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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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DarlingSelah ·

This is the first time ive ever seen a post like this. Id like to hear mens response as to why they dont care abput mens issues. Im honestly curious. Women discuss, & address womens issues all the time...

SW-User

@DarlingSelah I think some men have never even thought to frame these things as "men's issues". They may think these are individual problems and not see the patterns.

canusernamebemyusername · M

@DarlingSelah Toxic masculinity for one. We are expected to be dumb brutes that don't have feelings.
When I was going through depression and would sometimes end up crying I was told by "feminists" to man up and that one of them hated blubbering men. So that is another reason. It becomes a fight between the sexes over who gets attention. Like my niece complains about how easy mean have it and I try to tell her the inverse but she doesn't take me serious. Each side ends up belittling the other.
Also there is stigma in general for many things like mental health or substance abuse or rape regardless of gender. Things don't get talked about. And if you are male you aren't allowed to. Cause that isn't manly. So back to toxic masculinity.
This is my guy response.