complex. Anyways, last year was great craic. I've to work but then I'm off to a Repeal fundraiser at a tattoo place. I'd imagine it'll end up like last year, load of beours wearing black, bladdered and complimenting the sh1t out of each other
Omackeral wrote: » Single fathers face a torrid time in courts, for one thing. Also you said men should have no say in the abortion referendum/debate. Do you extend that point of view to women who are unable to have children?
seachto7 wrote: » I don't get your argument. It's a woman's issue.
eviltwin wrote: » Talking to my husband today he was moaning that IWD exists and why is there not one for men yada yada. I informed him there was such a day in November so he could plan what he wanted to do for it. His answer was he wasn't bothered and he didn't want to do anything. If men don't bother marking IMD then it's never going to become mainstream. It's a lost opportunity but that shouldn't mean we don't celebrate IWD.