Today, July 11th, is Gender Empathy Gap Day. In short, the gender empathy gap is the empirically supported claim (and new research continues to emerge) that our perception of pain and suffering differs between the sexes, and that we perceive a man or boy going through the same situation as a woman or girl as suffering less, even when real-world data indicates that the former is suffering more.

The origins of this day are MANNdat, a German association founded in 2004 and based in Stuttgart which sees itself as an independent, non-partisan interest group for male citizens with the goal of eliminating legal disadvantages and public discrimination against men.

As such, today and tomorrow users are encouraged to post articles focusing on disparities in society's allocation of compassion toward men and boys.

A few topics that fall under this category are the following: - Male Disposability - In-group Bias (or relative lack thereof) - "Women are Wonderful"-effect - Male Gender Blindness - Gamma Bias - Moral Typecasting - Perceptual distortions like increased threat sensitivity and decreased sympathy caused by male-typical facial morphology, body stature and voice - Helping Behavior