Men have always had serious problems. They're not new.

Arguably, men have it better in regards to the problems they face than they ever have.

Think about it.

Workplace safety is better than it's ever been. More often than not, safety accidents are caused by reckless disregard to safety rules. I was working at a place once where someone got decapitated because someone else was doing donuts on the factory floor with a forkift. He was high. That didn't have to happen and it shouldn't have happened.

It didn't happen because the job was dangerous either. It happened because someone was acting foolish and reckless and made it dangerous.

Men are afraid of being drafted. The draft hadn't been used during my lifetime. We have a volunteer army. Men have had half a century to challenge the legality of the draft. Instead, they're more concerned about throwing women under the bus to be drafted too rather than ending the draft. That's telling.

Men are lonely and suicidal. But they don't value soft skills. They value being a Man™, so they want a need a social life provided for them by someone else's labor. But because they don't value relationships, whatever they get is going to be marginal at best and they could lose it at any time. They never built it themselves, they're riding someone else's coattails.

Male on male violence. IPV and sexual assault of men and boys. That's been around for years and years too. But thanks to feminism, it's no longer taboo to talk about these things.

The talking about them is new. But those problems have been around for years. There's space now, to start wedging into and leveraging pressure against these issues. Men just need to do it.

But will they?

Right now, it's not looking like it. There's so e really good work being done and I'm not diminishing that. Theres just a whole lot more resistence to and dismissal of it among men at large as well as an active counter campaign that is gaining steam.