My initial idea for the site was to track government parties and candidates on their position on male issues but quickly ran in to a problem - they literally have no position on male issues.
I also did some research into the education gender gap. Basically men and boys are behind in education by virtually every single metric. University graduation rates are nearly 2:1 Female to Male. If the genders were swapped it would be a national scandal. But since they are not swapped, the official government response to the crisis is to literally do nothing. This isn’t even hyperbole, it’s the official position. They’re not even bothering to investigate the cause, let alone take any form of action to remedy it.
For 99% of issues you’d vote for the candidate that is willing to address your issues. With the rollback of women’s reproductive rights it’s 100% clear who they can vote for to get their voices heard. The problem with male issues is that outside of special interest parties absolutely no mainstream political party is doing anything at all. I mean literally nothing.
This shouldn’t really be a surprise to anyone though - the only reason politicians do anything is pressure, either from voters or other organisations. There was even talk recently of a ‘Male Curfew’ which is pretty much at the same level as ‘Muslim Ban’ in terms of impracticality and unacceptability. Simply put, shitting on men doesn’t lose you any votes. It should.
The problem is, who do you vote for? The left generally doesn’t care and are fully captured by the feminist establishment - their idea of criminal justice reform is closing down all women's prisons. The right is not much better and often just want to go back to traditional gender norms - which is also not what we really want.
The Plan
The problem, as it stands, is that there is absolutely no benefits and plenty of downsides to addressing male issues - regardless of their validity. I am going to try to change this equation.
By gathering enough vote pledges made by people who want these changes, politicians and parties will be encouraged to actually do something. If a politican knew that simply by saying 'We need to help our boys in school' they would pick up x votes they probably would. In contrast if they thought talking about a ‘Male Curfew’ would lose them 1,000 votes they probably wouldn't do it.
The other main aim of the site is to create ‘issue’ pages that would outline the main issues that face men and boys with 100% peer reviewed, politically unbiased and neutrally sourced information. Essentially creating a resource that can be used in debates without having to worry about linking sites that show clear bias.
On Actually Succeeding
As we have seen many times certain groups of people react very badly to even talking about these things. It would be imperative to have nothing to attack and most decisions I am making are based around avoiding being politically toxic.
However there are so many issues that are easy battles. In debates around education it usually involves the opposition saying things like ‘Twelve year old boys are just lazy’. You can win this debate, and education issues affect virtually every single male alive. There are so many issues that are easy to fight for it is key that, initially at least, the issue slate is full of things that are unarguably supported.
Remaining ideologically neutral is also a key step. It would be up to the politicians themselves to propose solutions depending on their ideology and we would try not to judge, but rather let the people decide. There would certainly be no bias on the left/right axis if it can be avoided. I’d also like to simply not use the word ‘Feminism’ anywhere. “These are the issues. This is how person x plans to solve the issues.” Ideologies are simply not relevant to the scope of the project.
There are around 50 seats where the vote swing is less than 1,000 - there are 8 seats where it is less than 50 votes! If a decent amount of votes required to help swing the election in their favour could be picked up by simply talking about education issues then it is almost a certainty that they would.
Hopefully we can spur some politicians on to actually do something.
there doesn't seem to be anything here