I saw the graphics of search interest about International Men's Day, and I looked it up myself on Google Trends.

RobDog101 · 2016-03-09T19:41:08+00:00

Even if the trend held true for all years, why shouldn't people search for IMD on IWD? It's perfectly reasonable to wonder why you never hear about IMD in the mainstream media or even on social media when you get bombarded with IWD news and feminist propaganda on March 8. That's not "making everything about men"; it's noticing that there's a day when everything's about women and wondering, "Isn't anything ever about men?"

JebberJabber · 2016-03-10T12:02:22+00:00

This thread shows we urgently need to improve our scholarship.

OP's current Google search graph was taken too early, before the March IMD search peak had finished. That made it look as if this year's peak was at the same height as previous years. In fact, due perhaps to the rapid growth of the MRM via Gamergate, there have already been FIVE TIMES as many searches for IMD around IWD. It may climb even higher by the end of March. This demolishes his point that our search behaviour has changed - it was only 2015 when the searches were equal at both times.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=international%20mens%20day

If someone published the two graphs side by side with the caption "Dishonesty or incompetence?" it would be embarrassing.

The reason the original graphic stops at 2014 is not a conspiracy to conceal the truth, it is that it was published in 2014.

The reason it has been circulating since then is because it is a brilliant illustration of how the MRM is more interested in reactionary whining about women and feminists doing stuff than in creating something good ourselves.

Here is the full 2014 article.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/people-only-care-international-mens-4655273

If the MRM can't even get taken seriously in a mass-circulation lowbrow news site with a generally anti-feminist position, we need to look at ourselves. I say their criticism is correct.

Complaining about the mainstream media not supporting IMD is pathetic. They want free material. If they are given articles that appeal to their readers they will publish them.

Social media is equally available to men. Women have long used it on IWD to send brief bio's of inspiring women, and to circulate writing about women. There is nothing stopping us from doing the same, or whatever else we want.

Leinadro · 2016-03-09T21:48:57+00:00

Nice catch.

Title	I saw the graphics of search interest about International Men's Day, and I looked it up myself on Google Trends.
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