"Men dont have issues. You have your rights!"

This is a common stance on this websites and in fact entire countries, but it can be easily explained.

There is a big double stabdard as to what is considered an issue. Typically, an issue isnt an issue unless the right group is effected. People who have visited our blog before will recall these commom arguments.

* Boko Haram specifically murdered boys in schools in horrible ways for a long time. Media coverage was minimal, if not non existant. Males specifically being set on fire, shot, and overall murdered horribly was not made until a big issue. But once they began killing the boys in horrible ways AND kidnapping the girls, it was suddenly made into an issue, commonly recognized on social media, even acknowledged by the forst lady and miltiple American Celebrities. However, only the girls got recognized as victims. Most people didnt know much about the boys, and a lot of them didnt care.

* Rape is considered a horrible crime, but typically only for women. For at least half of the worlds population, rape is not a crime that women can commit by definition nor a crime men could be victims of by women. Even in countries that have (recently) made the crime gender neutral, they still typically treat it different. Women who rape and sexually assault males, even young boys, still often get only a fraction of the punishment that a man would, as it is seen as less of a problem. Unfortunately, most of what is considered rape for women is not considered so for men. In fact, recognized feminist Amy Schumer admitted to having sex with a guy she admitted was blackout drunk, drifting in and out of conciousness. If the gender of the victim had been female, she might have considered it rape.

*Domestic violence is considered something only men commit and knly women can be victims of. However, dispite many governments not funding genderd studies on males, it has been found that a majority of men who are abused by women do not report it. Additionally, men who are abused by women are more likely to be arrested themselves than to have the woman arrested when calling the police. That gives men more reason not to report being a victim of abuse. This creates the assumption that men are more likely to abuse or that it is a womens issue. We now know that domestic violence is gender neutral in victims and assaulters. However this is not reflected in services for victims. Roughly all of the help for victims go to women specifically. Governement funding, UN funding and organizations, abuse shelters, feminist support, ect.

*Men are often assumed criminals by people and police, leading to unfair arrests, longer sentencing, higher likelihood of arrest, and even a lower chance at probation than women in the same situation. All but the last are also experienced by black people in the US at a lower extent. However, it is not considered a problem for men dispite it being recognized as a problem for black people.

This is a concise list, there is much more that can be added. The point is that it isnt that men do not have the same or similar struggles, it is that they arent recognized as problems. It isnt that men dont have issues or that they “have all of thier rights”, it is that we often do not care when what we deem as bad, oppressive, or criminal, happens to males. It is based moreso on ignorance of the situation or disinterest in thevictims based on gender, which is misandry.

It is unfortunate and probably wont change anytime soon.