Despite having strict rules against hate, discrimination, and dehumanization, mainstream social media platforms do not enforce these rules when it comes to men because, according to their logic, men are not a vulnerable group.
This is just plainly wrong. Men are vulnerable and the data confirms this.
First off, let's define the criteria of vulnerability.
Criteria of vulnerability
- Economic Discrimination
- Health Inequality
- Workplace Challenges and Exploitation
- Violence and Discrimination
- Intersectionality of Race and Gender
1. ECONOMIC DISCRIMINATION
# Feminists like to cite the "
gender pay gap" myth repeatedly which has already been debunked several times.
What they never tell us is that
there are several cities in US where young women out-earn young men.
Women aged between 22 and 29 in employment are now earning more on average per hour than men of the same age.
The Korn Ferry Gender Pay Index analysed more than 12.3 million employees in 14,284 companies in 53 countries.
This study showed that men are discriminated against and women are favoured in the fast-growing markets where they found a 3.1% gap favouring women.
Google were accused of 'Extreme' Discrimination against women, regarding a 'Gender pay Gap' by the US labor department.
Facing a lawsuit and being compelled to provide data, google decided to investigate the gender pay gap internally and they discovered that it was in fact, you guessed it, men who were being underpaid across the board.
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$9.7 million in compensation to 10,677 employees for 2018, with a disproportionate amount of that going to men."
Same thing happened with BBC.
BBC men to get pay rises as review rejects gender discrimination claims.
# Along with that,
Men make up the majority of the homeless.
# Poverty statistics show that women are in more poverty than men, but what they hide from us is that
poverty hurts the boys the most.
# Employment discrimination as we all know leads to economic disparities.
One study on hiring discrimination found that in every cohort, women were preferred over men. Whether single, married, childless, or with children.
The fact that they found that women were preferred over men is buried inside of the body of the study.
You can read the full text of
the study here:
Becker, S. O., Fernandes, A., & Weichselbaumer, D. (2019). Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment. Labour Economics, 59, 139-152.
Another
study on gender blind hiring performed in Australia found discrimination against men.
And let's not forget:
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Women control or influence 85% of consumer spending (Source, Forbes 2019)
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Women control more than 60% of all personal wealth in the U.S. (Source: Federal Reserve, MassMutual Financial Group, BusinessWeek, Gallup)
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Approximately 40% of U.S. working women now out-earn their husbands. (Source: U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics)
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In the US, breadwinners in 40% households are female. Yet only 3% of alimony payers are female.
2. HEALTH INEQUALITY
# The research was conducted against a general assumption that medical research was unfairly focused on men. The complaints were loud enough to inspire research into the topic where it was quickly found that far more interest and money was put into women's health research than men, including even in areas where men are known to be affected more.
Bartlett, E. E. (2001). Did medical research routinely exclude women? An examination of the evidence. Epidemiology, 12(5), 584-586.
https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Ful..._Research_Routinely_Exclude_Women__An.20.aspx
https://menarehuman.com/6195-2/
https://web.archive.org/web/2010043...c.com/past/docs/issues/96jun/cancer/kadar.htm
# It's a well known fact that
men commit suicide more than women in every country in the world. But what is behind this rate? People argue that since women attempt suicide at higher rates than men, it proves that women are the ones in need of help not men. But
men have a higher rate of suicidal intent than women. It seems that many women could be making a suicidal gesture rather than actually wanting to commit suicide.
Some also say that men choose more lethal methods, but this is also not indicative of men's suicide rate because
even when men choose the same methods, they still die more than women.
Some say it is due to toxic masculinity, but even that has problems. First of all, if women were more oppressed than men, why would they commit suicide at a higher rate? Secondly,
91% of men who committed suicide did seek help before doing it
So, what is the reason? Well,
suicide prevention programs work much better for girls than for boys.
This
study shows that men are dropping out of therapy prematurely because therapy was created with women in mind.
# Now, everyone knows that
women live longer than men in almost every country on Earth. But leave alone the fact that men are more likely to commit suicide, die at work (more on than later), die during a conflict (more on than later), drown, die from an injury, and die from child abuse, let's look at mens health.
Men are more likely to die from cancer,
heart attacks, and even
coronavirus
Despite all this,
women's health receives FOUR TIMES as much funding as men's health.
