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Justice for Men & Boys 
I hope the ICMI will be able to unify MRAs around these key issues. Education, Health, Work and family breakdown seem to me to be the ones that are experienced by the most boys and men and where there is the widest general acceptance, even amongst some feminists, that the data is solid. And these also encompass some of the other of the 12, as Conscription, forced labour and child labour are all a part of the double standards and general discrimination against boys and men in Work overall. While the most egregious injustices in the area of family breakdown are driven by the “gendered” ideology of domestic abuse and violence. While on almost every index of mental and physical health from suicides, to cancer outcomes, to access to screening or even access to health care per se; boys are worse off, contributing to that shorter life span.
For me the key thing is getting significant numbers of boys and men and indeed the women who love them to see that their individual experience is not isolated but a part of a pattern that applies widely. In every survey I’ve seen the general population’s idea of “equality” is equal opportunity and equal treatment, not the pattern of privileges and special treatment peddled by the PC/Woke/feminists. I think from survey data the biggest issue to address is the widely held presumption that it is the former common sense understanding that prevails; and where this doesn’t this is somehow outside the norm. Yet of course the reality is that this is not the case and in the 4 big areas above the inequality in opportunity and treatment is systematic and deliberate.
I suspect that the growing “gender divide” between young men and young women on equality paradoxically reflects the reality that young men are far more exposed to feminism and therefore focus on a “gendered analysis” and in doing so become more aware of the links between their own experiences and a systemic discrimination against them. By revealing itself widely (rather than staying with Universities and corridors of power) in a way feminism sows the seeds of its own opposition.
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