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1 min readSep 9, 2024

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Or perhaps there's been outreach for decades which has been rebuffed and dismisses by men for half all that time.

These public safety and health programs have to be funded. That means they have to show results or the funding gets yanked by the electorate, the donors, and/or the government.

If focusing on women because women are interested in improving their lives and their health gets those results, and focusing on men gets you nothing, then you focus your efforts on women or you lose your program.

This isn't a conpiracy to hurt men's feelings and advantage women over men. It's just how money and public services work in general.

You HAVE TO get men to CARE (know they need) first and WANT the programs and services in order for them to exist and sustain themselves. Just like you have to get people to care about having (need) and want a bridge or a dam on order for it to be built. It's no different, really.

Unfortunately, far more men than not are still too wrapped up in concerns about performative manhood over their own health and wellbeing so you don't see enough of that CARE about having and WANTING in order for there to be a shift in public spending, investment from the monied looking to clean up their image, or a general public clammor enough to get create, fund, and staff some more androcentric programs on reproductive health.

Maybe when we've run out of virgins, but I won't hold my breath.

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