tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
“#Men suffer 91.4% of fatal injuries on the job, versus 8.6% for women. The most dangerous occupation in the United States is logging, where the fatal injury rate is 82.2 per 100,000 workers and where 96% of the people in the occupation are male. Underground mining […] is the 8th most dangerous, with 26.7 deaths per 100,000 workers and with 99% of the workers being male. Should we get more #women in those occupations to close that fatality #GenderGap?”
Sometimes there is progress:
“It’s men, not women, who are now underrepresented in universities. Women in the United States have earned more bachelor’s degrees than men every year since the mid-1980s. Last fall, #women made up 59.2% of all those enrolled in a college or #university, and men made up only 40.8%. Women are also outperforming their male peers earning higher GPAs in high school and college, even in the male-dominated STEM fields. […] Efforts to help women in college are no longer necessary and are unfair to men. […] These initiatives [are] apparently illegal under Title IX. #TitleIX protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. […] For the same reasons that universities can’t offer sports to #men only, they can’t offer awards solely to women.”
In vitro gametogenesis (expected to happen in 5–25 years) will give #women yet another tool to increase their reproductive options. (Not so much men — gay or straight — as a woman are still needed for gestation.)
Today, women don’t need a committed partner, or even a one-night stand. They can freeze their eggs and postpone maternity. They can get regular eggs from a donor for free (or the best ones paying money). They can get regular sperm from a donor for free (or the best one paying money; ie pick and choose a “father” online). They alone decide about abortion. They can have their partners raise a child that is not their own. They can give birth alone, leave “name of the father” blank on the form, and nobody even bothers to find out whether there might be an unwilling father out there, or questions the merits of deciding to raise a kid without a father.
Men can’t do any of that.
Talk about “reproductive rights”.
An artificial womb will the be biggest advance in favour of #men. It might be the great equalizer. Gestation will cease to be a burden, a risk, and a privilege exclusive to women. Imagine a single man becoming a father, and nobody even asking him “who’s the mother?” or “who donated the eggs?” (Sounds heartless, sad, creepy? It’s just what we have now, only with the sexes reversed.)
#ArtificialWombs are not expected to arrive any time soon, though.
Get this:
In prosperous liberal democracies, #women either are better educated and wealthier than #men — or will be very soon.
Women can freeze their eggs, get inseminated for free or paying very little (or pay a bit more to pick and choose the “best” semen online), become the sole parents of fatherless children… and society does not only not bat an eyelid at this, but their stories are usually met with admiration in the media and get support (eg, in the form of subsidies for single mothers).
Meanwhile, #surrogacy is highly controversial, and actually illegal in roughly half of the Western world.
So, women can be picky, ambitious and independent and still have kids. But men can’t.
It’s a near future (almost a present already) of children without male role models, and of men falling behind in three areas: fewer kids, less education, and less money than women.
Guess who is the main victim here? Who’s to blame? Who society should help?
“It [is] men, not women, who [are] the problem”
“The decline of men […] is also having a deleterious effect on women’s lives”
“We need to start talking about the men-as-partners problem”
“Women around the world are really doing amazing things in higher education, […] but unfortunately the downside of that is some men are not doing so well now and women are suffering for that”
The British Psychological Society, also on the issues of #men (in this case, male suicide and #ToxicMasculinity)
I can’t recommend Richard V. Reeves’ Of Boys and Men enough.
Reeves is measured, constructive and compassionate. He explains so well how exactly #men are falling behind, why we as a society don’t even seem to notice that, and how attention to those issues doesn’t have to subtract from female issues.
Especially recommended to male issues sceptics out there.
This proves that strong criticism of modern #feminism is not a fringe position in 2023 by any means, and that even among women and even among the youngest generation a large proportion of people (ranging from ⅓ to ½) are sceptical, resisting, or noticing discrimination against #men.
It’s a 32-country survey of 22+K adults by #Ipsos (the world’s third largest research agency) and the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (King’s College London).
Not all aggregates are representative because some countries with large populations (eg India, China, Indonesia) probably skew less feminist than others. But even the figures for specific Western democracies (and those are accurate) show less than clear enthusiasm, even from women themselves.
This will be surprising.
To some people.
The World Health Organisation groups all causes of death into three large categories.
These were the global ratios men/women in the last year available (2019) for those categories.
Happy #InternationalWomensDay!
