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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)I have spent years trying to bring attention to issues that are problems for men. Partly for moral but partly for practical reasons. The gender gap in politics is catastrophic - for us. Only 31% of unmarried women voted for Romney, but 53% of married women did.
Why do women suddenly change their voting patterns when they marry? I have to think that a part of it is the openly hostile rhetoric directed at men by feminist organizations. Once women marry, they also have husbands and sons whose wellbeing is important to them, and are fooled by the rhetorical differences the respective parties take toward those men.
It'd be easier to convince men that the democratic party is on their side when people like the president don't describe a 3:2 bias toward women in college as "a great accomplishment".
Men commit suicide 5x more often than women. Men die of workplace injury 12x more often than women. Men die younger of every preventable cause. Men are more likely to be unemployed. Men suffer more mental illness. Men are more likely to be homeless. They are more likely to be victims of violence.
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When I (or anyone) bring up these topics, an entirely predictable group of people tell the poster to shut up, man up, and stop whining.
So lately, poster after poster have written self-serving OP's telling "the men of DU" to stop being dicks because the important thing about this site is that it does not pose any challenging questions to or about feminism.
Yeah, I'm ambivalent to swimsuit threads in GD because I think there are much more important things to discuss, such as why education is failing boys so abysmally. You want to raise hackles and cause consternation? Ask that question.
The swimsuit threads were passive aggressive and superficial flamefests because we can't talk about important shit.