It's wild to me how often people send me links that counter their point directly or make mine for me. Presumably because they haven't bothered to read past the fold.

The Forbes article states that 55% of households, the man earns the most money. vs 16% of women. So as I said, "In relationships, men are more likely to be the earning most of the income and women are more likely to be doing the majority of the caregiving and household tasks."

Th UN press release states that "women and children accounted for the majority of those adversely affected by armed conflict." They never specify what they mean by "adversely affected." But they don't mean "dead" apparently, based on the other statistics I provided. But isn't it clear that if we bundled in children with men, then men and children would account for the majority of those adversely affected by armed conflict?

Men and women make up around 50% of the population each. And everybody is adversely affected by war. So if you add children to either group, you discover that that group is the most “adversely affected.” But again, I'd argue quite strongly that the most adverse affect of war is death. Often excruciating. Men wildly disproportionately suffer this particular adverse affect.

I think most men do want their parters, daughters, etc. to have the same freedoms as they do. Although some of those freedoms are difficult. If you have an idea that will make men and women equally vulnerable to sexual violence or unwanted pregnancy, for example, I'm all ears. But I don't think there is one.

But some men also want to talk about the issues they face. And no, women absolutely do not hear them. Because any time it's even suggested that men have problems too, as is beautifully evidenced by some of the comments on this article (and I'm not talking specifically about yours here) a chorus of voices arrive to express their disgust at the idea of showing empathy to men. It immediately becomes a competition of "well, look what women have to deal with!!" or “well, some men are rapists so all of you are culpable!”

I see women complaining all the time that some men do this on articles about women's issues. I agree with the women doing the complaining. It's just therefore quite annoying to see women behaving in exactly the same ways as the men they're complaining about.