It doesn’t matter how I see the holiday when in the end I will feel rejected because barely anyone knows and accepts my identity IRL.

As far as I’m concerned, every day is a feminism day.

I’m not from the eagle country either (though not in a better place) and by being quite close with my femme relatives I’ve seen this shit happen on many occasions.

It’s almost never polite, it’s never “well I think that would be better”. Oftentimes the “advice” is done with an insult, e.g. by comparing a woman to a prostitute.

Usually they’re just strangers who has no business telling her how she should dress. And yes, if it was a woman saying this it would still be equally bad. But it’s rarely a woman, 99% of the time it’s a man.

Yeah, the premise that all men must be ignored is bad but it’s the emotional response that often develops after yet another such an idiot opens his mouth.

Bigoted men often comment on women’s appearance.

“Too much makeup.” “Your skirt is too short.” “You should smile more.”

It goes without saying that the women they’re judging weren’t asking for their opinions.

Thinking about men’s opinions about me: I don’t care B)

Me when one (1) man insults me: ;-;

Of course, I don’t argue against that. I just wish people would be less intrusive with these holidays. Celebrations should be opt-in, not opt-out enforced on every work and study place!

Also, Wikipedia article describes a lot of cool stuff… that just isn’t really relevant to how it’s perceived here, in my experience. I have NEVER in my life seen anyone treating 8th March as even remotely connected to feminism. People just see it as the day when you bring flowers to cis women and tell them how beautiful they are and stuff.

I always learn when the Mother’s day is a day before the holiday, and I have no idea when the Father’s day is at all 😅

Like, parents have birthdays so I feel like these ones are kinda obsolete? Whatever, holidays are weird as hell!

They ran out of spell slots I see

I respect the holiday’s premise and honestly would love it but this is one of the national holidays and as such people are SO intense about it.

And I have never really seen anyone actually seeing feminism and liberation in this holiday. Hell, it’s the opposite, with all the stereotypes and misogyny!

But not all holidays are like this… there’s another one that literally celebrates men as ‘future soldiers’. I hate it so fucking much!

I mean like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women's_Day

It boils down to “one part of the binary celebrates another part of the binary”. You probably can see how it’s a problem for a closeted trans person.

Wild cats after some bipedal primates started feeding them for no reason

Every queer person count!

Done, where are my gay friends!