What are the issues do men of lower socioeconomic status and living below poverty line face?

Xemnas81 · 2020-04-07T00:20:56+00:00

I've been lucky to...well, I will be honest...exploit my 'disabled and autistic' status to get on employment gateway programmes and disability benefit. This doesn't mean I'll never work again but it means that I get a lot of financial and vocational support, assistance finding and...staying alive while studying, training, whatever. I also have living and understanding friends and family.

Many men are not so lucky; most of the funding by both public AND private sector goes to women. Masculinity Studies is aware of this but can't rationalise it with patriarchy theory except through arguing something like "we assume women to be financial dependents and not have their own income, so they need the money more." (Well, we no longer do, in fact, women in their 20s out-earn men now!) Or, of course, it's because men don't care-which is true but that's because of gynocentrism and male thirst, now we've gone in circles.

Besides this, there is the 'man up' component, feminists are right there, and stronger demand for you not to be a 'leech'. But many people identifying as feminists cling onto that ironically tradcon/patriarchal belief-sort of an "I shouldn't feel like this, it's inconsistent, but I do anyway" mentality, lol.

2020-04-05T00:45:52+00:00

Is it true more men than ever are out of work

Title	What are the issues do men of lower socioeconomic status and living below poverty line face?
Author	Strikester101
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Date	April 4, 2020 4:28 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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