TL:DR - One search would tell you everything that's wrong with the human race honestly. Only here we'll hold you before the mirror, call you a faggot if you are one, and tell you to start with the lifting, read the stuff and implement them for your own good, and respect you when you succeed.

I am actually surprised there is actually something called an International Men's Day. I only got to know of it even when a couple of greeting pics got sent on the family group and some friends posted about it on Facebook - it seems to be getting a little popular now -- but obviously it's nowhere on the radar compared to the scale of International Women's Day.

My first reaction was to imagine a mental image of a beta husband getting butt hurt trying to negotiate validation for himself for being a man with his wife, and getting obviously burned in the process, and telling myself never to become that guy cause a) why take seriously something that changes like the weather and because b) You're a faggot when you live by other people's approval, and die by their rejection. Any husband in my whole family group and virtually everyone in the neighborhood or the entire state could easily be that guy.

So ok, I go to google, search for the men's day messages, and predictably, what I find is :

A lip service to the statistics, the suicides, the homocides, the mental illness, the prison sentences, the homeless men, the dangerous low level jobs, the workplace deaths, the falling academic grades, but NOT the divorce stats, the infertility and low T levels or the false rape claims or dead beadrooms -- of course.

Lots of messages about being emotional, vulnerable, and talking to others about the shit you're actually supposed to fix. Mostly by women, supported by their reverential white knights.

You have people and celebrities with mental and emotional issues, and habits (drugs, alcohol, the like), telling other men to be vulnerable because being vulnerable = showcasing your shit at all levels of your being and not your toned muscular body.

Lots of women approving messages from men who promise to be their saviors and treat them like the princesses they are (while the real issue is only if she actually feels that kind of admiration for her man)

A couple of faggots in ballerina costumes claiming masculinity is a social construct. Or photos of Justin Bieber.

Masculinity is all about men crying pics and memes and that men are shamed into hiding their fragility.

Men's day as a celebration of the fragile beings were are underneath that mask.

A few angry feminists claiming in all their apparently Buddhahood levels of sage wisdom that "Every day is a man's day. It's women who don't get appreciated".

Lots of men talking about the challenges and shit they face, what they do to support their families, and the things they've achieved with their sweat and blood and lives, probably expecting women to understand their sacrifices and give them validation and maybe even sex like the great empathetic beings we think they are.

Some messages about how men are fathers, brothers, and husbands and any role that purely exists relative to others in terms of utility. And how they can be better providers at said roles in getting other people's needs met at the cost of their own.

Not one, not ONE image of a guy who lifts and looks healthy. Forget mentally healthy guys.

Not a single link to anything that actually tells you what you need to do about solving these issues.

Nothing, not one thing, about the athletes, the geniuses, the musicians, the artists, the builders, the talented, the skilled, the sportsmen, the mentally strong, the warriors, the wise, the masters, the heroes, the lovers, the sages, the scientists, the problem solvers, the engineers, the enterpreneurs, the inventors, the garbage cleaners -- not even the men who've made a lot of money !!

Ok, one or two quotes from the great men of the past who actually talked about challenges, grit, strength, character, respect, wisdom and greatness, none of whom exist today. Even if they did they probably couldn't get past the outrage disease. Somewhere down the list, somewhere buried under the haystack.

NOTHING about an attractive man and his qualities, duh, it might just expose the truth. Seriously, I just realized virtually everything that's wrong with the human race in this one search.

All of this shows you just one thing - society is so fucked they have no fucking clue what a man or masculinity is, or are in denial. They can't give it to you. Masculinity is a gift we learn the hard way, give it to ourselves and show the world where it is.

If we don't, someone else will set the frame for us, and that will be our prison.

Society's image of a man is all about his utility value and his issues these days. In those days when we spoke of men, we looked at the greatest of our kind - older, wiser, who walked the path, who were respected. We still did until recently, until social media was invented. After that it even became fashionable and the norm to depict the hero as the guy with the biggest issues rather than the most awesome character in the show.

Guys, this world ain't going to see us as anything but a problem or a utility, but only as long as we let them, and act as living proof of their assumptions.

And honestly, no place out there except here now has all the stuff you need to know that will help you become this man you are meant to become. But it's your responsibility to put it all to work. No one can do that for you.

So on International Men's day, let me give you guys something that will actually prove useful to you in your journey to becoming the proud man you are supposed to be (it's where we all start) :
https://legionathletics.com/how-to-build-a-workout-routine/

https://legionathletics.com/build-muscle-lose-fat/

https://legionathletics.com/how-to-increase-testosterone/ - The point is not all those supplements he wants to sell at the end, it's the workout advice - it's seriously legit. You can get his books, I made real gains for the first time in my life and I thought I had shitty genes before that.

Every book on the sidebars you need are cheap on amazon and free to download on library genesis. Any book by a Navy seal or a sportsman who pushed themselves past their limits to get where they are will be inspirational for the mind. It's time to work.

If people actually gave men real stuff that could help them in their lives, these so called men's days would actually be something of worth, rather than the retarded, lip service, make things worse hogwash they turn out to be.

PS : And before you rush in to comment on what you think a man should be and make a to-do list on what is probably your first comment on the sub, I hope you've spent the time reading the sidebars of this and mrp, at least getting your ass to start exercising and have done the work enough to get it, at least gained some success at gaming and frame, got out of validation addiction, have standards for yourself, and have started figuring out what you need to be and how to get there.