tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
Happy #InternationalMensDay! This year focused on “better relations between #men & #women”.
In the 🇺🇸 #US, in 2021, #men represent only ~41% of #college students (source). #Women have been the majority of four-year college graduates ever since 1982.
Yet what is the debate and the media reaction (if any)? To denounce that “men with college degrees have become so cocky that they’re ruining romance for their female counterparts”.
(When in university, it was less than 20% females at my college, yet somehow at the time I missed all the headlines about those arrogant women playing hard to get…)
https://nypost.com/2021/11/02/men-with-golden-penis-syndrome-ruining-romance-for-women/
80% of victims of the ✝️ #CatholicChurch in 🇫🇷 #France since the 1950s are #boys (mostly #men by now).
👦👦👦👦👧
News article:
- Headline: “girls”, not “boys”.
- Focus and first sentences are on female victims.
A sign of hope, though:
“Female #pedophilia exists and unfortunately the media never talk about it.”
https://news.yahoo.com/nuns-raped-girls-crucifixes-female-110940545.html
“Boys form the vast majority of all short suspensions (75.4%) and long suspensions (73.9%). […] This appalling reporting bias in the article ignores not only the predominate suspension of #boys from Australian schools, but the impact of this on the disengagement of boys from a hostile and misandrist Australian education system, reflected in the year 7-12 retention rate for female students of 88.0%, compared to 79.3% for boys (again based on NSW government schools 2019 data).”
“This erasure of boys from an analysis that should have acknowledged the extreme gendered nature of exclusion from #schools is consistent with the erasure of men and boys from other extremely gendered issues (suicide prevention, health, family) by ideologically biased academics, policy makers and service providers, and the erasure and abandonment of men and boys from humanitarian programs run by the UN, WHO, UNICEF and NGOs (i.e. Gates Foundation).”
“So, when we see […] the decreasing enrolments of young #men in universities and colleges, we must be aware, not just that the #misandry of our #education systems begins from pre-school education and continues through-out boys education experience, but that this is just one part of a larger endemic trend of erasing men and boys from analyses that should be identifying their urgent needs. An erasure that pretends issues that predominately impact men and boys are #gender neutral, or paradoxically impact women and girl more.”
“At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, #women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%.”
“U.S. colleges and #universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.”
“This #educationgap, which holds at both two- and four-year colleges, has been slowly widening for 40 years.”
“After six years of college, 65% of women in the U.S. who started a four-year university in 2012 received diplomas by 2018 compared with 59% of #men during the same period.”
“In the next few years, two women will earn a #college degree for every man, if the trend continues.”
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/09/u-s-a-facts-of-the-day-2.html
There’s a huge imbalance in #workdeaths, yes. In my country (🇪🇸 #Spain), last year there were 751 work-related deaths, of which 696 were men (source: last available official report by Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social).
- 1,165% more #men than #women die at work.
- Men are >12× more likely to die at work than women.
- Of all people who die at #work, >92% are men.
/cc @namark
@tripu I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with you based on this, but the work deaths stat was kind of a shock when I first heard it. iirc men are...
“Let’s combat the pay gap! Sexual harassment! Glass ceiling! STEM inequality! Ignored heroines! Rape culture! Sexist language! Pressure to be pretty! Down with the patriarchy!”
“Uh… What about male lifespan, work casualties, military deaths, the draft, parental fraud, traffic accidents, suicide victims, homicide victims, homelessness, imprisonment, drug abuse, family courts, work hours, concrete floor, educational attainment? Shouldn’t we at least talk about that too?”
“Yeah, that’s all the patriarchy! See? It’s a system that oppresses both #women and men. We feminists work to dismantle it. It’s in men’s best interest, too. Aren’t you a #feminist?”
“Sure I am — if it’s about equal treatment of both sexes under the law, and about removing any discrimination on the basis of sex.”
“Then you’re against the #patriarchy, too.”
“Well, I would prefer a word that is less divisive and doesn’t suggest that #men are the problem… I don’t think ‘patriarchy’ really means what you just said. But if we have to unite under that banner… so be it! Down with the patriarchy! Down with sexism!”
“Well said! See? We’re in this together! Let’s combat the pay gap! Sexual harassment! Glass ceiling! STEM inequality! Ignored heroines! Rape culture! Sexist language! Pressure to be pretty!”
“Wait. What?”
Kind reminder that in #Afghanistan, in addition to girls & women being killed, raped, tortured, beaten, robbed, oppressed and terrorised, there are also #boys & #men being killed, raped, tortured, beaten, robbed, oppressed and terrorised.
You wouldn’t know by #mainstreammedia or #socialnetworks!
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
