# Who here celebrates March 8? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 5, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267 "2015-03-05T11:41:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/21 "2015-03-05T15:57:57Z")
I celebrated March 1st by wearing a leek on my lapel, got nothing planned for the 8th! ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/22 "2015-03-05T16:32:32Z")
Today is the day Stalin died and on the 25th anniversary I had a panic attack, which subsided a few years later after my father assured me Stalin’s death was cooler than Khomeini’s. We haven’t celebrated Franco’s death because it’s too soon to tell. ---
**Author:** ![hildea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ebca7d/32.png) [@hildea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hildea)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/23 "2015-03-05T16:42:08Z")
I was surprised the first time I heard of the International Women’s Day as a flowers-and-gifts day, from a Russian colleague. Here in Norway, it’s a day for political activism – an event in the city centre with political speeches and a march, with people carrying slogans. I’ve mostly degenerated to facebook activism myself, but I get out of the sofa to join political marches at least twice a year: 8th March and 1st May. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/24 "2015-03-05T17:26:29Z")
Had to look it up, but quite honestly now I know I doubt that i will be . ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/25 "2015-03-05T17:53:55Z")
Why would I want to celebrate losing a hour of sleep? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/26 "2015-03-05T17:59:00Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > No, but I do celebrate March 14th. with pie or steak? I prefer the latter celebration. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/27 "2015-03-05T17:59:46Z")
It’s my sister’s birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/28 "2015-03-05T18:50:11Z")
I celebrate the First of May every year. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/29 "2015-03-05T20:37:34Z")
Found out about it last year, from a Facebook friend in the Ukraine. Didn’t remember it was on March 8, though. ---
**Author:** ![AHarris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@AHarris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHarris)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/30 "2015-03-05T20:57:02Z")
Celebrate March 8? I thought that most dopers were more inclined to rant about Daylight Savings Time. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/31 "2015-03-05T21:36:07Z")
I knew that some of these holidays fall on different days in other places, but didn’t know this specific date. > [@tim314](#): > > No, but I do celebrate March 14th. Lebanon? ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/32 "2015-03-05T23:15:56Z")
Early March is weird. Do you beat your boy Friend? I had a nightmare and dreamed he was a goblin and whooped his butt and he was nice and just threw me out of the bed. Most times we don’t do that. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/33 "2015-03-05T23:58:39Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > We haven’t celebrated Franco’s death because it’s too soon to tell. Is he still dead? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/34 "2015-03-06T00:05:55Z")
> [@AHarris](#): > > Celebrate March 8? I thought that most dopers were more inclined to rant about Daylight Savings Time. And then correct you and tell you it’s actually daylight saving time. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/35 "2015-03-06T00:28:04Z")
Still no one wants to give out what this is? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/36 "2015-03-06T00:40:59Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > Still no one wants to give out what this is? Post #8. (Its International Women’s Day). ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/37 "2015-03-06T00:45:28Z")
I don’t. I had to look it up. I’d heard of it in passing before. Between two holidays on the 14th and St Patricks Day the holiday season is already full enough. ---
**Author:** ![chaika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chaika/32/405_2.png) [@chaika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaika)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/38 "2015-03-06T00:59:21Z")
We celebrate March 8th. My husband is Russian and it’s a big holiday in Russia. He usually gives me flowers. He also calls female relatives and close female (Russian) friends to wish them a happy day. We’re in the U.S. now, so most people don’t have a clue what March 8th is. But it is cause for much celebration in Russia. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/39 "2015-03-06T02:04:50Z")
It’s big in Vietnam too. When I lived there, they were often surprised to here it’s basically unknown in America, despite being called International Women’s Day. Now that I know of its existence, I do see it mentioned in the media here most years. Happy birthday, **scareyfaerie**! ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267/40 "2015-03-06T02:14:16Z")
Its a biggie in Mexico. Naturally. Here women rule. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-celebrates-march-8/714267.md?page=3)