Let us not shy away from the brutal truth: Men built western civilisation.
Not ‘cis’ men or ‘trans men’, but simply, men.
Though the age of the Ancients and Enlightenment may well be long behind us — the Glory of Rome itself founded 2,775 years ago this day — the reality of our ancestral heritage, and democracy, must never be forgotten.
Sadly, as we now live in an age of grotesque historical and cultural butchery, the ease with which devastatingly dumb western societies recognise such a reality becomes ever-harder to hold onto.
This is, it has to be said, a shameful indictment of what we now consider — and allow — to be called ‘education’. Two years’ worth of the teaching unions playing Russian roulette with a child’s right (and future) to education because of their own irrational fears of Coronavirus should go some way to surmising how useless, let alone nefarious, those in control of the industry actually are.
In recent times, however, men and boys, rather than being celebrated and congratulated for their impossibly-immutable characteristics like every other demographic seemingly get to enjoy, have, in dark opposition, been browbeaten, bullied and beaten into derision.
Heaven help you, by the way, if you dared, like Thomas Jefferson, or any of North America’s iconic Founding Fathers, to be born ‘white’.
Of course, to the minds of the easily malleable, Guardian readers (and writers), for example, to admit such a thing is worthy of derision, itself; that is to say, the mere acknowledgement alone that many millions of men face sustained and silent suffering is, to the woke hive mind, akin to blasphemy, especially when one can waste time waxing lyrical about ‘gender fluidity’, instead.
But let’s not delude ourselves in this debate: The PC brigade’s lethal concoction of anti-white race-baiting and fourth-wave feminism’s anti-man ‘toxic masculinity’ campaigns, relentlessly echoed through the megaphones of Marxist media and ‘higher’ education’s “social justice academics”, does have real-world consequences.
Indeed, just type the words ‘white man’ into the world’s largest online search engine, Google, and marvel at the first five written articles:
Now, please don’t tell me algorithms of a certain political stripe and bias do not exist.
As lamentable and laughable as such ‘journalism’ is (imagine for just a second the outcry if the word ‘white’ was replaced with ‘black’ or ‘brown’), multiple studies discussing the after effects of a ‘negativity bias’ — the ways in which we “attend to, learn from, and use negative information far more than positive information” — are firmly established.
Simply put, humans are evolutionary hard-wired to dwell, adopt or react to negative stimuli when compared to positive stimuli.
It is no stretch to assume, then, that a flagging mainstream media’s persistent pursuit to denigrate half of the world’s population in some maniacal attempt to restructure society’s apparent reliance on “the patriarchy” could — and does — contribute to said population’s tragic demise.
If one is constantly told, or taught, that their mere existence as a male (or white male) is a foundational flaw of society, for instance, should we really be surprised when they decide to check themselves out of it?
Take suicide.
According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) 2020 review into suicide registrations in England and Wales, men accounted for 75 per cent of all deaths, which is a trend they confirm has occurred since the mid-1990s. Middle-aged men, particularly, aged 45 to 49 years had ‘the highest age-specific suicide rate (24.1 male and 7.1 female deaths) per 100,000 people’.
Similarly, in the United States, statistics gathered in the same year by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention saw almost four times as many suicides in men compared to women. Furthermore, ‘white males’ accounted for nearly 70 per cent of all suicide deaths in 2020, while the rate of suicide in ‘middle-aged white men’, specifically, was the highest across all demographic groups.
Talk about ‘male privilege’.
Though, of course, it might well be expected that predominantly white populations incur such dire costs the most, lesser-discussed factors that may contribute to such sorry outcomes for all men are rarely forthcoming.
Mental health, drug and alcohol misuse, homelessness, and divorce (often all linked), to name but a few of the driving causes of western-wide male anguish.
Men, both in the UK and US, to take but two of many nations, are consistently ruled against in child custody battles following a breakdown in marriage, which has routinely been reported to ignite suicidal tendencies—and action; British government analysis published last month via a Department for Work & Pensions audit found that from 2014-2021 there were 2.3 million ‘separated families’ nationwide, affecting 3.6 million children.
