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The October 2017 TED Talk above may be the best one I’ve ever seen — “Meeting the Enemy: A feminist comes to terms with the Men’s Rights movement” — featuring documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye, who produced the controversial 2016 film “The Red Pill,” see trailer below. Interestingly, the Tomatometer reading for “The Red Pill” was only 29% (based on 7 reviews) while the Audience Score was 91% based on more than 1,200 user ratings with an average rating of 4.6/5.

From the TED talk above:

There is no denying that there are many human rights issues that uniquely or disproportionately affect men: Paternity fraud uniquely affects men

The United State selective service in the case of a draft uniquely affects men

Workplace deaths disproportionately affects men (93%)

War deaths overwhelmingly men

Suicide overwhelmingly men

Sentencing disparity

Life Expectancy

Child Custory/Child Support

False rape allegations

Criminal court bias/Misandry

Failure to launch

Boys falling behind in education

Homelessness

Veteran’s Issues

Infant Male Genital Mutilation

Lack of parental choice once a child is conceived

Lack of resources for male victims of domestic violence So many issues that are heartbreaking if you are the victim or if you love someone who is the victim of any one of these issues. These are men’s issues, and most people can’t name one. Because they think men have all the rights, they have all the power and privilege. But these issues deserve to be acknowledged, they deserve care, attention, and motivation for solutions.

MP: Kudos to Cassie Jaye for her courageous efforts to address a very important issue that is so frequently overlooked and discounted. I hereby nominate Cassie Jaye for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for her attention to a human rights issue that almost everybody else is completely ignoring.