Just because you don’t hear about something, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Because sadly, the pain, suffering and tragic loss of men and boys across the world, all too often happens in darkness. Male gender blindness, The Women are Wonderful Effect, G-PROF (greater protectiveness of females), Male disposability, Gynocentrism… The theory goes by many names, and has yet to be fully understood, but the phenomenon is real – we simply do not care as much about the loss of life and wellbeing of men and boys, as we do women and girls. ‘900 killed! Including 50 women and children!’ ‘Women make up 11% journalists killed, stop killing female journalists!’ Are headlines I often read. Or, “Women and children first!” The iconic words that ring out into the darkness, during times of disaster and crisis. We see it today too. We hear about the “women led revolution” of Iran, and the cost women are paying for it – but we never heard that 90% of deaths of Iranian protestors are men and boys, and 100% of executions have been of men. The UK is reeling from a report that found ‘children as young as eight’ were being strip searched by British police, and yet no mention of how 95% of those ‘children’, were boys. Even in the wake of the Ukraine invasion, Hilary Clinton has reminded us of her own stupidity, by doubling down on her infamous claim, by repeating that ‘women and children are the primary victims of conflict’. Again, last week was very much the same. A new report into the killing of women environmental campaigners has just been published, and the same outrage rightly ensures, but little is said, done or even known about the fact that male deaths outnumber the women’s by around 4:1. So is there four times the outrage for our lost men? No. They are not even mentioned by the press. So when is it right to ask: what about our men? ~ Study Images by Codioful, Matthew Mccqurraie, Black Kiwi Hug,

2023-06-12