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March 8 is international women’s day. The most ignored of all holidays by US culture. To an almost hilarious degree.

My partner frequently brags that she’s the only of her friends and coworkers, in 10+ years, who has ever gotten flowers for women’s day. Meanwhile even Uber drivers have wished her a happy women’s day in various heavy foreign accents.

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I feel some editorializing going on.

Here[0] is a list of many holidays that are ignored more than international women’s day.

Happy International Day of Plant Health to you!

0: https://www.un.org/en/observances/list-days-weeks

international day of plant health is on may 12, not today!

November 19 is international men's day. How many times have you gotten flowers on that day? Or Uber drivers wishing you a happy men's day?

lol. why arent we celebrated more

The joke goes as following: Women are celebrated once a year... because men have the rest of the days.

Fathers in the US can go out in public doing the absolute minimal amount of parenting work with a kid and bask in the warmth of approval from all observers.

International men's day isn't a thing in the US either, so that's not surprising. Contrast to Mother's/Father's Day, which are.

Like May 1st which is snubbed in favor of (non-organized?) Labor Day, and, well, the metric system which has somehow still not been adopted in the US...

> Like May 1st which is snubbed in favor of (non-organized?) Labor Day

Oh don’t even get me started! Labor Day was specifically set for a different day than May 1st to discourage solidarity with international labor movements. Wouldn’t want people to feel a camaraderie with the communists and socialists abroad

// My partner frequently brags

March 8th is for the partners, mother's day is for the wives :)

Just kidding but couldn't resist.

Flowers for women's day is another ultimately weird tradition in many countries. Weird because the point of women's day is equality and not to be treated like our little special ladies. I always half jokingly said a more suitable gift would be a mini wrench or a screwdriver.

I wouldn’t say that. I don’t believe a men’s day even exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Men%27s_Day

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