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Excellent point about how the important information regarding deaths of despair has not been discussed. The increase in crime data that wasn't reported is deeply troubling. Great research.

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Mark, thanks for recognizing this problem. The reason we need more programs that look at male outcomes guided by people actually involved in outcomes that impact boys and men is because the data, training, programs, and attention are either outright ignored or geared to misplace attention--like the bait and switch that often happens when trying to actually focus on male outcomes. (We saw this recently in the New Yorker Magazine in an article by Andrew Solomon; see my last article "Soft-Censoring the Male and the Masculine in our Culture.)

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Thanks for your excellent hard work.

My comment here is too short and needs a lot of nuance which I'm not providing but here it is anyway: For complex and not rational human reasons, people don't care about men as a class. Showing what inequality looks like in the context of men and women, even when wonderfully done, fails to move people. The basic problem remains much as it was at the publication of The Myth of Male Power some 30 years ago.

BUT . . . have some uppity Proud Boys raise their head and the sleeping dragon wakes up. People notice! People have responses and become engaged. What would help imho would be to take a very assertive pro-male stance in a group and focus on claiming and defending space as men of substance. Change the dynamic. Such a group would have to fight the slanders and claim the right for members to an impolite share of pride and direction. Worth more than a university education and free. They'd step out of the space provided for men as the perpetual IGNORABLES.

The situation is more primal than rational.

The discrepancies are real but pointing them out statistically isn't having effect as I see it. A fight is needed but a conscious fight. Warrior energy is needed. The men who are losing need as well, the return of a healthy warrior and their own personal enlistment in the fight.

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Great job Andrew and thanks for sharing. Essential books, like Farrell's The Myth of Male Power; Gurian's Wonder of Boys; Hoff-Sommers' War Against Boys; Michael Thompson's Raising Cain, Robert Bly's Iron John, and a few others are critical reads for all young men and men.

You are right that it is time to unleash the healthy warrior.

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