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It actually is a thing in other countries...one year at work, the Russian interpreter and the Bosnian interpreter, who were both men, got us pizza. We never got anything from our American male bosses.

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5 minutes ago, mthor said:

It actually is a thing in other countries...one year at work, the Russian interpreter and the Bosnian interpreter, who were both men, got us pizza. We never got anything from our American male bosses.

Yah my boss just sent us facts abt women and did zilch else

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7 minutes ago, fuggstop said:

Yah my boss just sent us facts abt women and did zilch else

Well, to be fair, both of the interpreters were native speakers who'd immigrated as adults. It's apparently a big deal in eastern Europe, and they were used to celebrating it.

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1 hour ago, mthor said:

Well, to be fair, both of the interpreters were native speakers who'd immigrated as adults. It's apparently a big deal in eastern Europe, and they were used to celebrating it.

I gotta check out these celebrations 

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Interestingly enough, the genesis of this was an event put on by American Socialists in 1909, and subsequently adopted and propagated by International Socialists before being codified in Soviet Russia following the suffrage movement there.  It seems less fair to call this a celebration and more of a day of awareness about the structural inequalities that women persistently endure.

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21 minutes ago, fuggstop said:

Wrong

I love Boo, neko, poof, pooh,mthor, garbagepailcat, and many many other women 

What about stillme?

Katt

Mex

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39 minutes ago, fuggstop said:

Wrong

I love Boo, neko, poof, pooh,mthor, garbagepailcat, and many many other women 

Oh look, it is the equivalence of saying "I have a black friend."

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8 minutes ago, Greeny said:

I bought my wife new pots and pans to commemorate. 

I see nothing wrong with this. Even tho she might not be banging u for awhile

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1 hour ago, scoobdog said:

Interestingly enough, the genesis of this was an event put on by American Socialists in 1909, and subsequently adopted and propagated by International Socialists before being codified in Soviet Russia following the suffrage movement there.  It seems less fair to call this a celebration and more of a day of awareness about the structural inequalities that women persistently endure.

True. It probably would have been more accurate to say that they were used to observing it.

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3 minutes ago, mthor said:

True. It probably would have been more accurate to say that they were used to observing it.

The irony is that such an important day was codified by a government for reasons both subversive and likely with little to do with the women it was celebrating.  Nonetheless, in an age where women are increasingly being heard and the uncomfortable truth they speak being recognized (if perhaps not willingly), the socialist origins of the day resonate even more now than they did 110 years ago.

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40 minutes ago, midnight said:

Misaka, don't shut up.

 

25 minutes ago, discolemonade said:

please. stop. now. 

Well which is it now? 

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