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What do you think is the single most important issue facing men, globally, today?
Are the global issues different from American or Western ones?
How do the issues men are facing differ from the issues facing women?
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Jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Did I mention jobs? Oh, yeah, jobs.
The most pressing problem for men today is the creep of Marxism/Socialism into the cultures of many countries as a viable political system. It destroys families and relationships and centralizes power under dangerously few people. Political power quickly trumps the rule of law and, as men, its our duty to stop it before freedom is some ancient notion from the past. I’m stunned by the degreee to which we are willing to ignore the history of these failed utopias based on trumpoed-up class warfare.
That isn’t a problem in 99% of countries. The days of the USSR and soviet era communism are essentially over. Trumped up class warfare? Do elaborate, please. I hope you’re not referring to the assertion that the wealthy in industrialized countries pay slightly more in taxes in order to help their fellow countrymen. I would consider that patriotism. Or was it not patriotism that defeated the Nazis?
“The most pressing problem for men today is the creep of Facism/Capitalism into the cultures of many countries as a viable political system. It destroys families and relationships and centralizes power under dangerously few people. Political power quickly trumps the rule of law and, as men, its our duty to stop it before freedom is some ancient notion from the past. I’m stunned by the degreee to which we are willing to ignore the history of these failed utopias based on trumpoed-up class warfare.”
i made one small change and it seems to read well. I think we differ in our opinions of which class is most actively waging war.
Here you go Collin. Thanks for the post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
That was both an extraordinarily simplified position and one that doesn’t really recognize much of the reality of the 20th century. He talks about Einstein in his lab, but he doesn’t talk about the Manhattan project, he doesn’t talk about the internet, computing, medical research, and all the other things that government financing have done for the world. You like GPS? How about satellites? Fiber Optic technology? Computers? Jet Aircraft? Government money made these, and millions of other things, possible. Unfettered capitalism is cruel, and unfair, and harsh, and moves unhaltingly toward a feudal system. The question is where is the balance between government participation in the economy, protecting and providing certain things for its citizens, and keeping the gravitational pull of money in check. Money begets money. It will, if left alone, collect almost entirely in the hands of a select few. It is the responsibility of government to keep that from happening.
What do you think is the single most important issue facing men, globally, today?
Mental health. As men we are not only denied support by our peers (male and female) but we deny ourselves support under the idea that we are so valuable when working for something, doing something, that to stop to take care of ourselves is just wrong.
Are the global issues different from American or Western ones?
They may be in different quantities but they don’t seem to actually differ much. You have single fathers in Japan coming together (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fs20120612a3.html#.T-EdGkeHinw). You have folks in India questioning the silencing of male victims of domestic violence (http://www.saveindianfamily.org/articles/blogs/1052-domestic-violence-claims-170000-husbands.html).
How do the issues men are facing differ from the issues facing women?
Sometimes I think that most of the issues that face men and women are a lot a like, just in different quantities or in direct relation to each other.
Increasingly lack of education, leading to lack of jobs, leading to hopelessness and despair, leading to crime, drugs, fatherless children, incarceration, etc.
This is, almost word-for-word, the post I was going to leave.
Also, get out of my brain.
There are no jobs for the educated, either. I’m sure this was a problem in the older generations, but there aren’t enough good jobs to go around as it is now. Just throwing men in college won’t fix anything as long as they have to compete with some Chinese slave-in-all-but-name, who gets chained to a desk and housed in a dorm by his bosses, and gets ‘suicided’ if he complains.
The change in this probably has to come from women. Hypergamy can’t continue in a system where too many men are seen as ‘ineligible’. Or, rather, the system can’t really continue if it’s full of angry, jobless, sexually frustrated men.
Jobs, financial abortion rights, I guess it all depends on country. Conscription for some areas, access to education in others.
I’d say the biggest issue is a decent access to a FUTURE, whether that be good jobs, good education, ability to opt out of parenthood, etc.
Legally established reproductive rights for men exist in no country that I am aware of.
The left in US and Europe is just as staunchly anti-choice as the right.
The most pressing issue? This is tough, because they are all so intertwined.
Misinformed man myths seem to be a large problem. Psychologists prove over and over again that a lot of what the media and feminism claim to be facts about male psychology are in fact myths.
It’s like, they only look at men’s behavior on the surface and put thoughts into our heads, words into our mouths. And more often than not, it makes men feel like criminals or inadequate as a gender in some way, and tries to rationalize why we should fear men.
They’ve proven that men are actually MORE emotionally aroused than women, are hit harder by emotional trauma, fall in love harder and faster, and lose more social stability and support when a breakup occurs.
These new findings tell so much about the behavior of men, and that men’s behavior in history and today is not based around some notion of fundamental power-mongering and woman-subjugating.
For instance:
-Many “womanizers” may become such because they have been denied emotional closeness in the past. I know I’ve seen it. Guy can’t open up to his friends, so he tries his girlfriend, and is viewed as unstable. They give up the emotional connection, so women just become pieces of meat.
-Men may constantly struggle for power not out of hate for everyone else or greed, but because they have a lot more to lose should they fail. “Jill gets welfare, Jack becomes homeless.” Powerlessness is not greeted with support or sympathy. Men make up the vast majority of homeless. And all people seem to think is “get a job”. Whilst a woman in the same situation would get a local support group.
-Hypersexual men being hailed? Maybe that’s because winning a woman is a feat. Relationships are taught to revolve around the man wooing the woman.
-Hypersexual women being sluts? Maybe that’s because in this system, the man is expected to woo the woman, and the woman expects to be appropriately wooed. We’re always taught and shown the beauty of the female form, and the awkwardness of the male form. It only makes sense that women would get the majority of sexual attention. Having a lot of sex could be seen as taking advantage of this system. Female subservience has little to do with it.
People just assume that men don’t have REAL problems, and so any man who talks about men’s issues is seen as a privileged whiner. Maybe more people listen to us when we are CEO’s or politicians, who represent the minority of men. But women get the majority ear when it comes to problems. And these myths are partially responsible for silencing our help or need of help.
Being disposable, I think – in terms of death/war, family, jobs, school, etc.
I think Erika Napoletano is especially spectacular at pulling this off. She’ll talk about some awesome/shitty/outrageous that happened to her or someone she knows and leads with what happened and then shows you what you can learn from it.