The media frames almost every worrying social measure in terms of people, women or children. Rarely do you hear the data just for men or boys. Two generation of journalists have lectured on how to think about society by feminist academia.
For example you hear about the glass ceiling but there is also glass floor in the cellar. You will find more homeless men down there than women. Boys and girls commit suicide at roughly equal rates as children but the rate begins to diverge in the teen years. The average suicide rate for men is 3 to 4 times that of women, and it increases with age. I think it is at least 10 times higher for men over age 80. But of course these inequalities reveal nothing significant about the status of men in society. And even if they did, we first need to get more women into math. Harry On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > John Berry <berry.joh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Rather the fact that men have continued to be seen as more disposable is >> in large part because of the focus of the rights women have, with a >> simultaneous subjugation of men. >> > > I see no sign of that in Japan or the U.S. On the contrary, in both > countries more money is spent on medical problems that primarily affect > men. Heart attacks in men are more often treated with intense care; women > are told to go home. Traditionally, a Japanese family would feed and care > for a boy more than a girl if they had to choose. In the 1930s they were > sometimes forced to sell their daughters into sexual slavery. They would > not do anything so harsh to a son. The law did not allow it, as far as I > know. My 80-year-old widowed mother-in-law used to climb up on a steep roof > to fix the tiles because, she said, "I wouldn't want my son to do such a > dangerous thing." > > (Mind you, that drove my brother-in-law crazy. "For crying out loud DON'T > DO THAT mom!!!" That was typical of the self abnegation of 20th century > Japanese women. Passive-aggressive behavior was not invented by Jewish > mamas.) > > Needless to say, there is zero sign that men are being subjugated in > Japan. I don't see any sign of it in the U.S. either. It sounds like > someone's overwrought imagination, or some nitwit who thinks taking out the > garbage once in a while is being oppressed. Or like one of these Christian > fundamentalists who thinks *he* is being oppressed because some guy wants > to marry some other guy in another part of town. > > There is plenty of feminism these days in both counties. > > - Jed > >
