Having set up this page nearly six years ago (!), looking back, I didn’t think this would be quite so hard.

I remember –

I saw boys languishing in education, across the board, and for decades.

I saw abused men, left behind, by the millions.

I saw mens health falling through the floor, at every metric, at every age, and across every country.

I saw fathers losing kids, or jobs, or families, to little or no public outcry.

I saw baby boys mutilated routinely, at an industrial scale, by those who are supposed to protect them.

Whether it was homelessness, drug addiction, workplace death, incarceration, police brutality, or homicide, I saw the so-called “privileged” gender dominating the statistics.

I saw men ending their own lives in record numbers.

I saw them dragged into unmarked vans in Ukraine.

I saw others rounded up and executed in Kashmir.

I saw the mass graves of Srebrenica.

And Nigerian boys taken by Boko Haram by the tens of thousands.

I saw questions unanswered, stories untold, and headlines unwritten.

I saw pain, and misery, substantiated by mountains of research, and compiled by world leading experts, flying under the radar of public consciousness, and saw nothing but contempt for those who tried to change this.

I sound silly now, but I was arrogant enough to believe that all that was missing was someone like me.

Someone with the skill set and time to put these horrifying pieces in the right order, so that suddenly, the world would see the terrible tapestry of pain that I was witnessing.

It hasn’t gone as planned.

And now a new question, even more pertinent emerges – why does nobody care, and how can we get this to change?

What do you think?

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2025-10-17