Bryan Martin
2 min readJan 16, 2022

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For the most part, I personally don't bring up men's issues in articles about women. I do bring it up when ever I see outrage about female victims of homicide. They aren't talking necessarily about sexual assault or domestic violence. They are talking about women being safe walking home. Very often they make statements that prioritize keeping women safe. Because men are 3 times more likely to be victims of homicide, this outrage implicitly devalues men's lives.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-race-ethnicity-and-gender/

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-56365412

Here is an example of an article that implicitly suggests that women are more likely to be attacked by a stranger when she walks home.

https://susiekahlich.medium.com/the-real-reason-women-are-targeted-for-violence-9c9782ec07fa

I feel confident that the writer of this article is not intentionally spreading disinformation. However, because of the slant of the coverage of homicide in the media, and other opinion articles, you get the feeling that the homicides against women were a big problem relative to men. This is a falsehood.

These writers, like yourself, like to bring up it's men that are in power and we have the power to address it. But in reality, political power is in the hands a precious few and while they share our gender, and it's not most of us. Men with power and income can insulate themselves from violence. It has been this way for centuries.

There is no movement right now about protecting men's lives, just women's. Every time we (men) see some one suggesting that we put in place a curfew on only men to primarily protect women, who are a 1/3 less likely to be attacked relative to men, many of us feel like we're being devalued. We're supposed to just work and be shut up in our houses at night because we're dangerous and only valued for our work. I can't think of anything that dehumanizes men more.

Bringing up men victims of homicide in an article that only centers on homicides against women is not off topic.

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