International Women's Day, congratulations!!!

Ciljettu's chauvinism is very thinly veiled by his sanctimoniousness.

You may be speaking about legitimate injustices, but the venue you chose to raise them in, and the refusal to acknowledge any sense of proportion, says far more about your message than the message itself.

**Must buy Dad a present on Mother's Day**

The intent of your original post was clear.  I don't believe for a second that you're actually campaigning for an International Men's Day, that's part of the thin viel I mentioned.  No, your post was an attack on the idea of an International Women's Day.

Plus, if you'd taken two seconds to actually Google it, as I just did, you'd have saved yourself looking awfully foolish right now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Men's_Day

And while we're at it, we need to hijack a thread about International Women's day to make that point.

Congratulations, you've crapped all over something that should have been a nice sentiment.

There's that patronizing chauvinism again.  Are you even remotely aware of the contributions of women to various war efforts?

The thing that bothers me most about mysogynists, is their taste in shoes...

Do you also spend the month of February bemoaning the plight of Caucasians?

I don't think trysts has a dislike for men, probably just for you.  You seem pretty intent on taking offense on behalf of an entire gender when the statements are clearly directed at you as an individual.  To be clear:  you don't speak for me, and I don't need you taking offense for me.

Poor girl. It must be worrisome for her that all your friends have been "falsely" accused of rape.

I never heard of either International Women's Day or International Men's Day before this thread. So apparently both are lacking in publicity.

trysts comment about Mothers vs Fathers Day was right on the nose since there is, in fact, a Women's Day and a Men's Day.

You are failing to address major points against your argument. You seem to have a complete disregard for the scale of problems, failing to distinguish between rare cases of injustice and systematic failures of justice.

More to the point, using rare instances of one kind of injustice to diminish the systemic problems by contrast.  I don't for a second believe it's a failure to distinguish, it's an intentionally disingenuous argument.

Many of the "problems" that affect Caucasians also affect men.  Money, power, influence and most disturbingly, a long history of oppression....

I agree, it's not only about numbers, it's also about root causes.  While both are individual victimization one is also a systemic societal failure, especially as you look beyond Western cultures.

Repeating it doesn't make it true.

I can't wait for International Men's Day, then we can all work together on stopping men from falsely accusing women of rape.

When are you going to present cogent, logical arguments? That would do a lot more to convince us than repeating poorly reasoned statements.

Repeating it doesn't make it true.

Whoa, you're right -- it is a systemic problem.

Cause tabloids are so well known for their high quality, accurate reporting.

It is astounding that you are arguing that being found innocent of a crime is as bad as being raped.

Then how come you keep presenting stories about people who were found innoncent?