"Men also need a support network to.. with someone like yourself who can sit and listen at the worst times in a mans life.
My friend could not type last night for crying, but he listened to someone who understood and cared.
Men have feelings to but we bottle them up."
Sadly, that is very true. Men are known to cry in the night, into pillows, in the solitary confinement of their homes, etc. As long as no one else ever knows then they still fit the role model society has conditioned them to have. In extreme cases, social conditioning leads some despondent, desperate men to the door way of suicide where many pass through. 75% of suicides are men. Other men would rather get "tough or die" as role conditioning has taught them to play to the bitter end. "On top of the world Ma," was a line spoken by Jimmy Cagney in an old Hollywood movie. After a shoot out with Police he "ended it all" in a fiery death scene. Decades after that movie, allusions to such deaths are daily sensationalized for ratings on local news shows. Such suggestive imagery is commonplace and endless, while positive male role models become fewer and fewer thanks in large part to anti-Patriarchal, political correctness.
Additionally,
# Men are 99.999% of all combat deaths and injuries (historically) - DOD
# Men are over 97% of all combat deaths and injuries (currently) - DOD
# Men are 76% of homicides - DOJ
# Men are 94% of work place deaths and injuries - NIOSH
# Men are 75% of suicides - CDC
# Men are 93% of the prison population. (America has the highest rate of incarceration in the world having passed Russia).
# Over 60% of the incarcerated have no High School diploma.
# Of the top ten leading causes of death by disease men lead in all categories in all age ranges (except one).
# Men are the majority of the homeless
Yet in a modern, progressive state like California we have 31 women's commissions and none for men. In California today a returning male war veteran experiencing domestic violence is ineligible for services in the vast majority of domestic violence shelters.
In a modern progressive city like Los Angeles we have an Office of Women's Health, but none for men.
California has over 50 women's studies programs on college and university campuses, teaching hundreds or thousands of classes from the gender feminist perspective, enumerating the oppressions of women, but not one from a masculinist perspective anywhere that I know of. Additionally, these programs fund internships that train people to lobby and advocate for gender feminist women's issues without any effort to do the same for males from a masculiniest prespective.
Today in CA Family court injustice for men is a rampant condition, and a lengthy story.
The gender inequities for men in California society are glaring and despicable. The story is much the same in other states and countries, and throughout the rest of Western society. Shame on all California elected officials for shunning the valid needs of males within their responsibility.
MEN's COMMISSION NOW!
