Stop saying "by other men!"

So often when you post about violent assaults, gang or knife crimes, homicide, criminal exploitation, sexual abuse in prison, or war deaths; where men are the overwhelming victims, a shrill voice quickly arrives at the scene to immediately derail the conversation.

“BY OTHER MEN!”

It’s a voice that seems to think if a crime is committed by a man, against another man, then both things cancel each other out, and therefore it doesn’t matter.

A few days ago I tweeted a video of a young Ukrainian man being dragged from his home, getting stuffed into a van, and taken to the front line of the war.

Such a video was a heartbreaking affront to personal liberty and freedom, that I thought might draw emotions of shock and sympathy, perhaps even outrage and protest…. but no….

In response, it was, as it always is, the same symphony of stupidity that serenades so many of these conversations.

“WHOS DOING IT!”
“WHO STARTED THE WAR!”
“WHO WROTE THE RULES!”
“WHO BUILT THE SYSTEM?”

And so on, and so forth.

Such a voice seems to think that an innocent man who is being headlocked and dragged into a van, somehow ‘started the war’, and/or ‘wrote the rules’ to the cruel military draft himself.

Such a person has become so used to seeing “men” as a faceless, dehumanized, monolithic blob, that men being harmed and killed (“by other men “), are both the simultaneous instigator and victim of such things.

This cartoon, childlike view of the world is prevalent on the left, and is typically the first word they yell when listening to men's issues.

Ironically, it’s the same flavor of bigotry that racists use, to derail and wave away conversation of gang violence with “black on black crime”.

And I am bored of it.

Because to me, it’s not shitty people that I worry about most.

It’s shitty people who are drunk on their own sense of perceived moral superiority, who are light-years away from realising they are absolutely part of the problem too.

Aren’t you tired of them?

What do you think?