Why Doesn’t Google Celebrate International Men’s Day?

It's 363 days until international men's day 2025 and Google already has its doodle out

Google have been doing the Doodle for over 25 years now

The first Doodle was a simple out-of-office message,

But in the past 25 years Doodles have grown into a global phenomenon celebrating heroes, events, culture, places and so much more.

With over 5000 created this isn't something they do every now and then

Now if you 8th March on the Doodle search

You get this years international women's day going all the back to 2005

If you do the same for 19th November you get;

Cricket World Cup Final 2023

Malaysian National Elections 2022

Ofra Haza's 57th Birthday 2014

I think you get the point

When we strive for equality we forget that means everyone

I have done a number of posts on how I think the narrative around feminism for men and boys needs to change

But we can't forget men

We can't push them away

We need to bring them along

It’s not about taking anything away.

It’s about adding balance.

Celebrating everyone doesn’t mean celebrating some at the expense of others.

If equality is the goal, we can’t leave half the population behind.

International Men’s Day matters.

Not because it’s better or more important.

But because it’s part of the bigger picture.

So, maybe in 363 days, we’ll see that Doodle.

Here’s hoping.