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35 Kommentare
Yes. We can’t continue to complain about the effects of toxic influencers on young boys or the struggles of white working class boys when it comes to academic achievement, or high male suicide rates, if we’re going continue to do absolutely nothing about it.
Yes.
It is an area that would benefit massively in combating Manosphere BS.
Look promote the hundreds of thousands of positive male role-models that are drowned out and combat shitty algorithms that promote crappy behaviour.
Look at why education is failing boys.
And address higher suicide rates.
Yes obviously unless you want the culture wars to continue.
Or do a minister for youth culture and a minister for young adult social care
In principle, yes. But in practice most government action around equalities is already so tokenistic (at best, actively counterproductive at worst) that I’d worry the role wouldn’t accomplish much, and might actually take attention away from the actual structural changes we severely need in the UK.
No and there should not be for any gender. scrap identity politics completely.
There should be someone in government who’s job it is to advocate for *every* grouping of significant size in the UK’s demographic make up.
Men.
Boys.
Women.
Girls.
Christians.
Muslims.
Welsh.
Scots.
English.
Gay people.
Trans people.
Parents.
Old people.
Failure to represent *any* group just makes them a whipping post for the benefit of the other groups, with the unsurprising result that the neglected group gets more right wing over time as their needs are ignored, or actively worked against.
I would argue for an all-party parliamentary group would be quite effective. Working to apply pressure on the various departments, particularly, education and culture.
The quote from the Fawcett Society is incredible. “We have to get over the idea it’s us and them”, whilst literally trying to turn a question about male issues into a discussion about misogyny
Better question.
Why shouldn’t there be?
Genuinely. Can anyone give a valid reason?
If they can walk the walk and not just talk the talk, then go for it
Simply yes. The role of the government should be to tackle problems in society wherever they are, women and girls face problems specific to their sex as do men and boys.
I have been reading Jacob Dunne and he makes a wonderful point, that it takes generations to cause a problem but the government wants quick fixes. There needs to be time spent deconstructing these issues. It’s not about men vs women it’s about trying to build a society that works for everyone.
Considering I can’t name a single good thing the minister for women and girls has done, I’m gonna go with „no“. We don’t need even more pointless box ticking exercises in proving how „progressive“ and „caring“ the government is, we need people who actually want to improve the country.
Can look into suicide rates and educational equality which is becoming concerning
Nope. Its just a title that wont do anything.
They dont need a minister to tell them what the issues presenting any group is.
It can all be done via education and family/social work ministers.
Seems like they are kicking the problem down the road.
For my university Student Union (and I realise that we are going back a decade here) there was a Men’s Rep and a Women’s Rep, and it was kind of an understanding that if you have one, you have the other.
That said, while there were definitely some great Men’s Reps historically, there was also a guy who basically ran on the platform of ‚women deserve to be raped and men who complain about (being victims of) sexual assult or domestic violence are pussies‘ and actually got voted in because he was the only person running, and most people didn’t pay close enough attention to the SU election campaigns to *not* just vote for the only person running.
So what I’m saying is, while I would absolutely be in favour of a Minister for Men and Boys, there needs to be some way to ensure that some Andrew Tate-esque bad actor doesn’t get into a position to misuse the role to do shit like block access to domestic violence resources (both for women *and* for men, who already struggle to access such resources)
It’s a good concept my concern is how within that artical they’ve still spun it around to make it seem like men and boys are the problem? I see this happen alot and If your truly talking about solving issues then men and women should work together not point the finger at each other constantly.
This word misogyny as well needs to be corrected as it means hatred for women, and if you truly hated a women you would want them to suffer deeply which i dont think is the case for most men.
There needs to be a line in the sand because a man saying „I could not be in a relationship with a women who wears revealing clothing“ is not misogyny but in today’s world is framed as being so when im reality its just a matter of respect which you’ll find still holds value across the globe.