Of these, over the course of three years from 2019-2021, men accounted for 88 per cent of ‘non-resident’ parents, meaning they didn’t have sole custody of their children though they were still required to pay often-unreasonable child maintenance costs to the mother.
Strange. In a world of incredible female empowerment and progress, why is it men are still expected to act as portable cash machines for women despite almost exclusively being hit the hardest post-divorce? Or are some forms of sexism — those which are coincidently financially beneficial to females — allowed to be permitted?
The latest US Census Bureau statistics from 2017 read along the same lines; despite a slight rise in fathers being awarded custody rights since the mid-1990s, they made up only 20 per cent (or 2.6 million) of a near-13 million pool of custodial parents.
Unsurprisingly, the male fallout from a bitter breakup, economic hardship, and wholly discriminatory family court legislation (made even worse by a new UK law that makes divorce even easier), can often encourage widespread self-harm.
According to Alcohol Change UK, as of 2020, men are twice as likely to die from alcohol-specific causes than women; the most recent ONS stats on drug misuse in England and Wales also points in this direction with men nearly ‘twice as likely as women’ to have taken any drug, while in America, men are twice as likely as women to die from any type of drug overdose (OD).
The extent of drug misuse in the United States is so severe, in fact, that opioid use especially (now deemed an epidemic), amounts to approximately 70 per cent of all OD deaths, which clocks close to 100,000 people per year; shockingly, among 25- to 34-year-olds, the overall male OD death rate — where Black Americans are affected most — exceeds women’s by 147 per cent.
Comparative to the population, ratios of male homelessness in the UK and US are strikingly similar, too; released just this month, an online summary by The Big Issue — a UK street newspaper — highlighted that men sleeping rough on Britain’s streets outnumber women by a factor of ‘six to one’, which is likely to be an underestimate.
So too in the United States where the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s latest report into homelessness attained findings that showed ‘six of every 10 people experiencing homelessness were men or boys’, whilst ‘almost half’ of the entire homeless population that year (580,466 people) were ‘white’.
Within criminal and m
ental detention centres, too, men and boys massively surpass female incarceration; at a senior level, 96 per cent of the country’s entire adult prison population is male, with 97 per cent of the UK’s youth custody population (ages 10-17) being boys; lastly, NHS England statistics tracking people detained under the Mental Health Act determined the rates were higher for males (91.8 per 100,000 population) than females (84.4 per 100,000 population) during 2019-2020.
‘A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.’
Seneca
Pitifully, state education also continues to reap misery.
Academically, as per a UK parliament Education Select Committee assessment from 2021, the myth of ‘white privilege’ was severely damaged when it warned that the poorest white working-class pupils on free school meals ‘underachieve’ consistently from early childhood education all the way through to university entry, particularly when compared with pupils on free meals from other ethnic groups.
Ultimately, just 16 per cent of White British pupils attained higher education placements as opposed to 59 per cent of Black African, and 73 per cent of Chinese populations, thus disproportionately emphasising a desperate disadvantage versus the white majority population in the country as a whole.
Important facts to consider, perhaps, in the face of an ever more political and corporate-led culture where men and boys are chastised for the crimes of the past and future. Lest we forget the latest brainchild of London mayor, Sadiq Khan, a man who undeniably is toxic, whereby no commuter journey on the underground train lines can now be had without being presupposed to be a criminal, in this case, staring at others in a ‘sexual’ manner.
Of course, while it is absolutely true that plenty of men in our world inflict suffering upon others themselves, and plenty more work needs to be done for this to be rectified, first, let us understand why it happens; second, let us recognise anti-white racism as racism; third, let us accept that no, not all men are evil or destined to become evil, and finally, let us help nurture our newest generations of boys with positive, not negative, intent.
Men — real, wise, and principled men — built western civilisation. Many millions have died for it. And judging by the distinct surplus of wet western ‘leaders’ who seem to have forgotten such salience, simultaneously destroying their own societies, be under no illusion that we’ll need more of them, not less, to save it. Perhaps we should begin by lifting them up from, not pushing them down to, oblivion.
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