Mother's Day Banned At Welsh School

[Rodozashtitnik]

That's interesting. Well, in my country there is not such thing as a fathers' day. Apparently, the feminist movement is stronger here then I thought.
Or maybe it's just commies' act.

[Menydh]

How you see Mother's Day in Bulgaria is strange, to say the least.

Here, feminists see it as a sign of a male-dominated society because it honours women as mothers, not as macho wannabees.

Likewise, Father's Day honours men as fathers, not as a means of production. So it is hardly a Communist thing.

Mother's Day goes back to ancient Greece and Rome, and to the cult of the Mother goddess. In Christianity, or more precisely in the Catholic Church, it was inherited to honour Mary on December 8th (Immaculate Conception?).

[Rodozashtitnik]

It's a communist thing, because the mother's day started to fete when they came in power, not before that. And it was feted like the "day of our women workers". So, yeah, it's a communist thing, at least in my country.

[Rodozashtitnik]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Mother's Day goes back to ancient Greece and Rome, and to the cult of the Mother goddess. In Christianity, or more precisely in the Catholic Church, it was inherited to honour Mary on December 8th (Immaculate Conception?).

That's a feminist thing too. Virgin Mary is the mother of Christ, but she is not God, so we cannot put her on the same level.

[Menydh]

Mother's Day and Women Worker's Day are two different (and opposed) things.

[Arthur Gordon Pym]

Originally Posted by Rodozashtitnik

That's interesting. Well, in my country there is not such thing as a fathers' day. Apparently, the feminist movement is stronger here then I thought.
Or maybe it's just commies' act.

I think, Rodozashtitnik, you are here confusing two different things. There is the so-called Women's Day that was (is still?) celebrated in Communist countries. I remember we celebrated this day every year, during Communism. It fell on the March 8. It is a clearly Communist invention, I think it was a holiday in honour of a German Communist activist Klara Zetkin, who championed the cause of the "liberation of women" in the first half of the 20th century.

After 1990, when Communist-Masonic Yugoslavia vanished and independent Croatia started to adopt more traditional values (at least on paper), Women's Day was abolished in favour of the Mothers' Day, which, as Mynydd says, has an ancient tradition. It falls on May 11.

[Rodozashtitnik]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Mother's Day and Women Worker's Day are two different (and opposed) things.

In Bulgaria they are not.

[Rodozashtitnik]

Originally Posted by prometheus

I remember we celebrated this day every year, during Communism. It fell on the March 8. It is a clearly Communist invention

Yeah, i talk about the same thing.

[Susi]

I don't think it is a feminist holiday at all... and I think it is a good excuse to give one's mother flowers and chocolates and take her place for a day doing the cooking and cleaning (though I do that most days anyways...).

It makes the mother feel good that she has children and that they appreciate her. I don't see how making a woman feel good is feminist.

[Milesian]

If mothers (and fathers) were given the honour and respect due to them, there might be more incentive for young people to become good parents themselves.
As it is, our society (via the media cesspool) prefers to glamourise the whores, junkies, cads and mentally insane of this world.

Mother's Day is a nice idea, but really it gives people an excuse to take them for granted for the rest of the year. Every day should be Mother's Day.
As Mr T once said - "Respect your mother, there is no other!"

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