…are men being discouraged from showing sensitivity and awareness about their experiences because it implies insensitivity and a lack of awareness towards women?

Loneliness and isolation increase the likelihood of mortality by 26%. The effects have been compared to the impact of well-known risk factors such as obesity and smoking […] there must be open debate and a rigorous risk/benefit impact study undertaken prior to any future [lockdown]

This OECD research identifies gender inequality, but only when it goes against women. That’s because they literally don’t measure the inequalities that go against men.

According to the publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, the Handbook of Male Psychology is, with over 82,000 chapter downloads and almost 100 citations, one of their “best-performing titles within the psychology list, and at Palgrave Macmillan in general

London Transport trains are used by people of all kinds from all over the world, including ordinary people from cultures where staring is not seen as threatening e.g. Spain

…a review of 58 research studies conducted between 1978 and 2021 found that masculinity […] is, in fact, linked to lower depression

…she projects the distorted animus onto her male partner and ‘falls in hate’ with him; she over-interprets neutral events as negative.

do we want our laws to be built on these assumptions, or would you rather that Parliament decides which assumptions our laws are built on?

The APA has been criticised for the view of masculinity in their 2018 guidelines, so it is very welcome news that the mission statement of the relevant part of the APA is no longer so negative.

The campaign begins with a focus on the Northern Ireland Executive’s recent call for views on the development of a specific strategy to tackle violence against women and girls. We are calling on the Executive to complement this work with a male victims strategy. 

…lack of a consistent definition of what constitutes a false rape allegation, as well as variations in recording practices by police and others in the CJS, make accurate assessment of the true extent of such allegations very difficult.

What are the facts about sperm quality? Well, a debate on this topic was featured in the December 2021 edition of the leading fertility journal in the US, Fertility & Sterility. One side argued that sperm rates are in decline worldwide, and the other side argued there was no real evidence for this