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I picked the wrong time to quit drinking. As if it isn't bad enough that so many men ask on international women's day,

"when is international men's day?" "19th of November"

"what year?"

"every year"

But that instead of having actual proper legitimate biological women to talk about what being a woman is, they pick an OBVIOUSLY male manly man with a delusion to speak over women about women's experiences when they know the square root of eff all about it, it literally makes me want to scream over the actual insanity of it all.

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It must be International Ugly Men In Wigs Day. He needs Larpers Anonymous not more attention.

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😂🤭

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Ugly Men In Wigs Day - that’s a job for Moley. I can’t wait 😂

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Isn't every day "International Men's Day"??

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Yes, considering that we're living in the last days of Rome, smoking and drinking sound pretty appealing, don't they? I love freaking out "medical professionals" by telling them I'm thinking of taking up smoking.

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An interesting P.S.: There is also World Men's Day on a different date. I actually have no idea of what's the difference between those two, nor why they should matter or be there in the first place. I just find the absurdity of there even being two Men's Days slightly amusing.

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I'm boycotting it this year. Can't be arsed with getting myself wound up again, being cross that out of the whole of the female population they can never find anyone that's a better woman than a man, to help celebrate the one fucking day of the year that should be about us.

Pffft.

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I can't be arsed either. I just taunted myself by reading a piece by Karen Price in todays Guardian. Headline - Courageous feminism means no woman must be left behind - and that means trans women too. It's the usual cut and paste load of shite that everyone here will be familiar with.

It ends with the words 'leave no woman behind'. Presumably, that doesn't include the women who have pushed aside so that men can have things their way entirely at the expense of women. Men like Lia Thomas, for example, or that arsehole from New Zealand, the names gone (unlike him, unfortunately).

But Karen shows that she knows her place, describing herself as a 'white cisgender woman'. She doesn't even allow herself to be a woman, she's too busy giving her rights and identity away. And she's doing the same for women who aren't giving their consent to it.

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Yep, another thing appropriated, rainbow flag, international women's day etc etc ...

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Oh ffs. I looked at his face and actually said that Oh ffs out loud. I am so sick of this absolute rubbish.

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International Women's Day in Canada is a joke. An extra special day to remind women that, as a sex class, they have been obliterated.

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We have a government department called Women and Gender Equality Canada. It used to called the Status of Women. Here’s a blurb from them for International Women’s Day:

“In Canada, unlike in many other countries, women are free to study and be leaders in the field they choose, care and provide for their family, express who they are, and fight for their beliefs.”

Yeah, unless you happen to gender critical. You could well end up in court for fighting for your “belief” in biological reality, or for caring for your family by rejecting “gender affirmation.” You’re free to study and lead in fields of your choice as long as you toe the ideological line.

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Just realising 'gender equality' really does just mean *and men, doesn't it? So gender = men. We've added 'men' on to every single bloody women's everything. Every word, term, team, organisation, day, space, experience and right now MUST include the only really womanning women, as in men.

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This doesn't help or work for men either. Men need to know what their rights and responsibilities are just as women do.

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What responsibilities?

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We should right them a list. You know, I'd like to start a post modernist deconstruction of man and see how they like it lol 🤣

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Have you seen what a woman on Spinster posted about bills coming up for consideration in Canada? One of them would make alternative news sites illegal. ?????

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no, I'll keep my eye out, of course.

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That sounds positively Russian

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"Sara will be chatting about a variety of topics, in particular those that affect transgender women in terms of inclusion." It's International Women's Day, ladies, to celebrate you we've organized a lecture on how you can more effectively centre men.

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You couldn't made this crap up. I'd love to track how many hit peak trans from stuff like this.

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All the work/industry events I see advertised for IWD talk about 'gender equality' and I just know that is obfuscation to hide that these organisations don't think women are people just an "identity". The word gender, like the words trans is just used to hide the truth now.

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I fully expected International Women's Day to intruded upon by anyone claiming to be women. Why not? They have forced themselves into every other space that was intended for women. No, we don't get a single fucking day in the year where women's experiences, opinions, achievements, etc., can be focused on, celebrated and remembered or whatever.

Get your own day, have it all, do what the fuck you want with it. Add it to International Transgender Day of Visibility and any others in the calendar.

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There's a "contact the organiser" option on Eventbrite so feel free to write in everyone. I've suggested an Al Jolson tribute for Black History month to keep the theme going....

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Done.

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Some fucking jaw too

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I don't usually comment on looks but ffs he's not even trying it's becoming a really sick joke at this point

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We women have had our looks commented on our entire lives. If men want to pretend they are women, they deserve the same consideration.

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It's not his fault he has a male jawline. The ones who have "feminisation surgery" on their faces actually do start to look like a woman which makes it harder to tell. Which makes it deception, which is worse than mere self-delusion.

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On Spinster yesterday someone linked to an Exulansic video about a young male who had his penis turned inside-out. The surgery has gone horribly but he wants facial feminization surgery though I thought he passed quite well; he may have started taking wrong-sex hormones fairly early on. It seemed to me that he must be working as a prostitute since he sends photos of his surgical wound to men.

I've not noticed that facial surgery helps men pass -- look at Jenner; he just simply looks weird. The entire face becomes unbalanced.

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Ah now I remember why there were so many Irish jokes!!!

A sobbing Ms Murphy approaches Fr O'Grady after mass.

He says: "So what's bothering you?"

She replies: "Oh, Father, I've terrible news. My husband passed away last night."

The priest says: "Oh, Mary, that's terrible. Did he have any last requests?"

"Certainly father," she replied. "He said: "Please Mary, put down that damn gun."

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My favorite Irish joke is about why we know Jesus was Irish.

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Christ. As if they haven’t just had a whole month of speaking over the LGB as if it’s all about the TQ+, they hog the women's month as theirs as well.

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This will annoy folks though. Their greed at grabbing the spot light will surely peak a lot of people

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I hope you’re right. It feels as if so many (women too) wear blindfolds and have their fingers in their ears. I’m sick of being asked ‘How will trans rights affect you?’

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Peak trans - once you take a peek you can't unpeek.

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A major Health Service provider has decided to use the day to give male 'allies' a nice certificate to thank them for not being douches in the past 5 years. The idea came from a woman. It's a fetching farce.

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I'm trying to think what this phenomena is - like emperor's new clothes beer goggles but making everyone else wear whiskey whisky beer vodka goggles and a hazmat suit. And a bag over head and ear plugs so we are deluded in thinking this is a sylphlike young woman.

When they dress and larp age appropriately with all their 'older woman's sage advice on life' to dispense to us it's not more reassuring than the ones who drop thirty years from their age and dressed as sexualised teens.

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Ok that man is a character straight out of Father Ted. I mean look at him. 'Sara'? We are living in one big mockumentary.

*In the time it took to not post then post this comment, I spiralled out of control and

Oh come on now that's surely a character from Father Ted's League of Gentlemen? 'Sara'? Yeah right. Life is now one weird endless mockumentary I feel trapped in against my will. I need Dougal to ask the question - and the obvious answer this must also be a bet that got way out of hand.

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FFSaaaaake; that is all.

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Out of all the women in Wicklow ,they couldn't find one to give a moderately interesting talk.Strewth!

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