Because they are cowards.
I was doing some research for posting a comment on another thread and I decided to go a little deeper.
You know how feminicide is cited everywhere as some worrying problem that absolutely needs to be addressed? How women are dying left and right at the hands of men? How women are the biggest victims in our society? Well, I decided to check on the numbers and this is what I got:
In 2022, nearly 89,000 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide, marking the highest annual figure recorded in the past two decades.
Of these killings, approximately 48,800 were committed by intimate partners or family members, which constitutes about 55% of all female homicide victims. This means that more than 133 women and girls were killed every day by someone close to them. Source 1, Source 2
To this I raise a question: Who chose to be in those relationships? My goal is not to victim-blame, mind you, just to point an interesting fact: The same people who will tell you that these women were coerced and manipulated by their partners, will also tell you that women have a supernatural 'sixth sense' for detecting creepiness and bad vibes and this is the reason you are single - they can smell your 'bad personality'. Food for thought.
But that is not the highlight. This is:
Do you know how many men died of suicide in 2022 worldwide?
Over 500.000. Males represent 80% of the total number of suicides, amounting to roughly 100 men dying by suicide every day, over 36,000 annually in the US alone. Interestingly, indian males are the leading ethnicity in these US suicide rates. (I wonder why?)
Source 1, Source 2, Source 3
"The patriarchy killed them! Patriarchy hurts men too!" I said it before, and I will say it again: The patriarchy is dead. And it's never coming back. Gynocentrism pissed on its corpse and is now puppeteering it to make the real victims feel shame and to justify a group of already privileged people getting even more privilege. I call it the "Zombie Patriarchy". Yes, men were in 'power' about a century ago, but that changed. And if you are one of those who think "things were better back then", trust me, it was not. Men had - still do to some degree - this stupid notion of self-sacrifice being noble. And so they threw away their lives easily. For the women who would forget about them when they outlived their usefulness. For the countries who abandoned them in favor of supporting women because it became the most profitable zeitgeist. Men were tools. The difference from then and now is that they have no further use. The state can provide for women now. And what do you do with tools that you have no use for? You cast them out of your mind. Hence, average males are invisible.
Even when disenfranchised men and their struggles are noticed by women, it's for the wrong reasons. I have seen this pattern repeat itself many times, across cultures: "We need to do something about all those lonely men!" discourse, followed immediately by: "Because when men are lonely they get resentful, they turn to hate on women and spread misogyny!" This is the "empathetic" gender I keep hearing about. This is the extent of their 'empathy'; Men are only a concern when they become a threat that need to be dealt with. They don't care about you and your woes, they just care how you affect them.
So, whenever someone tries to tell you that "Misandry only hurts feelings, misogyny kills women", give them a little reminder of what hurt feelings are capable of. Spread the word, apparently this issue is - like every other male issue - invisible.
I was doing some research for posting a comment on another thread and I decided to go a little deeper.
You know how feminicide is cited everywhere as some worrying problem that absolutely needs to be addressed? How women are dying left and right at the hands of men? How women are the biggest victims in our society? Well, I decided to check on the numbers and this is what I got:
In 2022, nearly 89,000 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide, marking the highest annual figure recorded in the past two decades.
Of these killings, approximately 48,800 were committed by intimate partners or family members, which constitutes about 55% of all female homicide victims. This means that more than 133 women and girls were killed every day by someone close to them. Source 1, Source 2
To this I raise a question: Who chose to be in those relationships? My goal is not to victim-blame, mind you, just to point an interesting fact: The same people who will tell you that these women were coerced and manipulated by their partners, will also tell you that women have a supernatural 'sixth sense' for detecting creepiness and bad vibes and this is the reason you are single - they can smell your 'bad personality'. Food for thought.
But that is not the highlight. This is:
Do you know how many men died of suicide in 2022 worldwide?
Over 500.000. Males represent 80% of the total number of suicides, amounting to roughly 100 men dying by suicide every day, over 36,000 annually in the US alone. Interestingly, indian males are the leading ethnicity in these US suicide rates. (I wonder why?)
Source 1, Source 2, Source 3
"The patriarchy killed them! Patriarchy hurts men too!" I said it before, and I will say it again: The patriarchy is dead. And it's never coming back. Gynocentrism pissed on its corpse and is now puppeteering it to make the real victims feel shame and to justify a group of already privileged people getting even more privilege. I call it the "Zombie Patriarchy". Yes, men were in 'power' about a century ago, but that changed. And if you are one of those who think "things were better back then", trust me, it was not. Men had - still do to some degree - this stupid notion of self-sacrifice being noble. And so they threw away their lives easily. For the women who would forget about them when they outlived their usefulness. For the countries who abandoned them in favor of supporting women because it became the most profitable zeitgeist. Men were tools. The difference from then and now is that they have no further use. The state can provide for women now. And what do you do with tools that you have no use for? You cast them out of your mind. Hence, average males are invisible.
Even when disenfranchised men and their struggles are noticed by women, it's for the wrong reasons. I have seen this pattern repeat itself many times, across cultures: "We need to do something about all those lonely men!" discourse, followed immediately by: "Because when men are lonely they get resentful, they turn to hate on women and spread misogyny!" This is the "empathetic" gender I keep hearing about. This is the extent of their 'empathy'; Men are only a concern when they become a threat that need to be dealt with. They don't care about you and your woes, they just care how you affect them.
So, whenever someone tries to tell you that "Misandry only hurts feelings, misogyny kills women", give them a little reminder of what hurt feelings are capable of. Spread the word, apparently this issue is - like every other male issue - invisible.
