And while her explanation makes sense and is one I can accept, there’s another part to it and that is that his criticism failed (see Darcy’s post for more on that, she explains it better than I ever could).

And I just made a reply to that! 😅

I specifically said only a certain kind of man was overrepresented. There may be a glass ceiling, but there is for sure a glass floor, and when men fail with their risk-taking, they can fail big.

29% of male first-time offenders were sentenced to custody. For women, that figure was 17%. Men have a 62% chance of being bailed, while for women that figure is 80% and on average men serve 53% of their sentence but women serve 5% less than that.

I too agree that women are underrepresented. They are only 6.7% of the prison population after all. When are we going to believe women can be just as responsible for their actions as men? Even a white male will be sentenced more harshly than a black woman.

But in 2011 the housing charity Crisis found that 84% of the hidden homeless were male.

Out of sight, out of mind.

men are 20 times more likely to have a fatal injury at work than women.

The patriarchy protects! After all men only commit suicide 5 times more than women. When are we going to narrow that gap?

You can’t just look at the men who succeed and assume All Men Are Like That. That’s not how life ever worked, and is a really quick way to kill compassion for your fellow human.

You did do your research, you just never finished it.