“D”H being rude and spiky because of international women’s day…

The bitter spiky huffing sounds hilarious 😂
You should be spiky whilst huffing bitterly on 19th November this year 😅

Exactly.

I was having fun yesterday telling men how to google, or asking them what they were organising.

OP You married a toddler who is having a tantrum because some other kid is having a birthday party and he isn't even though he had a party last week.

Exactly - thick AND sexist, and the father of daughters, plus a sulker too. Jeez what a ravishing combo……

Ask him if he'll promise to shut up about it if it turns out there is an International Men's Day. Then show him the evidence.

He sounds thick and childish. Which must be very off putting. I wonder when you realised he was like this? There must be other signs he's not bright? & hates women?
Sorry though, being married to someone like that is shit.

I'm a man, I think International Women's Day is wonderful. I don't know what some men are complaining about.

It's not a day when men routinely experience the fear of being beaten, murdered, or raped by a partner. We don't suddenly experience entrenched social misogyny, or being talked over in "serious" discussions at work.

Everyone should want to celebrate the role of women in the world, and to fight for equal opportunities for all. 50% of the population is not somehow a lesser version of men. In the current Andrew Tate, Conor McGregor world, where teenage boys have 24/7 access to porn, International Women's Day is as important as it ever was.

There is one chilling statistic. In almost every time, in almost every country, in almost every society, statistically the most dangerous person in the world to almost every woman is her partner, ex-partner or male relative.

That should give most of them pause.

Ewwwww, is he a baby?

Well quite. It's not like women are all sent cards and money or anything.

It's an awareness day. I post a lot of stuff every day about Afghanistan and Iran, the Tuam babies, the Counting Dead Women project...etc, but today, I get to put a #IWD hashtag on so that anyone searching that hashtag can see whatever women's issue people are talking about.

It's not a bloody holiday. What is he missing out on?!

To be honest, all the IWD spam on socials has been doing my head in. I've spent the day with my biggest supporter: my husband. I wouldn't be half the woman I am without him. So I've been celebrating him today 🤷‍♀️

What is it about IWD that makes him feel hard done by..I mean it's literally nothing to do with him 🤷🏼‍♀️

Every day that a man can walk wherever he wants, at whatever time of day or night he wants, is international men's day.
Every day that a man can drink in a pub, eat in a cafe, travel on any form of public transport, without being bothered when doing any of these things, is international men's day.
Everyday that a man can park his car anywhere he wants without giving his safety a single thought is international men's day.
So basically men get a 'day' every single day

How deeply unattractive.

What a petty cock.

Put an event in his calendar for a week before next years one. The event is ‘remembering there is an international women’s day, and instead of being a pathetic sulking twat to my wife and daughters, getting the fuck over myself and being glad there is this for my daughters at least even if I am just too childish to be nice or supportive to my wife.’

Maybe show him some facts - eg the age of consent and marriage is 9 in Iran; women are now banned from education and speaking to female friends in public in Afghanistan; it wasn’t until 1993 that marital assault became a crime in all 50 US states; that no man in history has ever died as a result of childbirth; that sexual and violent assaults by men in women in the UK are rising…and then ask him why exactly he feels hard done by, oppressed, disadvantaged and bitter? Pathetic.

I find it difficult to advise in these situations because, for me, if a man has to think about why something like IWD is necessary for more than about thirty seconds, then I tend to think that there is little hope of them ever having the intellectual capacity to be in a truly equal and respectful relationship with a woman.

It also concerns me significantly that he is being ‘off’ with you about it. Smacks of coercive control.

However, you are married to this man, and if you wanted to try to move things forward, could you…?

1. Explain to him firmly that you need your life partner to be someone who has a genuine appreciation of the impacts of structural inequalities and the necessity of attempting to right them,
2. Tell him that his behaviour towards you has been completely unacceptable and you will not tolerate it.
3. Tell him that he has 24 hours to reflect on the above and correct his attitudes and behaviour.
4. Tell him that, at the end of the 24 hours, there will be a family meeting at which he will be expected to apologise to you for his behaviour and to your daughters for having harboured the misogynistic attitudes that he did.

Then keep a very sharp eye out of any repeats of this behaviour or similar attitudes and reconsider the marriage if you see it again.

That's terrifying.

Where in the world do you live, that you can be married to a 12 year old boy?

Tell him International wankers day is everyday lol

That’s not fair ! Men get 19th November AND 1st April……(😉just sayin’)

The whole world is designed for the benefit of men. And he resents one day being focussed on women? What a prick.

Love this. Feel like all women should be demanding giant cookies on IWD, the least we deserve.

My wife told me it was iwd today so I made her a brew, took her for a walk, took her shopping, bought her a drink and food, drove her about. She's a wonder to put up with me for 29 years, deserves a medal.

What a man child.