Men are celebrated, elevated and awarded every day of the week on every day of the year. Being a man is its own reward. You hit the jackpot when you are born a boy child. Yes within your group things are tough for all sorts of reasons. None of them are because you are a man. You might be a poor man, a sick man, a marginalised minority ethnic man. Brother, I'm with you. I'll carry your banner, sing your song of freedom, I'll even carry your coats and make the sandwiches.

To me equality is about equality for all regardless of gender,age, race, religion, sexuality and so forth. If IMD to be dropped, drop every other day as well.

Now when I left full time work to become a stay at home dad to look after my child and so we can have a second one. I got ridiculed because I a man and I shouldn't do that!!. So yes men can have problems if they do something just because they are a man. To be fair I wouldn't want you to carry my banner or make my sandwiches (I'm capable of making myself very good sandwiches thank you) because you have decided to just shit on me from a height because I happen to be a man.

I want to commend Philip Davies for changing the thrust of the debate from an international men's day event to a debate about the significant and important issue of male suicide. It is a subject that deserves debate all by itself without being hitched to the idea of men's day.

If anything I would think that's a ideal time to bring it, I'm sure if there was a high female suicide rate, it be brought up on IWD. Plus any other issues effecting women at the time, and I would say fair play as such a day should be used to celebrate and reflect on the difficulties faced by the focus of that day. But for some reason because men have won some sort of jackpot, we shouldn't be allowed a day to do such things. So Jess should we also drop father's day as well. After all that must be double jackpot or is triple jackpot if one of the children happen to be a boy.

Seriously. I have a boy and a girl and I can tell you where the genderising sterotypical bullshit has come from within the family. The women. My daughter like purple, likes to play with lego (just normal lego not the girly cash in stuff lego released recently) and cars. Yet the pink stuff, the dolls that pee and tea sets and other "girly" stuff have come from the women, even though it been explained no pink and that she likes these things. She is constantly brought "girly" stuff.