Completing Education
There are over 3 million less men than women enrolled in college. Women also graduate at higher rates than men at every level from high school through college.
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Homicide Overrepresentation
Globally men make up nearly 80% of all homicide victims. Around 90% of homicides were committed by men as well.
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Infant Circumcision
Men in America are circumcised at an alarming rate during infancy. This is nonconsensual and unnecessary. There is little to no benefit in infants but the risk can be up to FATAL injury. We all deserve to make choices for our OWN BODIES. Circumcision can be done at any point in a man's life. We can wait until men can consent.
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Mental Health Treatment
Men are less likely to seek professional help to treat their mental Health, often due to societal norms.
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Misandry on the Rise
It is hard to read social media these days without seeing large numbers of people bashing men in general. A notable example is #KAM (Kill All Men) a trend saying all men should die usually in reference to specific sexual assault cases. Men speaking out against this hashtag often are met with hate claiming they are insecure with their treatment of women, rather than the truth that nobody wants to be told to die.
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Physical Health
The male life expectancy is around 5.4 years less than females. Men are more likely to die of cancer.
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Can't Be Rape Victims
It was not until 2012 in America that the definition of rape was updated to include men as possible victims. However these gendered laws still exist in places like the UK where women cannot be charged with rape and instead receive a lesser criminal charge, if any.
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Criminal Sentencing
Men receive 63% longer sentences on average than women do. Women are also twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted.
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Sperm Theft and/or Rape + Turning into Child Support
In the USA and many countries men can AND HAVE been held liable to pay child support after a Woman got pregnant from raping the man. There is also no written law explicitly defining sperm theft illegal and if a women is impregnated from it there is no written law protecting the man from child support or punishment for the woman's theft.
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Substance Abuse
1 in 5 men develop alcohol dependency during their lifetime. Male military veterans have nearly twice the rate of substance abuse when compared to women. Men are more likely to use almost all types of illicit drugs.
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