I am tired of having so many important issues raised on this page, waved away and disregarded as ‘political opinions’. Really? Men making up three in four suicides isn’t a political opinion, it is simply a fact. Men dying at higher rates in every age group, is not a political opinion, it is also a fact. Men making up one third of abuse survivors, and nine in ten homeless deaths, or the fact that boys have fallen behind girls in western education, for three decades, are not ‘political opinions’ either. They are all facts. And whether you pick them up, or throw them away, they will remain facts, that are each the product of decades of experience, from the world’s leading experts – Straus, Gelles, Curnock-Cook, Neese, Dutton, Steinmetz, Stemple, and the many other diligent researchers whose work I cite, are not politicians or activists, they are researchers, and some of the very best in history. Similarly, the Centers for Disease Control, the Office for National Statistics, or the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, are not political bodies, but governmental organisations who simply collect and publish data. Data. That’s it. It is not red or blue, left or right, data doesn’t care who you are. I understand a lot of the content here will lead to discomfort; no doubt some of the info I share can be upsetting, unpopular, and very *uncool* – but remember unpopular doesn’t mean ‘wrong’. So how do we deal with the problem that so many of us wear ‘trendy’ political opinions to primarily look good, regardless of whether they meet objective factual truth. What happens when such virtue signals lead to increasingly immovable opinions; and the stubborn refusal to simply look at what is beneath your nose… And what is beneath your nose are facts. What do you think? ~ Sources ONS Straus UCAS UCAS [2] Mary Curnock Cook CDC Images by Codioful, Kelly Sikkema, and Christa Dodoo

2023-08-01