IT IS A MAN'S WORLD, THEY SAY. HOW TRUE...

It is quite safe to say that yesterday was another regular Thursday. So regular that the only irregularity about it seems to be the youthful-online-frenzy referred to as Throwback Thursday.

Here’s a shocker, yesterday was International Men’s Day. It is a day so uncomemorated that not even men remember it. Why? You may ask, well we don’t completely know too. But we think it may stem from the fact that we are the accepted stronger vessel.

Quite understandably, the world is more disposed to siding with the underdogs – something men are not seen to be. Before the nay – saying, here are some examples; there’s a day for handicapped people, but none for able – bodied individuals; a day for mentally – ill people, but none for those who have their thoughts in the right place; there’s even a day for gay people, but none for us the straight ones.

While it is again understandable to always set out time to listen out for issues concerning the less privileged (not including the gay ones), it is not a bad idea to look out for issues concerning men too. What issues, you say. Well, in the UK, suicide is the single biggest killer of men under the age of 45. Men are also prone to missing serious health issues as they are less likely to visit the doctor while performing the hordes of requirements that come with being a man as well as the lopsided thinking that men are naturally stronger than the females, forgetting that we have pretty much the same set of vital organs (keyword here is VITAL); boys have also been observed to under - perform academically compared to girls worldwide.

Dare I say that the biggest issue faced by men is ironically the neglect of issues relating exclusively to men? Our online digging on this issue met us with a lot of articles all trying to say the same thing 

“it is better to be born a man than to be born a woman”,

but is it?

 Domestic violence, sexual violence, depression in younger men, behavioral problems etc are all issues faced by men in our generation but everyone seems to find a feminine spin on it.

It is said, and truly so, that over 800 women die every day due to complications relating to childbirth, but on the average more men dieeach year - and earlier too, than women; while international organisations are working on fixing the former, the latter is a joke we all share around on social networks.

Almost every type of cancer kills more men than women (almost is the keyword here), but more attention is placed on dealing with cancer in women than it is with men. Here's a little info relating to breast cancer (which has a day for women).

Interestingly enough, although men are 100 times less – likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, about 440 men are expected to die from it this year alone in the United States.

More men than women die from accidents every year.

For every year from 1975 to 2013, the number of male crash deaths was more than twice the number of female crash deaths. Source IIHS.

Many more statistics exist to buttress the point that society could (and should) be doing more for the men; after all, we put in so much for the betterment of society (especially those guys in the military).

While we do not intend to take anything away from the women, we are of the opinion that it would not be a terrible idea to make men feel special too, and give a listening ear to issues affecting men.

After all, statistics say we won’t last too long here.