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Justice for Men & Boys 
I’ve linked to some similar reports from media in the UK, one about the poor young women of Ukraine unable to have a proper “prom”. Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of that war the relative ease of reporting the Ukraine situation is instructive about “gender roles” in a country having to deal with the realities of what is now a prolonged conflict. In some ways unlike some countries in WW2 the situation exposes the very different experiences of men and women, because literally millions of Ukrainian women have and can leave. Not really a possibility for British women (in such huge numbers) in WW2. As in this article this really does lay bare in reality some of the “thought experiments” such as “what if all the women went on strike” or indeed what if all the men did?
One bit that Better Bachelor doesn’t highlight caught my eye. A woman reports she had a relationship with a soldier. She says he ended it when he was wounded. His reason that she could find better than him “in Kyiv”. She says this break up caused her some pain. One of my father’s explanations for remaining single , which is not at all unique to him, was that as Aircrew in Bomber command (50% of whom died or were wounded) he “didn’t want to make a widow”. It struck me the huge contrast of the “empathy” of the Ukrainian and the many such men who care for women so much that they are aware their death or injury might well be emotionally upsetting to someone they care for. My father was a “family man” by nature so he put on hold his emotional “needs” for 10 years until his service was finished, retrained and found his love once he thought he wouldn’t leave a widow.
Though there are restrictions reporting from Ukraine is relatively free and various European media do. It is very interesting from many aspects, including sex roles, specially as the situation heightens everything. Quite possibly its similar in Russia too, but reporting is far more restricted there.
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