I get that being razzed for living in mom's basement is about on par with complaining about discrimination because your dry cleaning and haircuts are more expensive.
About the more serious issues you mention; Personally, I think that workplace injuries and fatalities have their roots in patriarchy. They aren't on anyone's radar because they are a part of patriarchy which is really only considered a problem to the next of kin. Male only draft? Ditto. We're fine with patriarchy - sometimes - and especially if it means that crab legs remain less than $10.00 per pound.
Misandry on the other hand, raises its head when people say that it is intolerably sexist to talk about this stuff.
It's not necessary for these things to be a problem for me personally - to recognize that it is a problem generally. It represents an irreconcilable asymmetry in social priorities. I find it odd that when I mourn the treatment Matthew Shepard got, or the treatment that Trayvon Martin got, or the treatment that Rachel Corrie got, I'm fulfilling expectations because only an inhuman monster could fail to sympathize on the basis that what happened to them is "more theoretical than real, and not likely to have a serious detrimental impact on my life."
(Cue the bla bla brigade: "Did you hear him compare himself to Trayvon Martin?!1!1"
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I am not suggesting that this is what you are doing. I am just saying that men are socialized to ignore and minimize not only trivial slights, but even grossly unfair treatment.
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It is true enough that I have been blessed with skills and an environment that allowed me to avoid seriously hazardous occupations, but that may or may not be true for my sons, and contrary to popular opinion, it isn't the coal miner's fault for doing something so stupid.
Men are murdered 3x more often. They die of suicide 5x more often. They die on the job 8x more often. They die 7 years younger. I don't think there's any argument who's getting the disproportionate share of harm.
There's no such thing as reverse sexism. It is all one thing.
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