Happy International Men's Day!

TheTinMenBlog · 2022-11-19T12:32:31+00:00

It’s arrived. To some it is International Toilet Day, for others ‘every day is mens day!’ But not here. Here #InternationalMensDay matters.

But I’m not going to spend it showing you dour graphs of boys failing education, or combing over data on men’s abysmal life expectancy.

The pie charts and diagrams of male suicide, homelessness, incarceration and domestic abuse can wait until tomorrow.

Today I want to ask – who are men to you?

I don’t get to decide, even if I knew, which I don’t.

So perhaps we can learn more by looking back at the best and bravest of us?

The kindest and cleverest. The most generous, most gallant and grateful.

The heroes and the heretics, the innovators and iconoclasts.

The men who for a hundred years did wonderful things for humanity, despite what the screaming mob might tell you.

So too, today, I wanted to share a poem that’s always been close to my heart, which I think summarises just a small corner of what I think men are.

The rest I leave to you, to fill in the blanks of the infinite masterpiece of men.

So who are men to you?

~

Images from r/histloryporn and r/menaregood

hshsgdve · 2022-11-19T13:26:46+00:00

A strict Chinese parent has lower standards for their only son than this poem 😅

AvoidPinkHairHippos · 2022-11-19T14:27:02+00:00

Big thank you to men like OP for providing easily sharable content and threads for people like me

Over the years I've come to really refine the many ways I promote egalitarianism .to combat supremacist movements, by demonstrating the many examples of double standards vs 50/50 equality. Occasionally I can see success with other subs and Redditors.

So thank you.

matrixislife · 2022-11-19T14:41:51+00:00

A lovely poem encouraging us all to strive the hardest, but it sets hellish high standards.

AffableBarkeep · 2022-11-19T16:21:39+00:00

Happy international men's day, ~~kings~~ non-hierarchical persons!

NimishApte · 2022-11-19T16:57:30+00:00

Speaking of Jonas Silk, we should remember people like Frederick Banting, JJR MacLeod, Charles Best, James Collip who discovered artificial insulin and patented it for $1.

In fact, they were a completely dysfunctional team and were only united in the fact, that they wanted insulin to be their gift to mankind.

TheDave101 · 2022-11-19T17:54:18+00:00

Thank you Tinmen. It's refreshing to be aknowledged sometimes.

NoFapGymColdShowers · 2022-11-19T18:19:04+00:00

Crazy i have to get this news through this post and not google

omegaphallic · 2022-11-20T00:02:41+00:00

Happy International Men's Day.

UnHope20 · 2022-11-19T19:49:30+00:00

That slide 4/10 though.... Powerful stuff.

ARBRangerBeans · 2022-11-20T02:39:03+00:00

Amazing poem to invoke powerful and insurmountable messages about the celebration to keep us determined and striving through hard times.

huysocialzone · 2022-11-20T15:03:11+00:00

Happy International Men's Day!

Ironicially though,I wouldnt have khown this day even exist if the girls in my class didnt host a celebration lol.

account_name4 · 2022-11-19T17:09:28+00:00

Rudyard Kipling was a racist colonialist bastard so idk how I feel about the inclusion of his poem

beeen_there · 2022-11-19T19:27:19+00:00

International mens' day - what a crock of shit.

While hypercapitalism makes slaves of men. While faux-feminism makes dads disposable. While nations make corpses of soldiers. While society makes morons of men.

But we got a day eh, so that's ok

fuck off

International_Crew89 · 2022-11-26T02:06:24+00:00

Off topic, but has anyone noticed our sub no longer appears on google searches? Apologies - I wanted to create a post about this (but for some reason can't - lack of app maybe?)

Title	Happy International Men's Day!
Author	TheTinMenBlog
Upvotes	261
Comments	25
Date	November 19, 2022 12:32 PM UTC (3 years ago)
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