ligerdub wrote: » International Men's Day is the biggest Trojan horse going. It's branded as if it's the male equivalent of international women's day.....but oh no, it's different. Watch the sentiment on social media for the 2 days and see how they differ. IWD: wall to wall posts on twitter (par for the course) but more importantly it's crept its way into workplaces and sites like LinkedIn. Women's only lunches in corporate settings, companies promoting their high level women etc. Attention is given to junk studies on gender pay and other ignorant to logic statements. IMD: barely covered. When it is covered it'll be something like "let's celebrate the men fighting for gender equality". I think we all know what that comment means. Men can be celebrated, but only the feminist approved ones. The focus will be on how men can "be better" or how their maleness is a problem for society and it needs to be toned down. Serious issues about men will be turned around and blamed on men. Men more likely to homeless, commit suicide, be the victims of violence? Well, it's clear what the answer is, you're being a man wrong, you need to be more like women, masculinity is bad. BOOOOO! The vast majority of men don't care about IMD and are unlikely to care about IWD either save for the fact that it's good for optics. Both days are thinly veiled, largely feminist orientated social activist days. No thanks!
Bjorn Scarce Sorrow wrote: » Happy birthday OEJ! I love how hilarious the men I know are, and how they are always so helpful and kind and thoughtful and generous, and the great conversations i can have with them... and how they all have a bit of a kid streak - still lose their minds over Star Wars.
Mckenna Billions Tart wrote: » Almost 9 out of 10 Irish primary teachers are women, meaning that many boys have no male role models in the classroom. A recent study by Professor Dympna Devine, head of the school of education at University College Dublin, finds clear gender stereotyping among this almost entirely female teaching staff in how they spoke about boys and girls. Girls in school are seen as calm, mature and focused, while boys are regarded as boisterous and disruptive. No surprise then that boys significantly underperform girls at all levels of education, with higher grades and lower failure rates in almost every Leaving Cert subject. Fewer than half of Irish men aged 25 to 34 have third-level qualifications, compared with three out of five women in the same age group. Just 41 percent of students in Trinity College, the country's top-ranked university, are male. Just 42 percent of new entrants to medical school are male. Men account for almost 80 percent of the suicides recorded in Ireland. About 96 percent of the prisoners incarcerated in Ireland are male. I wonder will any of these statistics be highlighted on International Men's Day, or will it all just get brushed under the carpet as usual?
Bjorn Scarce Sorrow wrote: » Can you ever let it go? I don't believe half your anecdotes - because I don't know any women who behave in such a manner. You have a bizarre obsession with complaining about women (despite being one - yet somehow you're miraculously exempt) - you're relentless. What's at the root of this obsession? The important factor in the above is that your friends spotted testicular changes and one actually had cancer but got the treatment on time... yet you still had to throw in your dig.
PlaneSpeeking wrote: » Then why would on the one day that men can be at the forefront is one of the key events "Stopping men's violence against women and girls" ? That's judgemental and sadly typical.
Shenshen wrote: » Let us know how you celebrate it?
PlaneSpeeking wrote: » I imagine it will be largely mocked by people on here disregarding the fact that men are more likely to be homeless, victims of violence, victims of suicide, victims of murder and both discriminated against in matrimonial and family matters; and serve harsher sentences than women for the same offences. Interesting to note this: The first two events are basically men being blamed for violence against women. Couldn't leave the feminist agenda for one day eh ? Guys, remember you're not what the media say you are - you're partners, husbands, fathers, sons, friends, lovers, workers - and not the enemy.
Hector Savage wrote: » I wouldn't expect anything else from the Irish Times - remember this is a paper that said the Police doing their job about organised crime and begging was "racist" - despicable organisation.
Grayson wrote: » The only thing I don't like about movember is my boss. Every year he tries to get everyone to grow a moustache. If I grew one it would look manky. Really manky. I'd look like a scoobie or a serial killer
Bjorn Scarce Sorrow wrote: » And I love that world toilet day is the same date as men's day!
Bjorn Scarce Sorrow wrote: » Oh I love how men don't feel the cold easily! I'm the same and think some of my fellow women need to htfu! And I love that world toilet day is the same date as men's day!
Cordell wrote: » I get you, I'm the same, but any kind of facial hair will do. I actually consider keeping my movember beard, I mean, I was raising it since it was this little
suicide_circus wrote: » women feel cold more because when it's cold their bodies redirect warm blood from the extremities to the womb.
Bjorn Scarce Sorrow wrote: » Erra they need to put on a ****ing jumper!
suicide_circus wrote: » men are "under represented" in primary school teaching roles for the same reason they are "over represented" in prison populations - that is, directly proportionally to their disinterest in teaching young children and to their propensity to commit crimes.
suicide_circus wrote: » women feel cold more because when it's cold their bodies redirect warm blood from the extremities to the womb. analogous to how women are treated in the world but the driver is biology not malice.
suicide_circus wrote: » ^^^^ oh absolutely but those cases don't disprove the rule. men are in prison more because they are ON AVERAGE more aggressive, violent, risk-taking and are over represented at the lower (and higher) end of the IQ scale.
Mckenna Billions Tart wrote: » That's not the full story, alas. Men are treated far more harshly than women under the criminal justice system. Statistics from the UK show that men are almost twice as likely to be put into immediate custody for an indictable offence. For vehicle-related theft and assault, male first offenders are almost three times as likely to be sent to prison as female first offenders. Catwalk model Sophia Brogan-Higgins smashed a glass into the forehead of a female security guard in a nightclub, leaving a two-inch gash, and then kicked and slapped a policewoman called to the scene. Oxford student Lavinia Woodward stabbed her ex-boyfriend in the leg with a breadknife and threw a laptop at his head. Both women got off with suspended sentences. Had these offences been committed by men, you can guess what would have happened. Never underestimate what you can get away with if you are young, pretty, and female.
