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Jess Phillips hates this
Man who always asks 'What about International Men's Day?' somehow forgets it's todayWe just quietly get on with the day without making a scene unlike international women’s day
And you tell us when there is only 3 hours left of it.....typical woman
It’s probably all women because we don’t teach our boys to talk about shit like that. We need to.On Twitter it all seemed to be about depression, suicide and how I should really be crying right now. And most of it from women. Nowt positive or inspiring at all.
Was very disappointed. Nowhere near as much fun as International Women’s day.
To be honest, I might see if I can give it a swerve next year and have an additional pancake day instead.
Should have been tomorrow, it's my birthday !
Same as when our lass told me that yesterday was give your hubby a blow job day..... just 364 days to goAnd you tell us when there is only 3 hours left of it.....typical woman
It’s probably all women because we don’t teach our boys to talk about shit like that. We need to.
It's Men's Day everyday, love.
Can you tell me why you think I’m lecturing you on your behaviour?Yeah. That’s the kind of patronising crap I was reading today.
There’s far more to it than just ‘teaching’ and ‘talking’ about stuff like that.
Do you welcome men lecturing you on how they feel you should be behaving?
Can you tell me why you think I’m lecturing you on your behaviour?
I’m saying that society makes it difficult for men to deal with certain things and as a society “we” need to fix that. And I’m society, so that includes me.
If you disagree, how do you think we should tackle the issues in my OP?
I couldn’t agree more with what you’re saying, and in fact that’s exactly what I meant when I said “we” need to do something.The lecturing aspect came from you seemingly stating what the problem was and what we need to do to solve it i.e. we don’t teach boys to talk and we need to. The former isn’t necessarily true and the latter is only a small part of the solution.
It’s more than just men being able to deal with things. It’s also about how society treats men. What society expects from men. How society portrays men.
There are so many things that can be done to tackle the pressures/expectations facing men. And some of that can be driven and supported by women, such as help change childcare environments to be less focussed on ‘mums’.
Simply telling men why they need to change isn’t enough. And getting them to talk isn’t anywhere near enough.
Happy Birthday Waddys dad. I’m sure he was an excellent gentleman.My dad would've been 100 today. *raises glass*
We could do that or have a decent war.I couldn’t agree more with what you’re saying, and in fact that’s exactly what I meant when I said “we” need to do something.
I certainly wasn’t implying it was all men’s fault. In fact, the opposite. That as a society we need to sort this out, including and especially how society treats men and expects from them. My point around is teaching boys to talk about emotions comes from what society expects from them - be a man, don’t be girly, boys don’t cry, man up etc.
If you look at my posting history you’ll see I’m a huge vocal supporter of men taking on more childcare and stuff being less about “mums”. I was actually due to talk on 5Live last week about precisely that until it got postponed.