In 2016, there were 4,287 male suicides in the UK, that is about 76% of all suicides. Globally, around 80% of all suicide victims are men.

Men are more likely than women to die prematurely, and one in five men dies before the age of 65. Worldwide the age death gap is 7 years, on average.

Men are 97% of combat fatalities.

Men make up 94% of work suicides.

Men lose primary custody 68-88% of the time in divorces and fathers receive primary custody only 8-14%. Equal residential custody is granted in only 2-6% of the cases.

78% of homicide victims worldwide are men.

Men are over twice as likely to be victimized by strangers than women.

Men are 165% more likely to be convicted of a crime than women.

Men get 63% longer sentences than women - for the same offence.

Around 80% of the homeless are men globally and around 90% of U.K. homeless deaths are men.

Prostate cancer receives less than half the funding that breast cancer receives and has overtaken breast cancer in deaths in 2015 in the UK.

Between 2% - 10% of fathers are victims of paternity fraud.

One-third of all divorced fathers in the UK have lost custody of children.

94,000 fewer boys and men go to university every year than girls and women.

Women make 88% of all U.S. retail purchases. What's more privileged, earning money or spending money?

A lot of modern-day feminist rhetoric has been fuelled by the concept of a history of oppression. The idea that men had privilege and power over women, that they exercised it to their benefit and to the detriment of the oppressed. They voted, they rose to power, they excluded.

Men, as a group, had it good.

To illustrate the quality of life that many a man enjoyed in the not so distant past, let me leave you with a story:

Between the years 1890 and 1917, around 230.000 railroad workers were killed on the job. The "brakeman" had the most dangerous job of all.

At the time, trains were operated manually, and they needed to be stopped manually. The brakeman’s job was to stop four or five cars by hand.

The way they did that was by walking on top of the cars, turning a wheel, and putting the brakes on for each of the cars. Because momentum is one hell of a law of physics, brakemen were often thrown from the top of railroad cars to be crushed and maimed. (“Freight Trains,” Modern Marvels, The History Channel, 2006)

And this is not the only infrastructural marvel that was built - very much literally - on the backs of men. A simple glance at anything around you, from indoor plumbing to electrical lighting wears the stamp of the toil of men.

When there is a power outage in the middle of a snowstorm or a burst sewage pipe in the sweltering heat of summer - it will very probably be a man that will fix it. The almost imperceptibly smooth running of everything that protects, empowers and entertains us is being coordinated by an invisible army of men. You can see that as the price of privilege, but it's a heavy price indeed, as men make up 93% of work fatalities.

For all of this, I say: Thank you, men.