Today, November 19th, is International Men's Day. However, you could go to the streets and ask people when it is and probably not even one out of a thousand will know when it is. This is very interesting given how International Women's Day is known and celebrated, with dozens of parades and manifestations, all over the world. Probably most of you didn't know about this day until now (I just did two years ago). Men face problems such as:
And the list goes on, such us who gives up on studying both in college and university, fathers having it nearly impossible to have his kids when divorcing... To sume it up, a list of problems nobody seems to care about and should be talked more. Why is one DAY so glorified and the other is completely unknown? Feel free to share your ideas and reasons that could be behind this.
- A very high suicide rate (over 75% of them)
- A very high homelessness rate (over 78%)
- Most of the homicides are commited against men (over 69%)
- Workplace deaths (over 90% are men)
And the list goes on, such us who gives up on studying both in college and university, fathers having it nearly impossible to have his kids when divorcing... To sume it up, a list of problems nobody seems to care about and should be talked more. Why is one DAY so glorified and the other is completely unknown? Feel free to share your ideas and reasons that could be behind this.