Happy International Men’s Day, everyone!!!
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Yes, happy International Men’s Day !!
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Indeed. The “six pillars” are a good guide to the issues. All too often “gender equality” is taken to mean privileges for women (as exasperates Philip Davies). As we have seen in education and employment all too often this becomes direct (and in the UK illegal) discrimination against males. The Family courts are notorious for their privileging of women both against men but also children. And public services routinely are slow to respond, or ignore, the needs of males despite their mandate to serve. Hence the focus here on the unmet health and welfare needs of males.
One pillar I’d like to highlight is celebration of the positive contributions of men to our society. In a supposedly “post industrial” consumer society it seems easy to forget that it is still the case that not only did and do men literally build and maintain our complex society but when rescue is needed it is men saving people, getting the power back on, the water back, the ships in port the supplies through and generally getting our lives back on track.
A day to celebrate as well as contemplate the mountains still to climb for boys and men to achieve legal “gender equality” let alone the same care and consideration.
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Thanks Nigel, very good!
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To you too, Mike!! I hope everything is good with you, my friend! Bravo to all your tireless and devoted work!!!
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Thanks Chris!
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Another example of the need for a “minister” for men. Like “rough sleeping” men are disadvantaged by services being designed for “vulnerable” (which always includes female ) people and effectively ignoring males specific needs. Though not a complete answer to this growing problem mainly effecting men it would help if our social care for older people services were not completely designed around old women. In a way this reflected the fact that men used to die pretty much just after retirement thus those living into old age were overwhelmingly women (and of course they also were using services from age 60) so there were few older men. But this has changed with men, fortunately living beyond retirement. A decade ago Age Concern (as it was then) did work on this as a key growing problem. Of course nothing was done about how statutary services target their attention nor on trying to make services “male friendly”. Just like homelessness services men are literally left out. Of course services can’t fill every gap by our “broken society” but they could do a lot more https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12776125/Alarming-17-fold-spike-number-Brits-left-undiscovered-dying-home-Experts-blame-massive-rise-societal-breakdown.
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