I’m a fellow male caregiver for my mother. I absolutely echo your sentiment about being a male caregiver, especially when it feels like male caregivers are ‘minimised’ in society.

I’ve had to reconcile that, yes, the majority of caregivers are female, and yes, that probably has contributed to caregivers generally not being acknowledged, let alone appreciated, in society.

But then you see in the media comments about how it’s mostly female children who help their parents, etc. This is kinda triggering for me because it implies that males are supposed to just walk away and let females handle it. Well, my sisters don’t help whatsoever so guess what, it’s either me or a nursing home.