Internation (or National) Mens Day or Week

Jingo... said:
Wouldn't 'National Equality Day' seem more apt?

The promotion/celebration of either sex over another seems to be somewhat contradictory?
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National Equality day would be better, I agree. It makes me cringe when women want equality but only to the point where it benefits them over men.

However there are still countries and cultures where women don't have many rights (if any?) and I think it's more about that rather than having more women in powerful positions and so on here in the modern world. Men are not facing that problem in these places so therefore they don't need a day to promote it I guess.
 
twentyone said:
However there are still countries and cultures where women don't have many rights (if any?) and I think it's more about that rather than having more women in powerful positions and so on here in the modern world.
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Yes I think you've hit that right on the head. Thanks for sharing :)
 
Funny that a lot of feminists talk Stats and figures about how they are being discriminated. However they turn a blind eye to Stats about how rare females graduates are in certain fields, heard a long time ago about some wife complaining about discrimination in the finance industry, little did she know that it was ~18% were females in the industry with only 20% of graduates being female!
You can't have a fire with no fuel.
 
Morbius said:
I can't think of any good music that has truly white origins.
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You can't be thinking very hard then can you! Or are you willing to discount Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and the whole classical music scene which has influence all manner of music upto and including heavy metal or are you willing to discount where the majority of our music scales are derived from including the blues scale?
 
maustin said:
You can't be thinking very hard then can you! Or are you willing to discount Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and the whole classical music scene which has influence all manner of music upto and including heavy metal or are you willing to discount where the majority of our music scales are derived from including the blues scale?
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Okay, you got me. I wasn't thinking of classical music.
 
jp_bl_68 said:
Yes. Centuries of oppression created the blues.
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So who was doing the oppressing being as the usage of the "blues" notes in say a 7 note diatonic scale are African in origin and predating "white" oppression. Or are you on about the oppression of black Africans by black Africans? In which case how is that relevant.
 
maustin said:
So who was doing the oppressing being as the usage of the "blues" notes in say a 7 note diatonic scale are African in origin and predating "white" oppression. Or are you on about the oppression of black Africans by black Africans? In which case how is that relevant.
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A quick google suggests that the scale you mentioned has Slovenian origins. Slavs are white, aren't they? Not sure. Anyway, I think my point stands.

Then you have rock music which evolved from blues and was popularised by the white men who borrowed it from black performers. That's more MOWO fodder.
 
jp_bl_68 said:
A quick google suggests that the scale you mentioned has Slovenian origins. Slavs are white, aren't they? Not sure. Anyway, I think my point stands.

Then you have rock music which evolved from blues and was popularised by the white men who borrowed it from black performers. That's more MOWO fodder.
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Greek rather than Slav but like I say it is the all important blue notes that mark its difference and they are African in origin. Blue was popularised by the likes of Robert Johnson long before the likes of Clapton and Page. Blues is fundamentally black in origin so is jazz its no big deal who cares just enjoy them. If you know as much about the blues as you profess you would know that its the group who are celebrating their international day that have sown the seed for the inspiration for more blues songs than probably anything else irrespective of skin colour.
 
You actually want a day to celebrate being a man? I really struggle to care about the supposed inequality here, if some people feel they need a day to highlight their cause then so be it - I'm pretty happy with my lot in life without needing the recognition so why not let the people who do want something like this have it? Although as bam0 points out the International Mens Day already exists.
 
semi-pro waster said:
You actually want a day to celebrate being a man? I really struggle to care about the supposed inequality here, if some people feel they need a day to highlight their cause then so be it - I'm pretty happy with my lot in life without needing the recognition so why not let the people who do want something like this have it? Although as bam0 points out the International Mens Day already exists.
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Said 10x better than I could, spot on.
 
maustin said:
Greek rather than Slav but like I say it is the all important blue notes that mark its difference and they are African in origin. Blue was popularised by the likes of Robert Johnson long before the likes of Clapton and Page. Blues is fundamentally black in origin so is jazz its no big deal who cares just enjoy them. If you know as much about the blues as you profess you would know that its the group who are celebrating their international day that have sown the seed for the inspiration for more blues songs than probably anything else irrespective of skin colour.
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I don't know anything about the blues I was just being an arse.
 
International Men’s Day in the UK on Wednesday 19 November 2014

http://ukmensday.org.uk/

The theme for 2014 is “Working Together For Men and Boys”
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So what's your plans to

  • HAVE SOME SERIOUS FUN
  • HIGHLIGHT SOME SERIOUS ISSUES
  • CELEBRATE MEN AND BOYS IN ALL THEIR HAIRY DIVERSITY
 
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