This is a very important mens rights issue (an actual right here, as its a legal right men are). I dont want to talk about feminism, but here it is inevitable. Feminism is a major reason why this issue is not being addressed, so no getting around it. For example, feminist claim institutional sexism against men does not exist (what is more institutionally sexist than this policy?) feminist World Economic Forum produces gender inequality index - this index, does not even consider this retirenemtn factor at all as being a gender equality issue. But thats no surprise, in fact it even states men must die 6% sooner than women to reach gender parity score of 1 (if men "only" die 5% sooner, it is actually seen as gender inequality for women, and the score is lowered to show women face sexism)

Note: I will refer to this from now on as the "gender retirement age and length gap" (please suggest in comments better name, as it aint exactly catchy or succinct - interesting, if I said gender retirement gap, people would assume its some form of sexism against women) its important MRM names concepts so people can easily refer to them and to make them more public. It also makes complicated concepts more usable by every day people, so they are more likely to use it, as if it didn't have an easy name, they wouldn't be able to insert the topic into a debate. This is why feminism does it

A bit of background first:

An anorexic person who is stick thin, thinks they are fat when they look in the mirror. Many Feminists thinks women are oppressed and men are privileged in everything they see e.g. when looking at health, education, work..... instead of just looking to see the real situation which is usually a mix of both, and which is usually far more complex then people even being oppressed or privileged at all (terms I personally find next to useless). This is why feminism is so often a flawed approach, and why I will not use it to address this issue.

If this problem was confined just to feminists sure OK. But its not, feminists have got this thinking into policy and they affect politicians views, they have also spread this false bias into general society. This is a bias society naturally has anyway due to society:

For reference:List of retirement ages by country.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_ageAnd a great article on issue:https://becauseits2015.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/men-live-79-as-many-years-in-retirement-as-women/Note that even in countries that have a gender equal retirement age, men still will have usually 4-12 years less in retirement as they live less. Now retirement ages are supposed to be based on life expectancy, but they don't count mens life expectancy they count average. This is an example, and one of many, where the "female is the default" which is a concept of course feminsm denies, and instead leads us to falsely believe society always sees "men are the default" other examples of female default are in education/school, university, and many healthcare services, advertising etc. - Of course like an anorexic, feminism cant see this.

HELPING A FEMINIST ECONOMICS STUDENT OUT:

So in summary its about me helping out a feminist in economics do her research on inequality (she wasn't doing it on women btw, just inequality in genera and we were focusing on retirement. Basically despite compared to women, men in her country get TEN years less in retirement AND have to work FIVE years MORE to even get any retirement at all (men retire 65, women 60)... Her SOLE conclusion: The pension system and retirement overall ONLY oppresses women and is structurally sexist to women. Ironically, earlier in essay she talks about how time discriminates women as women work 1 hour more per week if you add up paid and unpaid labour (this is spurious but oft repeated claim, many studies show otherwise).... yet seemed to be completely oblivious to the fact that men would have TEN full years less retirement, and this unlike personal choice (how much I work, how much I do unpaid labour) was actually MANDATED by state (I.e. men HAVE to work 5 years longer and the system also sets men retirement age as longe EVEN though they live 5 years less, so if anyone is being discounted agains for time, its men, and in those case structurally and obviously..... compared to more roundabout/stretching explanations she gave for why women doing more unpaid labour is actually women being discriminated against and not their choice)

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Now coming back to your reponse, I think you have done something similar to the feminist I helped in her paper. Yes what you said above is true. My opinion is violence affects men and women in different ways. Overall yes statically no doubt men face more violence, but Im not going to paint is men only victims of this. Im not painting anything in fact, and Im not using idealogical framworks like patrichy to explain things. Im using normal social sciences way of looking at this. The only person doing the one gender is biggest victim is you, but in reverse i.e your ironically saying women are the only victims or biggest victims of violence, and violence against women is a special category. (despite violence against women being a minority form of violence)....However, the primary victims of violence are men. No question. Murder, kidnap, beatings, hate crimes, homophobic attacks, torture, unlawful arrest, political prisoners, police killings, child prisoners.... it goes on and one....murder rate is around 10x more than the only way you can say women are bigger victims of violence, is if you use a microscope and exclude all other forms of violence and look at one area.... sexual assault.... then claim that sexual assault is the biggest and worst of all, and hence women are most affected by violent crime.

