I think before I go into any great detail about what this blog is, it might be better for me to establish what this blog is not. Let’s Talk About It, is not:
- an antifeminist blog
- a men’s rights blog
- an incel blog
- a platform for hatespeech
- an ideologically driven platform
Let’s Talk About It is a blog that I have started to be able to constructively talk about men’s issues free from ideology, politics or identity. It strikes me that across the political spectrum there is very little useful discussion of men’s issues available online and this is something that I want to rectify. Hopefully, through the writing of this blog a narrative may emerge where we are able to discuss men’s issues constructively and healthily.
I think that there is simple evidence for a need to talk about men’s issues, whatever they are. Discussing our problems makes us healthier, happier and stronger. It provides us with solutions and often gives us the knowledge that we are not alone. There is a common truth that men do not talk about their problems and there is a common truth that there is a problem with male mental health in this country:
- In the UK, men are three times as likely to take their own lives than women.
- In the Republic of Ireland, men are four times more likely to take their own lives than women.
- In the UK, the highest suicide rate was for men aged 45-49.
- In the Republic of Ireland, the highest suicide rate was for men aged 25–34 (with an almost identical rate for men aged 45–54).
These are shocking statistics and I believe that there is a correlation between these common truths. Perhaps it’s time to start talking.
Whatever it is, Let’s Talk About It.
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