Who Cares About Male Suffering?

Who Cares About Male Suffering?
Gender Empathy Gap Day seeks to prompt recognition of our collective inability or unwillingness to recognize the humanity of men. Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels
Janice Fiamengo
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Commentary
Very few people know that July 11 is Gender Empathy Gap Day, a day inaugurated in Germany in 2018 to raise awareness of our societies’ general indifference to the suffering of men and boys. Not surprisingly, it has no official status in any country.
Janice Fiamengo
Janice Fiamengo
Author
Janice Fiamengo is retired professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Her latest book is “Sons of Feminism: Men Have Their Say.”
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