“More men die from prostate cancer than women die from breast cancer and yet still, the men’s football teams wear pink jerseys in support of breast cancer awareness — and even those efforts, once again, completely ignore men. My uncle died from breast cancer.  Men die from breast cancer. Yet 90% of men don’t even know that males can get breast cancer — don’t have any awareness at all of the seriousness of getting a lump in their chest looked at by a doctor.

Why the fuck should the rest of us subsidise the hospitals and the healthcare system for health issues that can be avoided, while educating and providing support for people with conditions they have no control over, remains perpetually underfunded? What about some funding for men’s health – promoting awareness, research and treatment! Here's an idea; why not budget the same amount of money for men's health as they do for women's health? Is that such a fucking crazy suggestion?

Screams of “Misogynist!” from the bleachers by the feminists deliberately misinterpreting a call for actual equality, as an attack on funding for women’s health, as they drag themselves out of the self-indulgent quagmire where they have been quietly enjoying the high male suicide rate. 

In the West, suicide rates amongst men under 30 have risen by 40% since 2010. Suicide by males now accounts for as many deaths as breast cancer does for women. Did you read that? In the West, male suicide now accounts for as many deaths as breast cancer does in women, for fucks sake! Yet any attempt to put a spotlight on this is quashed either through callous indifference, or deliberately under the ethos of Zero-Sum Empathy. We live in a world where no one; pro-male or pro-female, is prepared to genuinely accept that the other sex has to deal with difficulties, without automatically measuring that cost up against their own suffering.

This ridiculous assumption that any assistance or funding offered to help men and boys, is assistance or funding that must be taken away from helping women and girls.

It’s as if the love we have for each other, the care available for people who are struggling in life is seen as a finite resource. It’s like both sides are trying to balance some bizarre social justice equation — like victimhood masquerading as arithmetic. It’s a fucking catastrophe — just ask the mothers, the fathers, the sisters, the brothers, the boyfriends and the girlfriends of the young men that are killing themselves.

Humanity is an appalling fucking thing.”

The Beating Room - Alexis Caulfield
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