One of my great frustrations, is how readily the world diminishes sexism against men down to some kind of trivial inconveniences, or low-level frustrations. As if the issues that impact men and boys are confined to the inability to wear certain floral patterns. Or having to open doors for women, being subjected to silly jibes online, or having to give up our so-called ‘male privileges’, after millennia on easy street. “Misogyny kills, misandry irritates”, I so often hear. Sexism against women is “structural and systemic.” Whilst sexism against men is “individual behavior”; bad vibes, or naughty words that might surely hurt mens feelings, but nothing more than that. But as you’ll know, such black and white concepts of sexism, are simply wrong. Because, yes, sexism against men can absolutely be systemic too. When boys are found to be graded lower than girls of equal ability, that is systemic sexism. If a man is sentenced more harshly than a woman of similar criminal background, yup, that’s systemic sexism too. Being erased as a victim of abuse by academia, and even the law, by virtue of your genitalia; or being excluded from life saving services; or receiving your state pension later; or having to sign your body away to the military draft, all of that, is systemic sexism. When you have worse health and education, by every metric, and have for decades, but there’s no Government initiative to help you, then what else do you call that? Whilst the fact that I, right now, can buy a circumcision kit from Amazon, and perform surgery on a baby boy, with no medical training, oversight, accreditation, safeguarding, or consent, and face no legal repercussions whatsoever, then yes, that is systemic sexism. The list goes on, and on, and on. So why do those who are too lazy to educate themselves on the true nature of sexism against men and boys, speak so snuggly, and wrongly about it? Because yes, sexism against men, just like women, can be (and is) systemic too. So let’s talk about it… What do you think?

2026-02-05