"It’s no wonder men feel like they have to prove they are something when all people talk about in the tragedy of war is the death of women and children. Be better, folks. Men’s lives are not expendable. They are someone’s kid too."

Found this post on Bluesky and felt it was worth sharing, and flaired it as progress because I definitely feel it counts as progress when male lives are also taken into account and the exclusionary "women and children" rhetoric is rightfully criticized. Not to pull an "all lives matter" but the lives of men and boys have just as much worth and value as women and girls, and it's tiresome, insulting and plain sexist to them never treated as such. "Women and children" is a term and way of thinking long overdue to be retired.

To me this is what it means to be truly liberal, acknowledging and including every group and giving them worth and value. Unfortunately thanks to the W-word crowd (I think you know which word I mean and due to it's massive overuse by the Right, I'll refrain from using it) who've largely hijacked the mainstreat Left, more and more men are being pushed to the Right and people are quick to associate being liberal in anyway with hating men/boys and never wanting to help them. It's a massive problem that needs to be rectified.