Feminist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett says:

Why have an International Men’s Day? You might argue that global gender inequality means that every day is International Men’s Day, and, like Labour MP Jess Phillips, you’d certainly have a point.

The fact that Phillips’ opposition to the holding of an International Men’s Day debate in parliament resulted in her receiving violent threats of sexual abuse on social media simply adds credence to her argument.

As anyone following feminism will no doubt be aware, sexism against women is about much more than Dapper Laughs and Manspreading (though these obviously remain causes for grave concern).

Men dominate an overwhelming proportion of top positions in business, politics, and the media, while we still do the bulk of the childcare and domestic work. There’s the glass ceiling, the abysmal rape conviction rate, sexual harassment and catcalling - not to mention an advertising industry hell-bent on making us feel as insecure and inadequate as possible so that we buy more stuff and diet ourselves into submission.

And that’s just the start of it.

That a female politician can’t even highlight the gender disparity without a bunch of sexist cretins threatening to rape her speaks volumes about the male oppression of women.

But that doesn’t mean that men don’t suffer from gender-specific problems, too.

“Men are vulnerable - they suffer from gender pressure too. We need International Men's Day”