# Men are more likely to abuse alcohol than women. Men have higher rate of hospitalization due to alcohol than women. Finally, Males are more than three times as likely to die by suicide than females, and more likely to have been drinking prior to suicide.
https://archive.ph/rOCiH
Alcohol abuse is also closely associated with major depression, anxiety, and bipolar.
https://www.americasrehabcampuses.c...er-is-most-commonly-comorbid-with-alcoholism/
This shows that abusing alcohol among men is more closely linked to mental health issues in men.
# Boys are not protected from
genital mutilation, and are more likely to be
undernourished, worldwide.
3. WORKPLACE CHALLENGES AND EXPLOITATION
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The most dangerous, health-hazardous jobs are all male-dominated.
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Men make up the majority of workplace fatalities and workplace injuries.
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Men are 10 times more likely to die due to their jobs compared to women.
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Men are 1.75 times more likely than women to work 41+ hour weeks, are 2.3 times more likely than women to work 60+ hour weeks, and also work estimately 85 more hours than women in a year.
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According to this study, men are much more unsatisfied with their jobs than women
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Male life expectancy is 5.3 years lower than female,
yet men tend to retire later than women. (
Several countries still have a lower retirement age for women)
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Even boys are more likely to be put in child labor than girls, and according to this
study, the work they do is very dangerous and harmful.
# Women reap more in
tax benefits than do men.
# In some countries, men are forced into
gender-based conscription. Currently, about 60 countries have mandatory drafts for males but only 9 have mandatory drafts for women. In some countries, women serve for a shorter time, like in Israel, women serve two years while men serve for 2.5 years.
In some cases,
men and boys will be targeted in a military operation or massacre.
4. VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION
# Men face
longer prison sentences for the exact same crime. While it is true that men are more likely to commit crimes, it doesn't explain the gender disparity, which is a lot longer than racial disparity, which means even an African American woman would get a shorter sentence than a white man.
Men are more likely to be stopped by the police, and even when women are stopped,
they are less likely to be arrested.
Men are discriminated against even when they are the victims,
as criminals get harsher punishments for killing women than for killing men.
And overall, men are
90% of those in prison,
98% of death row inmates, and
98.8% of those executed.
They are more likely to be
shot to death by police, to be
murdered.
Men are the majority of victims of public sphere violence.
# Men are also not protected from
domestic violence, despite research showing that
domestic violence directed at men is at least as, if not more, common than domestic violence directed at women.
Mostly all shelters are for women and domestic violence is seen as a woman's problem.
Given that men give more tax revenue to the governments than women do, it means that mostly men are paying for shelters that they themselves are not allowed to access.
There is a remarkably sad story of a male domestic violence survivor who tried to set up a shelter for men, but he ran out of funding, and committed suicide:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Silverman
A 2005 study on domestic violence wrote their entire abstract in a way that implies that domestic violence is significantly worse against women than against men. But the actual body of their research reports the exact opposite of that. A fact that other researchers eventually discovered and wrote about.
...Interestingly, authors responding to findings that suggest a narrow or non-existent gender gap in partner abuse rates also allege that females are universally more vulnerable to abuse by men than men are to abuse by women. Importantly, this perspective has found little support in the data.
Carney, M., Buttell, F., & Dutton, D. (2007). Women who perpetrate intimate partner violence: A review of the literature with recommendations for treatment. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 12(1), 108-115.
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...rature-With-Recommendations-for-Treatment.pdf
The very first large scale federal study on domestic violence in the US was carried out by researchers who expected to find higher rates of female victimization compared to male victimization. The results of that study showed that slightly more men than women were victims of domestic violence, including severe forms of violence.
Two of those researchers -- Murray Straus and Suzanne Steinmetz -- spent the rest of their careers researching this phenomenon after discovering this. Steinmetz, in particular, was the first researcher to coin the "battered husband syndrome" back in 1977, a concept that would eventually be co-opted by feminists during the 1980s and derided as a "myth" when applied to men.
Straus, M. A. (2010). Thirty years of denying the evidence on gender symmetry in partner violence: Implications for prevention and treatment. Partner Abuse, 1(3), 332-362.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1946-6560.1.3.332
Related to this is the fact that Erin Pizzey discovered the same thing "on the ground" after opening the world's first domestic violence shelter for women in Britain.
All of the relevant parties here took this in stride and bravely went against the status quo. In some instances they even received death threats and bomb threats from feminists. All three are widely celebrated today by the MRM.