«El gran problema es la consideración del varón como un sexo (o género) moralmente inferior. Los horrores causados por el #hombre, como la guerra o los crímenes, se asocian a la masculinidad, mientras que sus logros literarios, científicos o artísticos se explican por un sistema de opresión que no permitía a la #mujer alcanzar dichos hitos. Es decir, consideramos que la mujer es tan capaz como el hombre en todo, excepto en la maldad. La conclusión inevitable de ese discurso es que es necesario acabar con lo que convierte al hombre en hombre: la #masculinidad.»
— Daniel Jiménez
https://www.elmundo.es/papel/historias/2023/03/04/64021b9421efa0041a8b45d5.html
It’s amazing that we’re not amazed by those instances of #GammaBias. What the hell are they thinking?
“Of all journalists killed in 2021, 11% were women. In 2020, this was 6%. (Source: @UNESCO). On the International Day to #EndImpunity for Crimes against Journalists, let us say out loud: 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐉𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒. #ProtectJournalists”
After a load of stats and surveys from different sources, starting in the 70s and spanning half a century:
“Men are more committed than women to the pursuit of #truth as the raison d’être of #science, while women are more committed to various moral goals, such as equity, inclusion, and the protection of vulnerable groups. […] #Men are relatively more interested in advancing what is empirically correct, and #women are relatively more interested in advancing what is morally desirable.”
And #stats like these:
- “Men account for just 24% of K-12 teachers, down from 33% in the early 1980s.”
- “Only one in ten elementary #school teachers are male.”
- “In early #education, men are virtually invisible. It ought to be a source of national shame that only 3% of pre-K and kindergarten #teachers are men.”
- “There are twice as many women flying U.S. military planes as there are #men teaching kindergarten (as a share of the occupation).”
THIS.
“We need a massive […] effort to get men to move into jobs in the growing fields of health, education, administration, and literacy (HEAL), equivalent to the successful campaign to get women into STEM.”
“There are three pressing reasons to get more #men into #HEAL.”
“First, given the decline in traditional male occupations, men need to look to these sectors for jobs. Blue collar jobs are disappearing. There will be more STEM jobs, too — but these are much smaller occupations. #STEM accounts for only about 7% of all jobs, compared to 23% in HEAL.”
“The second reason […] is to help meet labor shortages in critical occupations. Almost half of all registered nurses are now over the age of 50. […] We face labor shortages in two of the largest and most important sectors of our economy — health care and #education. But we are trying to solve them with only half the workforce.”
“The third argument […] is to provide a better service to #boys and men. Many would prefer to be cared for by a man, especially in certain circumstances. Consider the case of a man in need of help using the bathroom in a hospital or care home, or the middle-aged man needing a therapist to help with his addiction to pornography, or the fatherless teenage boy needing help from a psychologist with their substance abuse. It is not ideal if most substance abuse counselors are women (76%) when most substance abusers are men (67%), or that most special education teachers are women (84%) when most students being referred to special education are male (64%).”
“Getting more men into HEAL occupations would be good for men, good for the professions, and good for clients — a win-win-win.”
I shall shut up about this topic at least for a while now, but for anyone out there still thinking that #MRA’s and other critics of mainstream #feminism and of the concepts of #patriarchy and #maleprivilege are some kind of delusional misogynists amplifying trifles for the sake of controversy: please spend a few minutes reviewing the data (not opinion — data) contained here:
“The U.S. and Russia agree: prepare #women and #children for safety; prepare #men for war. Women and children live; men die. #Maleprivilege?”
https://twitter.com/drwarrenfarrell/status/1497022731593797633
apropos:
“The heroism performed mainly by men (e.g. firemen) will be #gender neutralised (‘firefighters’) by the inclusion of a small minority of #women, whereas a much larger proportion of female perpetrators and male victims will be excluded from our highly gendered narratives and policies about sexual and domestic violence. Such cognitive distortions, we believe, are leading to a systematic exaggeration of the negative aspects of men and #masculinity within mainstream culture, and a minimisation of positive aspects. These embedded distortions could be having a significantly harmful impact on the psychological health of #boys and #men and therefore on our society as a whole.”
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-33/april-2020/gamma-bias-new-theory
A Spanish fishing boat sunk in the Atlantic. It carried 24 men. Only three survived. Ten died, and eleven are missing (presumably dead too). In thi...
Today, #February11, is UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, for “full and equal access and participation for women and girls in science”.
While it may be a laudable initiative in general, I’m here to report two little known facts:
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
