Okay, @unbias123, I'll bite.
Pratchet- more men than women die in wars.
In the field, sure. Civilians, nope. And women have been fighting really hard to be allowed to fight, so that's a fairly redundant point, isn't it. "Women banned from dangerous profession don't run the risks of that profession." Astonishing.
Men underperform in education.
Fun fact: women have always done better at school at primary level. Then social conditioning kicked in and men overtook them. For that reason, grammar school places used to be weighted at the 11 plus in favour of boys. Nobody made much of a fuss about this. The only time people began really expressing alarm was when women overtook men... even though that doesn't play through to career level success. Men are disproportionately represented at the senior levels of all professions relative to numbers, including nursing and teaching. I agree that there needs to be a look at why white boys, especially, do worse. And there is. It's a key aspect to teaching now, according to primary teacher friends. It's not something nobody cares about or notices. It's a big deal.
More men are imprisoned than women.
They commit more crime. Socialisation has a large role to play there, I absolutely agree, and it's a way society lets men down. But I think that's another way misogyny harms men as well as women. Having said that, men are more likely to be jailed than women for the same offences, because women are seen as less inherently threatening than men. It's less notable for non-violent offences, but still present as an issue. And it does need to be addressed, no question. But social attitudes are slow to change, and women are also better at presenting as penitent. Years of socialisation.
The suicide rate is higher amongst men.
This is actually really close to my heart. Huge, huge issue, male suicide; one that affects my family directly, and one I'm involved in campaigning about, as it goes. The reasons are numerous but it seems men tend to choose more violent (and effective) methods, but more, men feel less able to admit to weakness and vulnerability, and to reach out for support. Women get a lot of direct, overt, spoken emotional support from their friends in a way that is rarer amongst men. That, again, is another way our culture harms both men and women with gender stereotypes.
Men are more likely to be the victim of a violent crime.
At the hands of other men, not women. Male violence affects everyone, because most people aren't violent. But when they are, they're overwhelmingly more likely to be male.
Men have a shorter life expectancy
That gap's actually closing, and the stats indicate equality will be reached by 2032. Brilliant news.
It's believed to be because cuts in smoking and drinking have disproportionately affected men. Same with RTA. And male-presenting heart disease is far better treated now, too.
and on and on.
Like what? Genuinely interested if you are.
Using a minuscule number of unrepresentative males at the top of a miniscule number of elite fields is misguided.
Men are hugely over-represented at the top of every single field. That's just statistically obvious, and also obvious to anyone with eyes. Parliament, the judiciary, the police, all the professions, business, finance and industry. The more senior roles are overwhelmingly held by men. That's neither miniscule numbers of men, nor miniscule numbers of fields. It's all of them. Even in eg primary teaching, men are over-represented in senior management as opposed to their numbers in the job. Pretending anything else is true is just daft.
And women are also grossly under-represented in every aspect of the media, from movies and TV to journalism. The world reflected back to us is made very largely and mainly by men. Denial of that fact is lying.
Rather like claiming to be against misogyny, then posting nothing but.
@ravenmum I misunderstood you then, and I apologise. I've just started to really notice that women police one another on being fair to men, in a way men don't one another on being fair to women, relatively recently. I think I mentioned that it was what I did fairly consistently myself in the past as well. Apologies if that was poorly expressed as well as wrongly directed.