It'd help if those same men (and I say this as a cis guy) would stop bringing up men's issues only and exclusively as a whataboutism in response to women's/trans rights/issues.
If you cared about these issues so much, you wouldn't have weaponized them to this extent.
there is a bit of a point when womens day is more widely known that mens day, however you cant expect anyone to celebrate or know about something if nobody actually contributes to it being known...
most people that spend all day on the internet complaining about "this group has a month, this group doesnt" "this group has a week, this group doesnt" never leave their house, and the simple equation will tell you, if nobody organizes an event, there will be no organized event... want a celebration, make one yourself
Literally worked for a women's health charity and that is the only group I know that celebrates international men's day. MRA dudes just want there to be a problem.
I mean… why not? Veterans fought for our freedoms. allowing us to live the way you and me do. I think that’s at least just as important as letting others know a guy should be able to do the dirty with another guy. My comment is asking why not increase recognition for veterans and NOT asking to decrease the recognition for pride month although I’ve heard people say that. I’m just stating that I feel the world would be a more respectful place if we all remembered just how hellish veterans lives were back in the past and even now
Yeah the whole point is they already do get months dedicated to them, it's just that people making that argument don't *really* care about the troops, they just want to bash LGBTQ+.
Pride month started at the stonewall riots. The gay community organically came back to stonewall a year after it happened and held a celebration of remembrance. It became a yearly tradition and started growing in size. Eventually, it started spreading to other cities to celebrate the gay community every year during that month. It eventually became so large that it became an officially recognized month.
There isn't just someone out there deciding who can and can't be celebrated. If veterans have a yearly celebration, they can keep putting resources towards it as much as they want. No one is preventing them from following in pride month's footsteps.
The point is that veterans already have a lot of appreciation, you muppet. The people that play the "why don't.." just don't pay attention/don't actually care.
the thing is pride moth is worldwide movement, if you want to make recognition for the veterans of your country go ahead and do it but is kind of obvious a worldwide movement will do more noice than the recognition of the veterans of just one country.
Can you imagine the absolute chaos of a worldwide veterans’ appreciation month though. Like yeah let’s get everyone who fought someone, probably someone from a different country because so many wars are international now, and celebrate that allllll together now…
I accidentally read this as "mouth" and spent way too long trying to figure out what that meant. Like is this trying to say veterans literally don't have mouths? Or maybe it's figurative and saying they just don't have public voices?
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u/TheReaperAbides 29d ago
It'd help if those same men (and I say this as a cis guy) would stop bringing up men's issues only and exclusively as a whataboutism in response to women's/trans rights/issues.
If you cared about these issues so much, you wouldn't have weaponized them to this extent.