Except there is an International Men’s Day. Every single year.
Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate and pay tribute to the important female figures in your life and to commemorate the struggles that women have endured to achieve equality throughout history.
In 2017, the theme for International Women’s Day is #BoldforChange, with people all over the world being encouraged to call on the masses to help forge a better-working and a more inclusive, gender-equal world.
Unfortunately, every single year, the day itself brings out a minority of men who want to rain on the parade by wondering aloud, or at least on social media, why there is no International Men’s Day.
Those people seem to conveniently forget that there IS an International Men’s Day on November 19, but despite the fact that it has a firm place in the calendar, it seems to be conveniently forgotten every single year.
That’s where stand-up comedian Richard Herring comes in and this year, as he has done on this day every year for the past number of years, he is tirelessly facing down some of the more ignorant males on Twitter to serve them a timely reminder.
Below is just a sample of tweets from a very busy morning for Richard so far.
Follow @Herring1967 today as he takes on his hilarious annual task of replying to everyone who asks why there's no International Men's Day.
— Richard Osman (@richardosman) March 8, 2017
November 19th RT @Aidan_smith_: When's international men's day
— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) March 8, 2017
There is. November 19th. Tell Lizzy RT @katrixie: "Why isn't there an international men's day???" #livewithlizzy
— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) March 8, 2017
If only we could harness all this power and anger and put into actual IMD, imagine how big it would be.
— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) March 8, 2017
Just having a shower. Can someone else keep an eye on it for 5 minutes?
— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) March 8, 2017
Just wondering if there's an "international men's day" if not one should start from next yr,I don't like all this discrimination against us
— Robin L McGilvery (@McGilveryRobinL) March 8, 2017
There is one. You're ok. It's Nov 19. One step closer to equality! https://t.co/Ab5AUaPioV
— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) March 8, 2017
Why isn't there an international men's day is the new why isn't there a straight pride
— David (@davmcdngh) March 8, 2017
I dunno. Almost like most people would be excruciatingly embarrassed to be involved. https://t.co/Yy7VzkDZw7
— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) March 8, 2017
Imagine if all men worked as hard as I do to promote international men's day how MASSIVE it would be.., they don't though do they? Weird!
— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) March 8, 2017
I guess all those guys blow their passion for it in March and can't recover by November. There's the inequality. Why isn't men's day first?
— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) March 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/thepowrhouse/status/839437207039463425
If only half of society was made up of men maybe we could do something about that. https://t.co/VPY5iG0HNl
— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) March 8, 2017
See you again on March 8, 2018, Richard.
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