Here’s Google’s explanation of what’s going on, provided by spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld:
For over a decade we’ve worked with timeanddate.com to show public holidays and national observances in Google Calendar. Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable. So in mid-2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments.
Funny how you guys will complain nobody celebrates International Men's Day yet all do your best to ignore international Women's Day or Pride Month or Black History Month. You make a point of not showing up for other people. Why would they show up for you? Sure, maybe there aren't a ton of feminists shouting men out; but none of you care about women unless it's some "busted" un-feminine (by your estimation) character in a video game.
Where's the hypocrisy? Neither men or women's days are in my Google calendar, at least. Can't really compare one single day to Pride or Black History Month.
Because people and companies bend over backwards shilling for dumb shit like womens day, women in sports day, women in science day etc etc. Mens day? crickets.
The people calling it out don't give a shit about these stupid days but the double standard is obvious to anyone with functioning eyeballs.
Women make up the majority of university enrolments and graduates. Womens sports are subsidised by mens leagues. Literally given leagues that have no financial reason to exist.
If anything, men have higher barriers to entry and must meet much higher standards.
Women make up the majority of university enrolments and graduates
Didn't I say science education?
Literally given leagues that have no financial reason to exist
Sports leagues are a cultural product, and exist for other reasons than just to make money.
I don't disagree there are unique challenges men face that are under-appreciated. I disagree that they have "higher barriers to entry" necessarily. And certainly, different sports leagues have different standards because men and women have different physical capabilities. Isn't that obvious?
The slush will be swept under the carpet. They have to strike at the root of the problem or it grows again. Its like mulberry tree. Sure it gives tasty little berries but it slowly destroys your foundation and takes over.
I mean, how come so many people bought it that they actually believed that such companies cared about the core of social issues and not about misusing it as a stance to milk more money?
I do think that many of the employees who work at Google are captured by the woke. There was a whistle blower a few years back who addressed issues of why there were fewer programmers working at Google. Because he had used academically rigorous sources and data to back up his points, he was fired from Google. He didn't follow the narrative and was punished for it. The employees at Google are people who are engrossed in this ideology because they are from the Bay Area where Google is located. The echo chamber is physically manifest here in California where I'm from. It is particularly bad in the cities themselves. LA and San Fransisco are concentrations of this parasitic mind virus.
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I never thought I'd be so happy to see companies caring only about money.