What About Men?

It was early. We’d just dialed in the grunt and groans for the hill climbs. Wednesday’s is hills with the TripleShots Pre-Dawn Coffee Destination Cycling Club. We start at 6 a.m.

The club may have started out drinking triple shots, but these days we're down to Americanos. There’s a few of us. Today a couple for coffee. Women that is. It’s predominantly men that roll in the club. 
It was during the spreading out of the coffees when I first heard the grumbling.

“What about an International Men’s Day?”

I replied with “There should be.”

Honestly though, I’d never thought about that. Until I Googled it. Sure enough there is one! International Men's Day is on November 19^th. It’s been going just over ten years while International Women’s Day has been celebrated for 100 years.

Does this say the outspoken views of gender imbalance are coming together?

Men are different to women. Each of us do things differently. That's for sure.

Before my teens, my father worked hard and my mum stayed at home taking care of us kids and making sure there was always a beautiful romantic dinner every night for dear dad.

He was deserving.

Not like that today in most households. Women work. So do men. Maybe household chores are shared. Yet, is there time in life nowadays for the candlelight and wine?

What about taking care of the men?

Women’s Day and You

How is that men are viewed to be more powerful then women?

Why do men in most cases, get paid more then women?
When did it become OK for a man to hit a woman?
Who said a women’s work is never done?

What have we (women) become today and where are we going?

Does society bemoan the truth of the dictatorship. Who really rules the world? Is it a man or is it a woman?

It’s been said, behind every great man… there is a woman.

Yet, our mindset views an imbalance. Zapped through history, the women’s place has been in the home. Barefoot and pregnant.

In a conversation I had yesterday, my African man told me it was Women’s Day in Uganda. (Yes, they’re a day ahead of us.)

He said he would do all the cleaning and all the cooking for me. If I was there.

So that’s what’s expected of our inherited place in societies? That we be the ones responsible for the cooking and the cleaning. I suppose so. Maybe we do a better job? Or maybe we can handle more responsibilities.
In the results driven world of today. Who can accomplish more in one day? A man or a woman?

Today it’s International Women’s Day.

What does it mean to you?