One issue I see in society is people just don't seem to understand men. Meaning why men behave the way they do and what their motivation are.

This is true not just for women but for many men as well.

One example of this is the importance of work. While work is important for just about everyone under capitalism, the pressures that we place on men are a lot higher than what we place on women. Men don't have outs and options in life to be taken care of if they don't earn a living for themselves. So employment often becomes a matter of life and death.

Another reason that work is important is because men derive value from work. Society judges a man by his earnings capability. It's not enough to have a good personality or a sense of humor. Nor is it enough to work a job (or to volunteer your time for something) that is meaningful or impactful: men are expected not just to work, but to earn money. This is because we do not place as much default value on a man as we do a woman.

A third reason work is important for men is because work is the avenue that men achieve dating and familiar success. Men don't just have to work to earn an income for themselves. They have to earn a surplus for other people. Men are the ones who pay for dates. And when children and marriage are on the table, men are the ones who finance all of the major costs in life for a family.

A lot of people just don't seem to understand the financial stress that men are placed under to pay a mortgage and to also come up with enough extra money to keep their wife / girlfriend and kids happy. Men also don't have the freedom to walk away when this arrangement stops working for them. This is enforced both socially and institutionally through the family court system. In many ways, we turn men into indentured servants.

Many men suffer in silence, doing what is expected of them, because they can't articulate this burden. Society doesn't give us the language, or even the platform, to begin to talk about this. So people just don't know. And then we wonder why men work themselves to death or aren't around for their families. Even when they work the hours they do for their families.

And men do literally work themselves to death. The male life expectancy is five years lower than women. Men also carry a greater health and disability burden. Both of which are directly caused by this unspoken problem in society.