Overall great initiative! if they actually tackle issues as we know politics seems to be alot of talk and no action, hopefully they tackle this Headon and dont make this a case where they start telling boys and men that they should not feel the way they do about certain issues in a way to demonise them.
If there is one to advocate for women specific issues there should also be one for men specific issues as well
No, I would argue the if you need gender specific ministers then the other ones aren’t doing their job properly.
I would rather see the undersecretary for women’s and mental health refocussed to just mental health. Move the reproductive stuff to the undersecretary for public health and prevention (who already deals with sexual health).
I do agree but also in 2029 when reform get in that position will be going to a bloke who will just tell you to man up.
Yes
Its no surprise how alot of young men and boys act when all they see online is honestly just about the worst role models possible
People are saying we need one to „combat the manospehere“, but thats not just why we need one and its not even the main reason.
We need one because of the lack of support for male victims of domestic abuse. For the male suicide epidemic. Because of how many males aren’t going to uni. Boys are failing at school. Work place deaths. Very limited funding for men’s health. And so much more.
Its quite sad that the only reason this is being discussed is because of how its effects women, it wasn’t a problem until then.
Yes, because both sexes face different challenges. It makes no sense to only lift up one of them.
I was at UWE when we had a similar discussion regarding a mens officer to help tackle suicide rates amongst male students. It got so toxic they canned the idea and it only went through a couple of years later. Some people find it genuinely offensive that men might have issues that need to be addressed.
This is a massive issue with trying to help men. Men are often accused of being reactive and only talking about men’s issues in response to women talking about theirs, but when men try to bring about stuff like this to actually make a change, there’s pushback that we „don’t need it“.
No. Fuck no. And there shouldn’t be a minister for Women and Girls, either.
There should be a minister for social justice, equality and families, perhaps. But having a minister for each gender is just feeding the gender war.
And don’t for a second think I’m in any way trivialising the inequalities women face, or inflating the issues men have. They are both deeply intertwined with our society and perpetrated by each gender against itself as well as the opposite, but it is clear so much progress has been made for women’s equality and needs to continue to.
What I think is that gender is ying/ yang, you can’t deal with one without the other, it has to be done holistically with both sides considered.
For example, women lose out on career progression because of childbirth and breast feeding. So letting men have more paternal leave, and stop myths that bottle feeding is evil. See- it’s policy across the sexes that helps equality. And you can’t do that if you are only seen as minister for one side
I can hear Jess Phillips clutching her pearls from here.
I get the point they’re making, but I don’t think the way around this is to have two explicitly gendered departments.
This would be purely symbolic. In fact I could see the government creating the role then walking off dusting its hands saying „job done“. Dealing with tox masc. Actually requires resources and effort.
Considering the people who will be behind it, absolutely not. In the current state of our country, the Government shouldn’t be touching culture with a 6-foot pole, let alone a whole ministry.
To be fair everything aimed at men is half baked and patronising.
The answer to all the Tate bs is for their friends and mentors to talk them out of it, when his stuff needs lads who don’t have that. The stuff about being toxic is literally saying “maaaaate” to a guy, assuming he has any to say it in front of.
Academic stuff needs people to actually care, unless schools have changed dramatically since I was there, it was all about how your exam results affected the school in league tables and if you didn’t achieve then it was your fault, despite no assistance mechanism beyond “try harder”
Male suicide and International Men’s Day is basically just “don’t kill yourself, lads” whereas speaking as someone that has had friends attempt and someone who planned their own and used to SH, we need proper mechanisms way beyond what we have. I don’t care who it is but someone with ideas beyond what currently exists
Boys and men need help lol they struggling for real. Then that becomes everyones problem. So yeh if that helps.
Definitely after watching Louis Theroux. Bit let it be about empowering men by letting them be masculine, showing them discipline, teaching self defence, survival skills, but also about empathy and relationships. Have programmes that go into school to help boys. It’s a difficult time and the world is changing.
