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Do you think issues facing boys and men are put on the back burner?

I'm not advocating an Oppression Olympics between women and men and "who has it worse". I'm just saying that men's issues, from my experience, do not seem to be given the attention they are due. By "issues" I'm referring to the over-diagnosis of ADHD in young boys, the fact that boys perform worse than girls in school, absent fathers, divorce proceedings favoring women, suicide rate among men higher than that of women, etc.

Women's issues have received a lot of attention and that's fair, but I think it's important to recognize the unique societal problems that men and boys face.

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ViciDraco · 36-40, M

Both men's and women's issues are human issues. It is true that some genders face certain issues at higher rates. A lot of that is due to gender roles. It's not about being a boy or a girl. It's about what people expect out of you because you are a boy or a girl.

Many of these problems start going away if we make meaningful progress toward destroying the notion of gender roles. You don't fix all issues, but you get some big ones. It'd also help minor cases of gender dysphoria - particularly those where gender expression and gender placement in society are bigger aspects of a person's disconnect than their physical sex.

school performance I'm a little less concerned over as a men's issue. That's more of a parenting issue. Heck, they had the opposite problem just a couple decades ago.