Men are always the yard stick from which we measure women. Women’s health, women’s salary, women’s education, women’s life expectency, and happiness; you name it, one way or another, I am sure it’s been measured many times, against men. Such a thing makes sense. But when men and boys are reduced to a mere metric onto which to measure women, they are soon dehumanized and forgotten about; for nobody cares about the yard stick, only the thing it measures. This is the price men pay for being “the default human”. They are the sea of grey, within which bright, urgently colored dots are scattered. They are the slice of the pie chart hidden from view, or cropped out of the page; or secret data, tucked away in some anonymous appendix that nobody reads. It is in this wasteland that men and boys reside. A place I often go hunting, as I to drag them from the grey sludge, to bring them to life in more infographics than I can even remember. Because – We hear about the spectacular benefits men receive for being the world’s “default human”, but is it time we discussed the draw backs too? What do you think? ~ Bike deaths  Indigenous deaths  Iranian deaths 

2026-05-13