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In 2017 Australian academic Dr [[Red Ruby Scarlet]] proposed replacing [[Father's Day]] with [[Special Person's Day]]. Scarlet's proposal was met with widespread mockery |
In 2017 Australian academic Dr [[Red Ruby Scarlet]] proposed replacing [[Father's Day]] with [[Special Person's Day]]. Scarlet's proposal was met with widespread mockery amongst the Australian population. Major Australian supermarket [[Woolworths]] did briefly produce cakes for Special Person's Day.<ref>https://www.triplem.com.au/story/woolies-defend-their-delicious-special-persons-day-mud-cake-55298</ref><ref>https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/woolworths-special-persons-day-cake-sparks-shopper-outrage/news-story/bb99b77713fd7b65ca86f837dd2acf1c</ref><ref>https://archive.ph/5FGU9</ref><ref>https://archive.ph/LNijD</ref> |
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A meme circulated widely online displays an image from the ''Star Wars'' movie ''The Empire Strikes Back'' with Darth Vader saying "No, I am your special person" to |
A [[meme]] circulated widely online displays an image from the ''Star Wars'' movie ''The Empire Strikes Back'' with Darth Vader saying "No, I am your special person" to Luke Skywalker.<ref>https://memegenerator.net/instance/80297132/darth-vader-confession-no-i-am-your-special-person-nooooooooo</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 07:38, 12 May 2026
In 2017 Australian academic Dr Red Ruby Scarlet proposed replacing Father's Day with Special Person's Day. Scarlet's proposal was met with widespread mockery amongst the Australian population. Major Australian supermarket Woolworths did briefly produce cakes for Special Person's Day.[1][2][3][4]
In Popular Culture
A meme circulated widely online displays an image from the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back with Darth Vader saying "No, I am your special person" to Luke Skywalker.[5]
This is a parody of the widely known plot point that Darth Vader is in fact the father of Luke Skywalker.
See Also
Misandry
Misandry is the hatred of, pathological aversion to, or prejudice against men.[6] The first recorded use of the term dates from the 19th century.[7] At the present time misandry is widespread in Western society but may be in decline.
These days it seems you don't need to look far to see negativity focused at men. What is often known as casual misandry permeates western civilisation where many men and women commonly make negative statements about men without apparently regarding this as a problem or being challenged by anyone else present. This problem has steadily deteriorated and we have now reached the point that books with titles such as Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide[8] and The End of Men[9] can be published without significant objection from the wider community.
Negative and inaccurate portrayals of men and boys have permeated mainstream media and online knowledge repositories such as Wikipedia, where the bias is particularly evident. Wikipedia editors routinely write negative commentaries about men and Wikipedia admins protect those commentaries while censoring counter-narratives that might show less biased, more accurate information. This practice is reinforced by feminist editing gangs who congregate in regular 'edit-a-thons'[10][11][12] with the sole purpose of increasing feminist ideology within Wikipedia articles, and to censor male-positive discourse and research on men. In a nutshell those in control of Wikipedia have succeeded in deplatforming much reliable information about men and boys.
References
- ↑ https://www.triplem.com.au/story/woolies-defend-their-delicious-special-persons-day-mud-cake-55298
- ↑ https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/woolworths-special-persons-day-cake-sparks-shopper-outrage/news-story/bb99b77713fd7b65ca86f837dd2acf1c
- ↑ https://archive.ph/5FGU9
- ↑ https://archive.ph/LNijD
- ↑ https://memegenerator.net/instance/80297132/darth-vader-confession-no-i-am-your-special-person-nooooooooo
- ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misandry
- ↑ http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/boys-men/201403/why-is-discussion-boys-and-men-opposed
- ↑ Maureen Dowd., Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide, Berkley (2006)
- ↑ Hanna Rosin., The End Of Men Riverhead Books (2012)
- ↑ Katherine Timpf., ‘Storming Wikipedia’: Colleges offer credit to students who enter ‘feminist thinking’ into Wikipedia. Campus Reform (2013)
- ↑ Wikistorming: Colleges offer credit to inject feminism into Wikipedia. Fox News (2013)
- ↑ https://magenta.as/this-is-what-happens-at-a-feminist-edit-a-thon-for-wikipedia-15baea4ac8cd