Failing to redress the issues facing young men will push them further towards the far right
in several areas there is now a reverse gender gap, with boys, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, struggling to keep up with girls
Do you think this is an important issue?
What a wild thing to publish on International Women’s Day. Almost like this “we don’t talk about young men” stuff the media is pushing isn’t about helping young men but telling women to shut up.
None of this is to deny the many inequalities faced by females in a patriarchal society.
“Faced by females”. There’s quite a bit of bioessentialism in this that attempts to essentially say violent men have no agency. Like I’m sorry, having a shitty childhood or high testosterone aren’t excuses. The culture shift needed to help young men is to treat them like people, capable of feeling the full range of human emotions, and part of being a person is being responsible for your actions.
Also, no amount of women capitulating to reactionary rhetoric is going to bring about a culture shift that young men don’t want, young men are just as responsible for making their lives better as everyone else. Yes, they need more support structures (we all do), but young men need to want to get better and I’m not sure a lot of them currently do.
These youths need a national jobs program, with training and then sent all over the country to repair and maintain the infrastructure of the country that is likely in disrepair.
Give people purpose and they might gain a drive to either do good at that job or do anything they can to get a better life outside of work.
As for the misogyny, make feminist pornography the only porn available at worksites. I don’t know, that one is a harder issue to fix.
Only commenting because I can’t down vote on my instance. This is repulsive MRA fluff from a consistently misogynistic writer. Nothing to add because its not worth platforming.
There’s an odd tendency amongst certain sections of society to immediately dismiss issues that other people are experiencing based on disgust at some of the people airing the issues. Just because someone unpalatable to you co-opts the issue doesn’t mean it’s a none-issue.
If we want to stop being surprised by things like Brexit and Donald Trump being elected then attempting to silence discussion like this above piece isn’t going to help.
Doesn’t need we need to listen and share disgusting people just because the issue they’re coopting actually somewhat real
Describing the content of that article as REPULSIVE is just deeply misandrist. Why is it seemingly impossible for people to care about more than one demographic at once.
That would be great if there was such a thing as misandry but there isn’t - at least on a wider societal scale where it has a constant day to day effect. Men’s liberation is absolutely a thing but this article functions more as whataboutism than anything else.
As an already clearly set boundary, I’m not going to explain to you why this is the case but I can point you in the right direction. I’m personally a fan of the work of Lee Shevek but if you are looking to learn through community osmosis, the aforementioned community is a good place to learn.
I wasn’t talking about on a societal level, I was talkling about you. I also don’t need a reading list on why you think you can be dismissive of men’s issues. The article is about a recently published report about issues facing boys and young men. There is no whataboutism as it isn’t in response to anything.
Wow. Making an account just to be a misogynist. Piss off back to Reddit. Misogynistic prick.