# Despite the fact that men are raped and sexually assaulted at alarmingly high rates (mostly by women, contrary to popular belief), they are not adequately protected.
Rape is usually seen as a crime that only happens to women. Even religions rarely mention men as rape victims. In fact,
only 3% of organizations that acknowledge rape as a weapon of war help male victims.
William Collins states regarding female perpetrators:
Stemple, Flores and Meyer find the following in their 2017 study
Sexual Victimization Perpetrated by Women: Federal Data Reveal Surprising Prevalence (direct link to an older version of the PDF, I hope it's not too outdated).
They quote (among studies supporting this result):
They also talk about the considerable obstacles for male victims of sexual abuse (read the article by Stemple et al. if you want to know more about that).
Next, let us look at the other side of the coin, that is self-reported rapes (by male and female victims) in the US. According to The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Surveys (NISVS) by the CDC, in the US women rape men at virtually the same rate as men rape women if you include "being made to penetrate" in the definition of rape and survey incidences in the last 12 months. Here are the victimization rates using the 12-month prevalence, first for females and then for males:
Note that around 70-80% of people who rape men are women (see e.g. NISVS 2010, page 24 and NISVS 2011, page 6). Also, although CDC has said that this data is from the lifetime figures, there is actually no reason to suspect that it would be less in the previous 12-month figures. Infact, in NISVS 2016/17, male victims made to penetrate in the last 12 months reported more (about 83%) female perps than in their lifetime (about 70%).
Also note that they exclude "made to penetrate" in the definition of rape, so you have to be wary of this when reading the documents.
Similar numbers are found in the EU, e.g. in
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Sexual Victimization: Findings from a National Representative Sample of Belgian Adults Aged 16–69 (Schapansky et al., 2021) which finds that the 12-month-prevalence was 1.4% for men and 1.5% for women. Again, they use various tricks to downplay the prevalence of male victims of rape: while they actually include "made to penetrate" in the definition of rape, they do not consider attempted rape when it concerns men but do consider it when it concerns women. Additionally, they include various forms of penetration in the rape of females but conveniently overlook equivalent forms of sexual assault for males (such as stimulation of intercourse by hand). Thus, the number for men is likely even higher than the reported one.
This post from
r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates explores the problems with their approach in more detail.
You may also find this recently published summary paper
On the Sexual Assault of Men (DiMarco et al., 2021) useful. Some of its claims are:
- male rape happens about as often as female rape, and possibly exceeds it
- 80% of those who rape men are women
- the rape of men occurs with a frequency comparable to the rape of women, yet the arrest rate of female rapists is extremely low
- stereotypes such as "he became erect so he must have wanted it" have been debunked
- male rape victims suffer the same emotional and psychological consequences as female rape victims, even suffering physical injuries at comparable rates
You may also note that
Predictors of sexual coercion against women and men: a multilevel, multinational study of university students (Hines, 2007) found that as women gain more status, they are more likely to perpetrate sexual violence against men.
Why is the 12-month-prevalence preferable to the lifetime prevalence?
Has ‘lifetime prevalence’ reached the end of its life? An examination of the concept (Streiner et al., 2009) finds that the 12-month prevalence is more reliable than the lifetime prevalence.
Recall Bias can be a Threat to Retrospective and Prospective Research Designs (Hassan, 2005) finds that "[r]esearch tells us that 20% of critical details of a recognized event are irretrievable after one year from its occurrence and 50% are irretrievable after 5 years", again suggesting that the 12-month-prevalence is more accurate than the lifetime-prevalance.
Furthermore, one could argue that the lifetime prevalence gives a history lesson instead of teaching us about the current situation.
Some more info on this:
Madjlessi, J., & Loughnan, S. (2024). Male Sexual Victimization by Women: Incidence Rates, Mental Health, and Conformity to Gender Norms in a Sample of British Men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 53, 263-274.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02717-0
Smith, S. G. (2021). Sexual Violence Victimization of U.S. Males: Negative Health Conditions Associated with Rape and Being Made to Penetrate. NCBI. Retrieved July 6, 2024, from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9156716/
Thomas, J. C., & Kopel, J. (2023, April 3). Male Victims of Sexual Assault: A Review of the Literature. NCBI. Retrieved July 6, 2024, from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10135558/
Ybarra, M. L., & Mitchell, K. J. (2013). Prevalence Rates of Male and Female Sexual Violence Perpetrators in a National Sample of Adolescents. JAMA Pediatrics, 167(12), 1125-1134.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/1748355
Stemple, L., & Meyer, I. H. (2014). The Sexual Victimization of Men in America: New Data Challenge Old Assumptions. Am J Public Health, 104(6), 19-26.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062022/
Widanaralalage, K. B., Hine, B., & Murphy, A. (2022). Male Victims of Sexual Violence and Their Welfare in the Criminal Justice System. Men in Welfare.
