Upon deep reflection, I have concluded that it might indeed be the titties. (Thanks to @karlboll for his Men's Day post. For some reason I thought it was tomorrow)
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for telling me. It seems to be a very important holiday, but you might be right in thinking it's too somber for this site. Then again, no one complains about Memorial Day posts.
The titular song, from the Trey Parker, written and directed, 1997 live action movie about a Mormon who becomes a porn star. Matt Stone helped write it and both he and accused rapist, Ron Jeremy, also appeared in it. You know what to expect.
International men’s day already? This is a day to reflect on the historically hard life of men. Men’s accomplishments are so often ignored, try finding mentions of men in history, I challenge you to do it. Men don’t have much power in society and never had, and of course, men face so much discrimination and so many hurdles to success in life. It’s also true that society pressures and expects men to be able to do things like “be self sufficient” or “be useful in some way” or “better themselves” and that is tough.
But I suppose I can understand it. Even condone it perhaps. For men you can’t do these things, for men who haven’t don't anything, for men that feel small, or have their feelings hurt being left out of having their own special day- maybe this holiday helps them get by? And I guess that would make me part of the problem wouldn't it? Thrusting my expectations and concepts of a “man” as someone who doesn’t need their very own special holiday to not feel left out, because in my image of a “man” they would make every day count, and they’d do it because that’s what they are made of- not because they needed a pat and a biscuit for it. But that is kinda sexist isn’t it? I suppose that at the heart of it all are all our traditional ideas of gender identity. Perhaps we need more than one way to describe a “man”- a more traditionally masculine man who doesn’t want or need this day, and a more.... sensitive man who does?
I suppose the fact that I, nor any man I know, doesn’t feel unappreciated by society on any given day doesn’t mean other men can’t feel unappreciated? Although I strongly suspect that you’ll find the distinction in this case to be that if you’re feeling unappreciated by society most of the time- it probably isn’t because you are a man. It is more likely that you are surrounded by people who don’t appreciate how wonderful you are.... or that other things about you besides your gender might be the reason society doesn’t seem to appreciate you. I think that a day dedicated to the erosion of “toxic masculinity” might be a better service to those legitimate gripes we could make about challenges faced by the male gender. There surely are some things that men face, pressures and such, because of the gender roles accepted by society. I’d rather see us work to eliminate those personally. But to each their own. Happy... manning?
I checked my calendar and tomorrow is also the day of the Nuremberg trials. Yeah, I keep track of stuff like this.