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Kresge's avatar

Why I subscribe, for the humanity.

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Tim Pallies's avatar

One approach that might help would be to have less wars and less soldiers. The suicide rate among veterans is horrifying. Unless of course that group would behave the same regardless of military experience.

In any case, I'd prefer less soldiers, and treating them better.

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Petty Rage Machine's avatar

It’s embarrassing how clueless people are about the problem with “men.” Every solution they propose is a new take on 300,000 years of evolution.

“We want men… but not with all that testosterone, the killer instinct, uncontrolled bouts of rage; ummm mmm, and the desire to want to plant their “seed” in every female they see. “

“How do we get those men?”

“We have them. They’re called women.“

This isn’t a fucking puzzle that needs to be solved. Go outside. Pick up an axe. Chop a tree down. Go to Home Depot, buy a reciprocating saw, cut random things.

Stop being such pussies.

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polistra's avatar

This is definitely a first step. The next step is economic, not medical.

Labour should take its own name literally and push HARD to reindustrialize. Give up ESG entirely and bring back the industries that moved to India and China over the last 40 years. Britain was the LEADER in electronics and computing and engineering until 1970.

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Thom Davis's avatar

Let's see if the new strategy receives some real funding before getting too carried away.

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Zaid Jilani's avatar

🤞

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John's avatar

The “solution” will only make the problems of men worse because the left wing ecosystem across most western countries have not reconciled with the hyper feminine mindset that plagued their worldview & making the lives of men worse.

One’s worldview can allow them to acknowledge a glaring problem( Ex. Men are not doing well) but get the solution completely wrong (Ex. Men need become more like women).

This is the mindset of the British Left as well as the Democrats.

Until Women are not seen as the ideal group above men and Men are not treated as broken women then no left wing solution will better men.

A real solution involves bringing the sexes together and acknowledging how we complement each other strengthens and weakness over the sexual supremacy found within our institutions and their controllers.

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mark wells's avatar

Actually, we just want people to shut the fk up and mind their business. Special attention is exactly what most men don't want.

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Eric's avatar

There are some good thoughts here, but I’m not sure that an ‘office of men’s health’ established by democrats and staffed by swarthmore graduates is going to be well received in the manner Zaid imagines. It will be roughly analogous to the way that, say, FEMA, an organization dedicated to providing emergency management, is perceived by many as an instrument of oppression that is conspiring to put everyone in camps. In this case, we’re combining Americans’ innate paranoia about big government with our ambient cultural anxieties about gender politics. Just think about how Tucker Carlson will cover it.

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Charlotte's avatar

This too, is identity politics.

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Steven's avatar

I'll be surprised if this bill is anything more than a signaling stunt dead on arrival. One of the most reliable ways to tell if a bill is actually intended to pass is if the originator makes a point of getting bipartisan sponsorship for it before presenting it. If they don't (or can't), that usually means it contains poison pills and the real intent is just to put the other side on record as having voted against something that "sounds" good so they can use that in attack ads next election cycle.

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Felton's avatar

Some observations on gender issues in the UK relative to the US:

In general the UK have been more balanced, however in some circles there does seem to be some degree of the type of hysteria we had during the era of the Rolling Stone "A rape on campus" story.

Their overemphasis on the service economy and failure to invest in infrastructure and manufacturing works against men in general. Salaries for engineers are pitiful.

Academically inclined boys will do better in their system than ours as they have avoided grading practices that penalize boys while we have deliberately embraced those practices. They also talk about the impact of different grading practices openly. This is Richard Reeves weak point, he has not been prepared to challenge these practices or bring them up for discussion.

However British schools are structured so that everyone has to progress at the same pace. If you not ready for AP level work when you hit 11th grade, you follow a technical track. This penalizes students who may benefit from a slightly slower pace, a group more likely to be disadvantaged boys. A very underappreciated strength of the American system is the ability to stay on an academic path at a slower rate of progression.

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Kabir's avatar

You’re joking right?

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

The best, and most cost-effective way to equalize the longevity rate of males and females is to shorten the lives of women. That's such a no-brainer, I can't imagine that won't be in the cards, albeit, under some less than forthright, euphemism. The assisted dying law, recently passed will do its bit in the service of this worthy goal.

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