Men are a special kind of minority group; the only minority who are not called a “minority”, and secondly, the only minority who become one, due to dying at such disproportionately high rates. I mean, haven’t you wondered why there are more boys born than girls, yet more women alive than men? Well, sadly, the answer is obvious: men and boys die. They die more in every racial and socioeconomic group, across every age, and within every country in the world, both developed or developing. They die so much, that our demographic tectonics shift under such a huge loss, and in so doing, the male sex becomes an ‘artificial’ minority. Yes the truth is lads, I’m sorry, there’s just a lot less sand in your hour glass. So men die young and in silence. Their premature deaths the ugly, inconvenient, universal truth, hastily swept under the societal rug. Countless millions of years of male life needlessly extinguished, to nothing but a chorus of scoffs and sneers, as society rolls its eyes, and with absolutely no sense of irony, suggests these men are “privileged”, and that if anyone’s health deserves special attention, it is surely *not* theirs. The tragic irony, is that ‘the male sex’ is now the single biggest demographic factor predicting early death, and yet it belongs to a group for whom it is still wildly unpopular to advocate. That’s the saddest part – how apathetic and accepting society has become of mens’ early death. “Well that’s the way it is!” you’ll hear. Cruelly proclaimed, as if men and boys dying decades before their time, is simply a mundane, unavoidable and “natural” way of life. But it’s not natural. Most of these early deaths can be prevented, and just one year of the (five year) life expectancy gap is “biological”, meaning the rest is up for grabs, if we cared enough to do something. As Prof. Randolf Neese, put it – “If we could equalise male and female life expectancy, we’d do more good than curing cancer”. And that’s what we’re up against – a cancer level threat – and so our response must be equally unapologetic, all encompassing, and united. No more early deaths, no more lost years, no more artificial minority. What do you think?

2025-12-08