Video / audio #424 from our archives: Martin Seager – gender differences, gender identity, democracy, radical leftism & therapy (pre ICMI20)
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Justice for Men & Boys 
I haven’t seen the Danny Dyer programme on “masculinity”, really because I expected the usual focus on dramatic extremes. However I have read a few reviews and this one from the Express does give some space to Martin Seager’s work as well as some others probably familiar to J4MB Danny Dyer on masculinity: ‘It isn’t toxic, it’s misunderstood’ | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV | Express.co.uk
What I find interesting is that there is at least little quibbling about the evidence of male disadvantage in a variety of areas of life J4MB reader will be familiar. Now of course the Guardian and Independent decide the causes boil down to “the Patriarchy” damaging males, particularly males of their favourite identity groups. While, other than deciding the causation isn’t “misandry” the more “conservative” on line press appear unable to identify a unified analysis. However overall there is a step forward from a decade ago where there would simply be denial that any of this data on disadvantages even existed.
Even where the writers identify “victim blaming” (in the case of Domestic Abuse or Homelessness) they still can’t, or don’t want to, join up the dots of what is linking so many of these areas of male disadvantage; a systematic application of overt and covert discrimination against males and for females.
For the very brave (and immensely patient) men and women who have worked so hard on this for years and years I hope they can summon the energy to keep joining up the dots. Specially for the young, who are increasingly seeing and experiencing the big “gap” between rhetoric about equality and the practical action; which is to discriminate to the detriment of boys and men.
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