In the US no one pays attention to this day. We have so many fake holidays, like Pi day, we’re saturated. If we don’t get a paid holiday or a gift we don’t care.
A little off-topic, but IWD is a prime example of capitalism being able to absorb and even monetise messages intended to destroy it. Like, the holiday went from Soviet propaganda to being embraced by the corporations, and very few people even stop to think how strange this is.
One of the major problems with wokeness is the false binary between "privileged" and "marginalized" where a group either is "oppressed" or has no issues worth talking about at all, with no room for any shades of gray in between. I applaud you for recognizing that the complexity of how we view women doesn't fit cleanly into this binary, but I thought that your comments about International Men's Day missed the mark. I don't think that one has to believe that men are "oppressed" to have a problem with the double standard. There are plenty of gender-related challenges that men face, whether it be the "women are wonderful" bias that you discuss here, the discrimination against men in STEM fields that you discussed in the Cory Clark interview, or a host of other issues such as higher rates of suicide and homicide victimization, shorter life expectancy, forced military conscription, longer sentences for the same crime, false rape allegations, and lack of services for male victims of domestic and sexual violence. We should be able to talk about these things.
Re "don't be a sissy" is an insult - it's worth noting that this is something that is encouraged primarily by women and their preferences. Is there anything less attractive to a woman than being needy / weak? Of course men do most or all of the work pointing their fellow men in that direction, but the root of "don't be a sissy" comes from female preferences.
So to summarize your position..."it's silly"... and then you went on for 12 minutes twisting yourself and knots trying to explain it as something that is understandable or in some ways justifiable?😂 I think I might argue that for the people who are actually pushing the movement and driving the train wokeism is a postmodernist power game and not a Christian heresy... it's getting a little ugly out there to continuously draw smiley faces and good intentions on people.
In the US no one pays attention to this day. We have so many fake holidays, like Pi day, we’re saturated. If we don’t get a paid holiday or a gift we don’t care.
Here in Oaxaca, Mexico IWD was a pretext to block traffic throughout the city, break windows, and paint graffiti in copious amounts. And for what?
Not a fan.
A little off-topic, but IWD is a prime example of capitalism being able to absorb and even monetise messages intended to destroy it. Like, the holiday went from Soviet propaganda to being embraced by the corporations, and very few people even stop to think how strange this is.
One of the major problems with wokeness is the false binary between "privileged" and "marginalized" where a group either is "oppressed" or has no issues worth talking about at all, with no room for any shades of gray in between. I applaud you for recognizing that the complexity of how we view women doesn't fit cleanly into this binary, but I thought that your comments about International Men's Day missed the mark. I don't think that one has to believe that men are "oppressed" to have a problem with the double standard. There are plenty of gender-related challenges that men face, whether it be the "women are wonderful" bias that you discuss here, the discrimination against men in STEM fields that you discussed in the Cory Clark interview, or a host of other issues such as higher rates of suicide and homicide victimization, shorter life expectancy, forced military conscription, longer sentences for the same crime, false rape allegations, and lack of services for male victims of domestic and sexual violence. We should be able to talk about these things.
Re "don't be a sissy" is an insult - it's worth noting that this is something that is encouraged primarily by women and their preferences. Is there anything less attractive to a woman than being needy / weak? Of course men do most or all of the work pointing their fellow men in that direction, but the root of "don't be a sissy" comes from female preferences.
So to summarize your position..."it's silly"... and then you went on for 12 minutes twisting yourself and knots trying to explain it as something that is understandable or in some ways justifiable?😂 I think I might argue that for the people who are actually pushing the movement and driving the train wokeism is a postmodernist power game and not a Christian heresy... it's getting a little ugly out there to continuously draw smiley faces and good intentions on people.