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It's International Women's Day today but hey, don't let that distract you from the real burning question here.

WHY IS THERE NO INTERNATIONAL MEN'S DAY?

Ignoring the inconvenient truth that every day is pretty much International Men's Day (see: wage gap, upskirt photography, mansplaining etc - and that's just the tip of the iceberg) there is in fact such an occasion.

So don't get your boxers/budgie smugglers in a twist, menfolk, because it's happening later this year on 19 November.

This irritating question dominates Twitter every year on 8 March. Luckily one man is actually doing more than his fair share to tackle it, and his efforts also help a very good cause.

Comedian Richard Herring is once again spending International Women’s Day answering this eternal question with some "polite trolling" and raising money for Refuge.

Here are some of his greatest hits so far this year...

Last year, he raised £150,000 for the charity and this year he is again asking his 225,000 followers on Twitter to support this act of "polite trolling" and raise more money for charity.

People can donate to the campaign here.

International Men’s Day has in fact been around since 1999, but has, alas, struggled to embed its way into the global consciousness in the same way as International Women’s Day.

Still, it's nothing a quick Google search can't sort out.

Since 2014, there have been just over 300,000 tweets about International Women’s Day which is almost ten times the number of tweets about International Men’s Day.

Last year, Herring’s Twitter followers raised over £150,000 for Refuge in support of his painstaking efforts to answer every single person asking this question on the social media platform. Herring has set up a GoFundMe page to raise money again this year.

Richard himself said in a statement: "Last year, I was overwhelmed by the response to this piece of 'polite trolling' and the amount of money raised, but having performed this service for the last few years, I'm assuming that everyone will know when International Men’s Day is by now (it’s November 19th by the way), so I'm hoping to have a relatively quiet day tomorrow, though I've been saying that for the last 5 years and it’s just got worse if anything."

Sandra Horley, chief executive at Refuge, said: "We are absolutely thrilled to have Richard’s ongoing commitment to raising awareness and money for Refuge on International Women’s Day.

"Every day, we support over 6,500 victims of domestic violence in the UK; an issue which affects one in four women in this country today and claims the lives of two women every week.

"The money raised last year helped us to continue to run our life-saving and life-changing services – and we very much hope that Richard will be able to raise significant funds for our essential services this year ."