Men's issues involve the experiences men encounter, how they understand them, and how they value themselves and others. Men's issues also involve how women both perceive and treat men, and the extent to which women understand that men experience their lives differently to them. There is often an interaction of both personal and cultural factors in men's issues, where respectively, significant others, and cultural gender identities and gender role conflicts, play a part in their formation. 

 

Causes and Symptoms of Men's Issues

Men are treated in ways considered unacceptable if applied to women. Men die in combat or return with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or serious injuries. Some women commit domestic violence against men, or say all men are bastards, persecutors or rapists. Some advertisers portray men as fools or sex objects. Divorce courts favour mothers over fathers, causing fathers anger and their sons loss of male role models. Suicidal young men outnumber suicidal young women and often have absent fathers.

 

Men have culturally conditioned gender roles which affect how they relate to themselves and others. Men, often socialised to not show emotions, experience anxiety and shame when they try, discomfort when others do, avoid psychological assistance, or retreat into alcoholism, isolation or overwork. Workplace cultures promote compulsive competition causing stress, toleration of repetitive tasks causing dullness, or impinge on family time causing conflicts and distress. Redundancy causes loss of identity.

 

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