In recent years, in October, publications have appeared on the Internet in which men are congratulated on an unusual holiday. We checked whether he really exists.

In 2021, the international day of protection of the male nervous system from violent actions by women was told to their readers "Moscow Komsomolets", "Interfax - Ukraine", "RIA Novosti - Crimea", Ukrainian information portal UNIAN And several other media, and the Social Network "Odnoklassniki" even congratulated its users on the "holiday". In previous years, materials dedicated to this topic also appeared on sites "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Public television of Russia" and publicist Alexander Nevzorov. The memorable date is dedicated to numerous video on YouTube, as well as very popular posts in Facebook, "VKontakte", Twitter, "Yandex.Zen" and other social networks. International Day of Protection of the Male Nervous System from violent actions by women also Mentioned In Wikipedia.

Despite the international status attributed, about the day of protection of the male nervous system from violent acts from women, noted from the Russian -speaking Internet, noted on October 22. The only mention that we were able to find is a post on Reddit, published In 2018 in the MensRights community. At his beginning it is said that the text was borrowed from Tai Naydenko, the author Notes About this festival on the website Spletnik.ru. The day of protection of the male nervous system from violent actions by women is not mentioned in calendar Similar special dates that the UN established or recognized.

We discovered the earliest mention of the holiday in 2014. October 22 of that year about him wrote User of the site Drive2.ru, uniting motorists from different countries. The publication is a poem that begins with the words: "We are weak, we need to protect us, // from the inevitable nervous upheavals."

Apparently, the commemorative date gained real popularity a year later. Posts with identical text and picture on October 22, 2015 appeared in many large public On VKontakte, whose audience now has millions of users, on Pikabu and in Twitter. Then the publications dedicated to the holiday appeared on the site "Gambling", forums residents Nizhny Novgorod and motorists From Rostov-on-Don.

Although we could not unequivocally determine the ancestor of this unusual holiday, we can confidently say that he was invented in the Russian-language segment of the Internet in the mid-2010s (some They saythat the idea was launched as a joke). It has no official status and has not been recognized as large international organizations, and its international is a big question - practically nothing is known about the existence of this memorable date outside Russia and post -Soviet countries. For several years, the holiday invented in Runet was so fixed on the network that even rather large media began to mention it.