A subject that I have laboured over for a lot of my life has been the crass stupidity of people when it comes to men's welfare.
This evening I came across the following article. It includes most of the arguments that I have expressed particularly in the last 30 years regarding the ridiculous opinions many people have regarding men's welfare. Welfare that is usually none existant but erroneously believed by many to be over catered for and particularly requiring catch up and compensatory correction by services for the opposite sex. When it is fueled by those blind to the huge elephants in the room I tend to overreact.
Let me state that having been an inaugural secretary of a fairly typical Australian Men's Shed, I was not impressed by the exclusivity of membership or lack of ethics and morals - particularly when most professed to being upstanding Christians.

Allow me to quote from the article by Rhiannon J. Davies in the commonspace.scot web site:

"Those that celebrate International Men’s Day point to high suicide rates, the fact that men are more likely to be homeless, the victim of violent crime, imprisoned and die prematurely – as issues to be addressed.

According to figures published by the National Records of Scotland, in 2017 the suicide rate for males was more than three times that for females. And while the overall number of suicides went down last year, it went up marginally for men.

A report produced by NHS Health Scotland earlier this year, titled ‘Social isolation and loneliness in Scotland’, stated that: “Men, particularly those over 50, appear to be more vulnerable to social isolation than women. Scottish survey data suggest that men are less likely to report high levels of social support or frequent social contact.” And the number of men aged over 65 who currently live alone UK-wide is 911,000."

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