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U.S. ambassador gives prime minister the cover he needs to cut Canada’s F-35 order
(ca.news.yahoo.com)
Fuck right off, misogynist, can’t even acknowledge the boot comes from above, no, got to “other” women instead
Men are the vast majority under that boot. Read the f**king article, ya dingus.
Across Canada, the number of missing and murdered Aboriginal men is almost 5× that of aboriginal women. And yet, where are the nation-wide initiatives to solve aboriginal men’s murders and disappearances?
Suicides of men are over 5× that of women. Yet where is the pearl-clutching over those deaths?
Homelessness is almost ¾ men. And yet, homeless shelters for only women outnumber those for only men, and men’s shelters frequently have to empty out completely if there is any overflow from women’s shelters at all.
Workplace deaths of men are more than 9× that of women. And headlines only occur when it is women who suffer.
Plus, of all the jobs that aren’t at parity between men and women, the only ones women ever clamour to target are those with air conditioning and great lumbar support. Where are all the female lumberjacks? Where are the female crabbers? The coal miners and oil rig workers and the framers and plumbers and roofers?
crickets
Yyyyyup. Thought so.
You look at pretty much any personal calamity except those which are purely gender-specific, and if men aren’t neck-and-neck with women, they’re nearly always the majority of victims.
And yet, it is only those solutions that address women which are not “misogynistic”. Hell, it took nearly 40 years for “men’s mental health month” to gain traction against exactly those accusations of misogyny.
So fuck right off back, you flaming gender bigot.
It has made me inordinately sensitive to systemic societal hypocrisies. Especially differences between how the genders are treated.
Like, yes, there are still a lot of issues with how women are treated that needs improvement. But holy hell, compare a serious problem that isn’t gender-specific - DV, homelessness, suicide, workplace deaths, even rape - and how that issue gets handled depending on the gender means the average man instantly becomes a second-class citizen behind any woman. Or worse - not even worth consideration in any capacity, despite men being either equally victimized or the majority of victims. Men are literally being treated as trash for the crime of having been born male.
And no, in general it’s not other men doing this to men. They are forced to look away and do nothing to help other men, or risk being accused of being “misogynists” themselves because helping male victims “takes resources/attention away from women in need”.
This is why, as one example, political support for so many men’s issues is absolutely radioactive and invariably terminates careers at the very next election. So nothing ever gets done, while the other side has help galore shovelled at them from all directions.
It’s why, despite fully supporting women’s rights, I call myself an egalitarianist. Because I am not a gender bigot. I fight for rights on both sides, because that is the dictionary definition of “equality”.