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

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ChampagneSuperNova00 · 08/03/2025 18:17

….he doesn’t think it’s fair that men don’t get a day and I didn’t agree, so I am getting the silent treatment with a helping of grumpiness, bitterness and spikiness and lots of huffing….what on earth is this about?

I wouldn’t mind but I didn’t even mention it in the first place, he brought it up. Its like living with a huffy teen.

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asrl78 · 09/03/2025 22:47

JHound · 09/03/2025 18:29

What a stupid meme.

It isn't because if you make biased or cherry-picked comparisons, you can come to any conclusion you want.

You can compare women to the top 5% of men and project that onto ALL men being in a wonderful position at the expense of women. Alternatively, you can compare women to the lowest 5% of the population and project that onto ALL men to show how crap the male sex is and how superior women are. This is why critical thinking is ESSENTIAL in situations like this to analyse data properly and come to logical conclusions, otherwise yoy can program anyone to believe what you want, and indeed that is what the tabloid media do on a daily basis (and it works).

ChellyT · 10/03/2025 00:53

ChampagneSuperNova00 · 08/03/2025 18:17

….he doesn’t think it’s fair that men don’t get a day and I didn’t agree, so I am getting the silent treatment with a helping of grumpiness, bitterness and spikiness and lots of huffing….what on earth is this about?

I wouldn’t mind but I didn’t even mention it in the first place, he brought it up. Its like living with a huffy teen.

He's a twat! There is an international men's day in November every F'ing year! Just because women don't do the labour to make it magnificent like we do for ourselves and put on breakfasts/luncheons/brunches for the useless twat!

TemporaryPosition · 10/03/2025 06:36

asrl78 · 09/03/2025 22:39

You've missed the point, which is that although you find more men than women in positions of power/wealth, you also find more men in positions of destitution and criminality. The reason given is that although the mean IQ of men and women is around the same, the standard deviation of IQ's in men is larger than in women, hence in society you have more male than female geniuses but you also have more male than female losers. This is why you have more men in high positions and more men in prisons and on the streets. Blaming the male bias at the top end of society on patriarchy is flawed because when you look at the bottom end of society, it is unlikely patriarchy is trying to make our sons thick and useless to society. The article says nothing about "wanting more women to commit crimes" or anything about whether some people play the excessive red tape/nanny state card as a reason to object to genuinely valuable health and safety regulation, so I have no idea why you brought that up.

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Furthermore I would add that many few women die in the work place because they're not in jobs that are as dangerous. I don't know any female fishermen. I certainly wouldn't want to be one.

JohnTheRevelator · 10/03/2025 06:46

Every day has been mens' day for thousands of years and will probably continue to be IMO.

JohnTheRevelator · 10/03/2025 06:48

paintedwallpaper · 08/03/2025 18:20

hilarious that IMD is also international toilet day! 😂

Very appropriate 😂

Bernardo1 · 10/03/2025 07:51

If you really want to work him up, tell him that Trump will go down in history as the greatest misogynist, on top of his failures in economics and Imternstionsl Relations.
Aside from the rape allegations and the "Grab them by the pussy" comment. On winning his 2 elections, he denied the U.S. its first female POTUS. Probably won't happen in my lifetime.

Dragonfly97 · 10/03/2025 09:56

wastingtimeonhere · 08/03/2025 20:53

It's also International Akita Day, my God...he's behind a dog in the pecking order...😂

I'm ok with that 👌 😉

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