You know public consciousness about assaults on men’s and boys’ human rights is growing inexorably when a female journalist at the left-leaning Guardian writes a sympathetic piece. A few days ago the paper published an article by Mona Chalabi (link at the base of this post). The piece starts off with a silly nod to the paper’s left-leaning readers (below):
It’s difficult to deny that women suffer more than men as a result of their gender…
Er, no, Mona, it’s not difficult. In fact it’s really easy. But thereafter her piece gets interesting, even if she attributes the high male suicide rate only to mental health issues, and ignores the state’s poor (sometimes non-existent) support for men in crisis, e.g. men who are homeless, or victims of domestic abuse… But overall it’s a sound piece, and I commend the Guardian for publishing it. Now that’s not something I do often…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/may/07/men-gender-divide-feminism
