The Off Topic Topic

[Tamas]

Seems like it's starting to pick up some steam in the US, at least on social media.

Is it entirely political in nature? I am slightly baffled how in Hungary (and apparently Poland) it is basically exclusively a variation to Mother's Day except you kind of celebrate all women, while in the west it is more a political thing. Says a lot about these societies as well, I guess.

[celedhring]

Seems like it's starting to pick up some steam in the US, at least on social media.

Is it entirely political in nature? I am slightly baffled how in Hungary (and apparently Poland) it is basically exclusively a variation to Mother's Day except you kind of celebrate all women, while in the west it is more a political thing. Says a lot about these societies as well, I guess.

I thought IWD was big in the Soviet bloc, even if just for propaganda purposes.

Over here it's always been political, although in current times it really wasn't much of a big deal until very recently. It was pretty big in the 1920s-30s, though, the dictatorship then put a lid on that.

[derspiess]

Is it entirely political in nature?

Seems like it to me. 

I am slightly baffled how in Hungary (and apparently Poland) it is basically exclusively a variation to Mother's Day except you kind of celebrate all women,

That's how it seems to be celebrated in Argentina as well.  I had never heard of IWD until I visited Argentina. 

[crazy canuck]

Seems like it's starting to pick up some steam in the US, at least on social media.

Is it entirely political in nature? I am slightly baffled how in Hungary (and apparently Poland) it is basically exclusively a variation to Mother's Day except you kind of celebrate all women, while in the west it is more a political thing. Says a lot about these societies as well, I guess.

That is an interesting observation.  This day was picked in part because of its communist roots commemorating the anniversary of a protest by Women in Russia in 1917.  I wonder how it was transformed in former communist states to be something akin to Mother's Day.

[Josquius]

This graph is so millennial



Though its about to go down

[Jacob]

Seems like it's starting to pick up some steam in the US, at least on social media.

Yeah same here.

I recall International Women's day being a thing when I was growing up in Denmark in the 70s and 80s, with a fairly radical/ leftist/ feminist slant to it. After moving to Canada it's never been a thing that came up, until this year where there were some events both at my work and my wife's work.

[celedhring]

Well, the marches have ended up being huge over here. Fantastic atmosphere too, very positive.

[dps]

I had never heard of IWD until I visited Argentina. 

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I'm not sure I'd heard of it before last week.

[Valmy]

Yeah I had only heard about it in the past connected to the February Revolution.

[jimmy olsen]

My wife mentioned it Wednesday and sai when she was in school the boys got her flowers on that.


Duly noted, I got a rose and a cheescake on my way back from work yesterday.

[Grey Fox]

My wife told me about my lack of acknowledgement of it & that her boss was judging me.

I told her it's not mothers day or Valentine. It's a day of affirmative action for women to demand/claim for a equal treatment in all sphere of society not another of those marketing days that reminds them that their place is to be cute.

[Admiral Yi]

My wife told me about my lack of acknowledgement of it & that her boss was judging me.

I told her it's not mothers day or Valentine. It's a day of affirmative action for women to demand/claim for a equal treatment in all sphere of society not another of those marketing days that reminds them that their place is to be cute.

She's a wife?  I thought you were just shacking up Quebec style.

[Eddie Teach]

Common law wife?

[Oexmelin]

No Common Law in Québec

[Grey Fox]

My wife told me about my lack of acknowledgement of it & that her boss was judging me.

I told her it's not mothers day or Valentine. It's a day of affirmative action for women to demand/claim for a equal treatment in all sphere of society not another of those marketing days that reminds them that their place is to be cute.

She's a wife?  I thought you were just shacking up Quebec style.

She has a ring but we haven't had the wedding yet.