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en...al-violence-and-their-welfare-in-the-criminal
Depraetere, J., Vandeviver, C., Beken, T. V., & Keygnaert, I. (2020). Big Boys Don’t Cry: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of Male Sexual Victimization. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 21(5), 991-1010.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1524838018816979
Some more sources on sexual abuse of men and boys, part 1-5
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Boys are more likely to be physically abused than girls
Schools punish boys more often and more harshly than girls
Men and boys make up the
majority of school dropouts.
Another study on educational discrimination expected to find discrimination against female students. They instead found exactly the opposite of this: that male students were discriminated against in every subject, including even in math and science.
Lavy, V. (2008). Do gender stereotypes reduce girls' or boys' human capital outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment. Journal of public Economics, 92(10-11), 2083-2105.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/vlavy/lavy_j.public.e_10.2008_gender_steriotypes.pdf
Over then entire OECD countries globally, a large scale study showed that girls were given higher marks for IDENTICAL work to boys. OECD also showed that a boy receives 1/3 higher grade if the teacher does not know he is a boy. Interestingly this gender gap goes away when it is a male teacher doing the marking.
https://www.tes.com/news/teacher-stereotyping-means-higher-marks-girls-says-oecd
Another study found that boys in all racial categories are not being “commensurately graded by their teachers” in any subject “as their test scores would predict.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/e...r-bias-erases-boys-falling-grades-study-finds
Boys 'being held back by women teachers' as gender stereotypes are reinforced in the classroom
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-gender-stereotypes-reinforced-classroom.html
Christian Hoff Sommers explains how boys are being punished for normal behaviours:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4
Do Schools discrimiante against boys: Dr. Jim Dueck, author, former Assistant Deputy Minister of Education for the province of Alberta, and former head of Accountability and Student Assessment, performed a revealing analysis on current practices in student assessment. The results were not only remarkable but very disturbing, exposing what might well be an institutional suppression of the performance of male students.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qloY4OJxBoQ
Related, despite a widely held view to the contrary, in a large scale national study, women are favoured 2:1 over IDENTICAL or even slightly more qualified men in STEM applicationss but gender BLIND helps men significantly, and the latter is now becoming less commonly applied as a result.
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360
# A study from the late 1980s on child custody discrimination expected to find discrimination against mothers, and not fathers (lol), but instead discovered that men were 6 times less likely to gain custody compared to identically placed women.
Not only did their publication attempt to use dishonest statistical shenanigans to hide this, they tried to burry the raw data to prevent other researchers from double checking their findings. Their study is still widely cited by other researchers as well as by random people on the Internet, because it is the only study that, on the surface, found discrimination against mothers. In one meta study it sticks out like a sore thumb in comparison to ~10 other studies that found the exact opposite.
You can read that meta study here, and a list of sources on page 974 in the footnotes:
"Beyond Economic Fatherhood: Encouraging Divorced Fathers to Parent".
https://web.archive.org/web/20110810022011/https://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/lawreview/articles/volume153/issue3/Maldonado153U.Pa.L.Rev.921(2005).pdf)
The story of how one researcher discovered that the study was fraudulent, and how he came into possession of the raw data that they tried to bury, can be found here:
Rosenthal, M. B. (1995). Misrepresentation of Gender Bias in the 1989 Report of the Gender Bias Committee of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Breaking The Science.
http://www.breakingthescience.org/SJC_GBC_analysis_intro.php
5. INTERSECTIONALITY OF RACE AND GENDER
Some data reveals that Blacks are more likely to be accused of rape than other male students.
https://reason.com/2017/09/14/we-need-to-talk-about-black-students-bei/
A couple more articles mention it:
https://www.theatlantic.com/educati...rtable-truth-about-campus-rape-policy/538974/
https://www.theatlantic.com/educati...f-race-in-campus-sexual-assault-cases/539361/
Some more info on black men facing more discrimination than black women can be found here:
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/17v764g/many_studies_show_black_men_face_more/
