One of the central accomplishments of The women’s movement over the last two decades has been to draw media attention to the physical suffering and institutionalized victimization of women...

Imnotmrabut · 2017-04-18T15:21:37+00:00

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One of the central accomplishments of the women’s movement over the last two decades has been to draw media attention to the physical suffering and institutionalized victimization of women in North American society. In Canada, the aftermath of Marc Lépine’s terrorist rampage at the University of Montreal accelerated the nationwide ﬂurry of analysis concerning the issue of violence against women, which was generally held to be the relevant context for Lépine’s actions. The other side of human suffering and victimization in Canadian society has, unfortunately, passed almost unnoticed by mainstream media. Aspects of sufering which could be considered largely or speciﬁcally “male” have tended to be ignored, dismissed, or distorted. This has served to highlight the broad range of female victimization experiences — an important and worthy subject. But it has also denigrated or de-emphasized the male side, which in any humane and objective value system ought to be accorded every bit as much consideration and concern. This phenomenon does not seem to be the result of a “boomerang” effect in media coverage. We are not dealing here with matters which have been male preserves in the past — something which might justify greater attention to the female side to help redress the balance. Rather, in this respect, the male experience has never been a matter for social concern as such, for reasons that will be examined later. All this suggests an anti-male bias, unfashionable though such a concept may be to progressive minds. To clarify some essential features of this bias, I propose to examine a series of articles from Canada’s self-proclaimed “National Newspaper,” the Toronto Globe and Mail. The articles were published between March 10 and June 15, 1990. They constitute part (but only part) of The Globe’s wide-ranging analysis of social issues, including “women’s issues”— that is, issues and social problems which are allegedly indicative (predominantly or exclusively) of the female experience in our society.

Adam Jones (2 December 2008). Gender Inclusive: Essays on Violence, Men, and Feminist International Relations. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-97400-8.

Imnotmrabut · 2017-04-18T15:25:15+00:00

All this suggests an anti-male bias, unfashionable though such a concept may be to progressive minds

That certainly hasn't been my experience with "progressive minds". Otherwise decent and kind people routinely celebrate men's suffering because of "the patriarchy" and "privilege".

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