Probably not, but there shouldn’t be one for women and girls either. There should be one for people (or Equality) which is able to look at issues which negatively affect different groups and try to help fix them.
The problem at the moment is that we’re constantly told that women and girls need extra support, representation and government attention, but men and boys don’t.
Yes, but feminists are against it, when men talk about it, female politicians laugh
Making this minister would result in less funding for feminists so they are against it, its why they falsify statistics and protest gender equal laws
This shows how the UN uses feminism to spread victimhood propaganda rather than equality and justice for all
[https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/p/un-womens-feminist-propaganda-on](https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/p/un-womens-feminist-propaganda-on)
Violence against men is considered violence against women
[https://news.sky.com/story/why-the-governments-violence-against-women-and-girls-target-includes-men-but-not-girls-13485126](https://news.sky.com/story/why-the-governments-violence-against-women-and-girls-target-includes-men-but-not-girls-13485126)
[https://www.oakwoodsolicitors.co.uk/news/male-domestic-abuse-survivors-ignored-as-crimes-are-classed-as-violence-against-women/](https://www.oakwoodsolicitors.co.uk/news/male-domestic-abuse-survivors-ignored-as-crimes-are-classed-as-violence-against-women/)
Violence statistics are presented as violence against women, even if its against men in Sweden [https://imgur.com/WDdYTFT](https://imgur.com/WDdYTFT)
[https://jamstalldhetsmyndigheten.se/media/sqrpa4y0/handbok-inget-att-vanta-pa.pdf](https://jamstalldhetsmyndigheten.se/media/sqrpa4y0/handbok-inget-att-vanta-pa.pdf)
Spain hides 55% of victims as it only counts male on female violence
[https://theobjective.com/espana/politica/2026-01-02/gobierno-oculta-victimas-violencia-intrafamiliar-mujeres/](https://theobjective.com/espana/politica/2026-01-02/gobierno-oculta-victimas-violencia-intrafamiliar-mujeres/)
Men suffer from DV more than women, but the world believes otherwise
[https://domesticviolenceresearch.org/domestic-violence-facts-and-statistics-at-a-glance/](https://domesticviolenceresearch.org/domestic-violence-facts-and-statistics-at-a-glance/)
Consent to genital piercings, well you are now a victim a feminist initiative in order to inflate more victims in statistics
[https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-31938409](https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-31938409)
Feminist org defends domestic abuser
[https://virtualtcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/jordan-worth](https://virtualtcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/jordan-worth)
Feminist groups against gender equal rape laws
[https://archive.is/4tCrv](https://archive.is/4tCrv)
[https://archive.is/gIMui](https://archive.is/gIMui)
[https://archive.is/13rFM](https://archive.is/13rFM)
[https://archive.is/5bP77](https://archive.is/5bP77)
A Minister for people that treats people the same regardless of biology or disability.
Discussions like these are so performative. Why do we have a minister for women? Why was feminism one of the defining movements of the 20th century? Because structural discrimination and gendered violence against women is off the charts compared to the same against men (and even more so 30 years ago when this ministerial position was established). And further, decisions about women’s lives for at least the last few centuries have pretty much exclusively been made by men in consultation with other men. This isn’t a case of a few metrics where women have lost out. We’re talking about structural discrimination that permeates through virtually every single aspect of our lives.
Men as a whole are really not a discriminated group in remotely the same way as women. Specific subgroups of men, sure (gay men, black men, working class men, etc etc), but not men as a whole. And certainly there’s never been a time when men’s lives were heavily controlled by women.
So have a minister for working class men if you like. Or a suicide prevention tsar. Abolish the minister for women maybe because it’s quite outdated by now. But this “there’s an X for women so therefore there should be an X for men” argument is always extremely silly if you know anything about the history of feminism and women’s rights. Almost every time, the X for women exists in large part because women as a whole were entirely ignored or excluded until very recently in a way that has never been true for men as a whole.