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had no idea that November 19th was International Men’s Day (IMD).
Honestly I didn’t know there was an International Men’s Day. I certainly
knew of International Women’s Day, which has been celebrated for over
100 years.
Today, on IMD, I learned that Professor Thomas Oaster, University of Missouri, was bullied and harassed by students and administrators when he tried to celebrate IMD in the early 1990′s. His career was in ruin by the vicious attacks of the University community until he sued and won compensation for the wrongs he suffered.
International Men`s Day is a little known and largely ignored day, but it didn’t escape the attention of Susie Boniface at “The Mirror”, who decided to celebrate this day by writing a sarcastic, hate-filled article to ridicule men. A piece laced with self-aggrandization, and bitterness, belittling men and men’s suffering at every opportunity.
In her orgy of self-pity she hints that all men are rapists with endearing statements that women could “throw ourselves behind a day that might prompt men into speaking out about rape, and perhaps taking a day off from it.” Of course “women, we are above all that,” she re-assures us, “we women will just get on with everything else.” She then suggests to men “Don’t hurry back.”
I feel so appreciated now, don’t you?
Today, on IMD, I learned that Professor Thomas Oaster, University of Missouri, was bullied and harassed by students and administrators when he tried to celebrate IMD in the early 1990′s. His career was in ruin by the vicious attacks of the University community until he sued and won compensation for the wrongs he suffered.
International Men`s Day is a little known and largely ignored day, but it didn’t escape the attention of Susie Boniface at “The Mirror”, who decided to celebrate this day by writing a sarcastic, hate-filled article to ridicule men. A piece laced with self-aggrandization, and bitterness, belittling men and men’s suffering at every opportunity.
In her orgy of self-pity she hints that all men are rapists with endearing statements that women could “throw ourselves behind a day that might prompt men into speaking out about rape, and perhaps taking a day off from it.” Of course “women, we are above all that,” she re-assures us, “we women will just get on with everything else.” She then suggests to men “Don’t hurry back.”
I feel so appreciated now, don’t you?