The second thing you have to make women most affected hashtag is to say you know what the only violence that matters is cross gender. See below:

Method 5: Only count cross-gender violence.

If you compare only rates of woman-on-man violence with man-on-woman violence, you end up with the impression that women are much more likely to face violence. But it’s hardly acceptable to ignore the large category of man-on-man violence, because it’s not like an act of violence is “cancelled out” if the perpetrator and the victim share the same gender. Men face violence at equal or higher rates than women. The fact that the perpetrator is usually another man hardly lessens the impact. Interestingly, I’ve seen a similar method of focusing on cross-race violence used by white nationalists. Although black people generally face higher levels of violence, they focus on the fact that black-on-white crime is more common than white-on-black crime. Here’s an example from American Renaissance, an online white nationalist blog/magazine.

Going back to a topic from the previous section (Method 4), one point that could be raised here is that if most violence experienced by men is committed by men, doesn’t that rule out it being “because of their gender” in the sense of bias? The answer is no. Most people understand how women or black people can internalize negative biases against their own group, so why couldn’t men internalize negative biases against their own group?

Method 6: Victim-blame. Make assumptions and use stereotypes to portray male victims as less sympathy-worthy, or not really victims at all.

An example would be dismissing men’s higher rate of being murdered by describing a typical male victim as someone who “just” makes bad decisions and associates with drug dealers. This would be like dismissing women’s higher rate of being murdered by a partner by describing a typical female victim as someone who “just” makes bad decisions and dates drug dealers.

This isn’t an assertion that it’s inherently wrong to evaluate a crime’s severity based not just on the effect but also on the victim’s actions or choices and how “innocent” they were. How comfortable you are with that is up to you, and it’s not a topic that will be addressed here. The point here is that we need to be consistent. If it’s not acceptable to do to female victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or intimate partner murder, then it’s also not acceptable to do to male victims of physical assault, murder, and robbery. If the thought of doing it to women shocks you then you shouldn’t do it to men. And if you don’t have a problem doing it to men then you do that with the understanding that you’re opening it up to be done to women too.

The reason inconsistency is a concern is because of traditionalist stereotypes of agency and the idea that “men do things and women have things done to them”. The implication of male hyperagency and female hypoagency here is that violence against men is more easily seen as something the man brings on himself while violence against women is seen as more “pure” victimhood.

Excellent video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eqYEVYZgdo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w__PJ8ymliw

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In summary IMO it is an incredibly gynocentric way and narcissistic way that feminism views the world.... only in terms of women.... I think that is the point she sums up really well in the video (), in fact thats the whole point of the video women are oppressed and men are privelged because it is incredibly gynocentric and narcissistic way of viewing things.

And society is gynocetnrtic which allows this.... and this is the feminist lie

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Thanks for response, I'l reply later. To go with my reply:You said: 'Women do have it worse on average'citation needed. In what way? I am of the opinion men and women have issues and privileges. You are consistently, nahhh women only opressed (I dont even think men and women are oppressed either)What key metrics? List the specific metrics areas of life? And why are those female metrics worse for women than the metrics that affect men?Life expectancy? Retirement age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_in_Europe Years in retirement? Educational attainment? Freedom from disease? Homelessness? Being victim of violent crime? Suicide? Much longer working lives,Hard, gruelling jobs, death at work? work outside, work at heights? longer commutes, relocation for work?Be specific? Pretty sure ALL points above are worse for men as a class? No?So what points?For me its been:Female reproductive biology and genitals - but that is biology not society. It is huge huge thing though.Fear of crime (despite being far less likely to be a victim of crime - but certainly women are more afraid of crime)I could say more, but I am talking about key metrics.... health, education, etc. even saying fear of crime was pushing it a bit IMO