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Except, well, often times equality / anti-sex-discrimination law does benefit men. It's now illegal for driving insurance companies to charge men more than women (even though they are statistically worse drivers) (in EU).

Additionally there are attempted to get more men into professions where they were traditionally underrepreseted.

Here's the UK Department of Education: "Record numbers of men teaching in primary schools - but more still needed" http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/inthenews/a00211812/re...

So yes, equality and governmental agencies are complaining about the lack of men in some professions and trying to increase it. The photo on the NHS's "Nursing" career page ( http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explore-by-career/nursing/ ) is a man. (The NHS is the UK's public sector health system and is one of the largest employers in the world.)

You do not appear to have done any research and are claiming that "no-one tackling the lack of men in some cases", when in fact, they are.

With your specific examples, you don't give any citations, so I wonder if you're cherry picking? Humanity is big and people will have lots of opinions. You're telling me that the most common response to lower grades for boys as opposed to boys is an appeal to biology? Got any citations?




But when people ask for gender neutral language in Violence Against Women Act and family law, countless feminists scream "wut about the menz?!"


I don't know about this VAW Act (seems to be US thing), the US isn't so great on the equality law anyway (since there is no legal maternity leave, marital status or sexuality isn't a protected ground etc.) If I were to talk about how China does voting, would that be a fair cop against democracy?




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