For so many, to grow up as a boy, is to be told you are living life on ‘easy mode’. But if you honestly look around at the world right now; at the hostility toward, and betrayal of boys, you might see a starkly different story. As a boy you are less educated, less safe, less protected from harm, and will face higher mortality rates every year, than your female counterparts, for your entire male lives. Boys are more likely to be excluded from school, more likely to be a victim of modern slavery and sextortion, more likely to fail education and run away from home, more likely to be stabbed on the streets, to be killed by a police officer, to be incarcerated, or join a gang. More likely to be a victim of modern slavery, or experience dating violence, addiction, and lonliness, and more likely to lose their life to suicide. Millions of boys are being raised without a father, for whom there are seldom positive male role models at school, on the TV, or in the media either. And so a dearth of positive male role models, and the failure of progressive politics, has created a power vacuum into which grifters like Andrew Tate, and other insecure men, have climbed in. So yes, the journey of a boy child in 2024 can be a solitary, painful, and misunderstood experience. It is to be openly shamed by society, to be spared of compassion, dignity and support, and to instead be immersed within shame laden, paranoid political theories instead. It is be called “toxic” at the earliest possible opportunity, to be seen as predators in waiting; roundly condemned for quite literally everything wrong in the world, as the newest members of a nonsensical monolithic oppressor class of men. Such a set of experiences will quickly steal the innocence of any child, and ironically, likely push them into becoming the very thing we accused them of. So have we failed boys, and what advice do they so desperately need to hear? What do you think? - #mensmentalhealth #malesuicideawareness #mentalhealth #parentingtips #dadlife

2024-05-20