Is there much coverage of men's issues, especially relationships, emotions and mental health in the media?

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Just had a discussion with dp, who thinks that although it's great and important that women's issues are now receiving attention in the media, men's mental health and other male issues are less prominent.

He doesn't mean males in the media in general (of which there are undeniably many!), but feels males are still expected not to talk about mental health, emotions, relationships, etc. and that more emotionally sensitive or vulnerable males feel invisible.

I said I'd seen lots of articles about males and emotions. Personally I feel discussion of mental health seems to get turned towards men and how they don't talk about it (though all the men I know do!).

I wonder if there's anywhere to find statistics on this. It might just be bias (I look out for such articles as I have a pre teen son).

Don't be silly. Women aren't marching and protesting for more men's rights. If men commit suicide at a higher rate, perhaps they should tackle toxic masculinity.

To be fair to men, the current mainstream acceptable feminism, the libfem Emma Watson type of simpering “let’s centre and please the menfolk” type of feminism is what they see and have come to expect. You know, the type where women still have the boot firmly on their neck and have vague hopes for equality whilst saying “but it’s fine, you can still buy women’s bodies for sex, you can still have your violent porn”.

It must be a shock to the system for some men to learn that (shock horror) some women arrange whole campaigns that do not involve men or their needs. I know, how very misandrist of those pesky women!

It doesn’t matter how we would do it.

It’s not on women to solve the problems of men. We’ve been having to figure out our own shit for hundreds of years with men actively working against us. So you need to go away and fix your own problems.

Nope.

I’m not remotely interested in getting into a conversation with you. I will not debate feminism with a man and you have no say in that.

Stop asking women to fix you.

inks can post what she likes where she likes

Wow. Your male sense of entitlement is strong. You should maybe start by working on that.

You’re acting as if I and other women owe you something, as if you have the right to demand answers from us. But you don’t.

See, you’re trying to dominate me and getting angry because I won’t let you.
You’re even trying to control how and where I speak.

Did...did you actually try the Be Kind gambit?

Oh dear.

Inks is on a forum for fruitful debate, but Inks is actively denouncing the fruitful debate

inks is deffo down for fruitful debate…she just doesn’t think she’ll get that from you

Apologies for speaking for you inks

I appreciate the backup x

Indeed. Sort yourselves out, men. I used to get enraged passing those NHS prostate cancer billboards from a few years ago addressing women, telling them to get their husbands to have their prostates checked. I mean, obviously, I get that men avoid health checks disproportionately compared to women, but male health is not women’s responsibility — imagine NHS billboards addressing men, telling them their wives’ cervical health checks are their responsibility.

Non-scientific but i would google the same helath term, say, heart attack, adding women / men / blank and compare the number of news results in the last year.

I've seen this used to prove this kind of point before.

You could go further - how many result for erectile dysfunction vs vaginal dryness

Have fun and post the results!

You're trolling now right? You have to be

Many women are sick and tired of being told to Be Kind. Particularly when we're supposed to Be Kind to people who aren't kind to us and are trampling over our rights

@SunnyHiker how old are you? Genuine question. Can’t work out whether you’re very young or wilfully ignorant