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This is the busiest man on Twitter on International Women's Day

He painstakingly replies to every person who asks when International Men's Day is.

Gianluca Mezzofiore

on March 8, 2017

This is the busiest man on Twitter on International Women's Day

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ABIR ABDULLAH/EPA/REX/Shutterstock (8479706b) Garment workers and leaders shout slogans as they attend a rally during the celebrations of the International Women's Day organized by the Sommilito Garments Sromik Federation in Dhaka, Bangladesh 08 March 2017. Demonstrators demanded equal rights for women in the work place, with safety and fair salary. International Women's Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh - 08 Mar 2017 Credit: ABDULLAH/EPA/REX/Shutterstock

Like every year, it's International Women's Day, and like every year, outraged men waste their time on social media ranting that having a day dedicated to women is "sexist."

But fear you not, feminist reader.

There's a British comedian who, for the past few years, has been spending the whole of International Women's Day painstakingly replying to every person who asks when International Men's Day is.

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On March 8, Richard Herring wakes up early, logs on to Twitter, searches for the phrase "International Men's Day" and responds to them, one by one.

Reading his tweets is strangely mesmerising, an exercise in awareness of the massive inequality and sexism surrounding us. And for the record, International Men's Day is Nov. 19.

"I love the fact that the kind of cheese-helmets who feel the need to question the concept of International Women’s Day don’t even know there is already a day for men (an official one, rather than the regular days where they get more pay and power and privilege)," he wrote in the Guardian.

"I love it when people try to manufacture an injustice out of a position of clear superiority."