Can you show me where these metrics are defined , and how they arrived at those metrics , either to the exclusion of other metrics , or showing that they have included all relevant metrics ? Fair enough we can argue this point . Because I think focusing on men deranges what gets to be thought of as important primarily because in my opinion , society trivializes that which isn ' t in the favor of men which , were it not in the favor of minorities or especially women would hyperbolize it as being absurdly important , I try to use what we used to justify why , say , we needed to act on helping black people or women in the past . In other words , if such metrics were used as an impetus for immediate and necessary action in the past for one group , why are they not being used now for another ? One salient example ? Here ' s a 1976 article from the NYTimes lamenting the state of African Americans in Americasignal . html ? r 0 , entitled Distress Signal . It ' s providing a summary of the first State of Black America report of the National Urban League , highlighting a number of inequalities that black people faced . Specifically noted were unemployment , median income , and health care disparities . If you further open up the NUL ' s actual inaugural address upon which that article is based , you ' ll see that they use metrics in these areas to demonstrate that societal action is needed to help black people economy , employment , housing , health , education , legislation , crime , and social welfareIndeed , the phrase they use in the next sentence is literally this By any of the accepted indicators ofprogressemployment , housing , education , etc . many of the gainsblacks made over the past decade were either wiped out or badlyeroded in 1975 . In other words , they believe the above metrics are accepted indicators of progress . After they ' ve shown that blacks trail whites in the economy and employment for which they use unemployment and median income , housing for which they use home ownership , health for which they use health disparities in longevity and infant mortality , education for which they use integration issues , disproportionate suspensions and expulsions from school , and high school and college graduates , along with a dearth of black professionals , crime for which they use victimization of crime specifically robbery , assault , rape , and murder , and incarceration rates , social welfare spending on welfare programs that benefit blacks , and legislation for which they argue that legislation being passed is not being passed to address the previous issues , the NYTimes concluded that these metrics from the referenced article above In addition to the moral failures this report underscoreswhich by themselves are highly significantit dramatizes unwholesome and even frightening social policy trends . Such severe distress in any single segment of society is bound to have large consequences throughout all of American life . Nothing demonstrates this quite so well as the current precarious financial plight of so many of the nation ' s cities . In the end , then , the conditions described by the Urban League constitute a substantial challenge to the country ' s political leadership , not simply to redeem a central aspect of American idealism , but to reverse a dangerous disintegration in the social fabric of the entire nation . I can very quickly show you that the average male trails the average women in virtually ALL of those metrics save , say integration issues though one could make an argument that higher education is becoming decidedly antimale , rape though one could make the argument that our definitions exclude the sheer number of male rape victimsrapenumbers and often do not count prison rape , median income though one could argue that women controlling the majority of w e a l t h n o w c o n t r o l m o r e t hanhalfofuspersonalwealth 20154 whilst working fewer hours is a far more important metric , number of professionals though we ' re obsessed with correcting that for women in many areas , housing which admittedly , I have no idea about , though I know there are more homeless men than womencontentuploads 201203 June 2001 HealingHands . pdf and some scorecards show that women own more than menbygender , and infant mortality , which is sort of a non sequitur to this discussion though males die as infants more than females . Indeed , I could argue that average men face an even LARGER deficit in some ways they pay the majority of tax , still receive a minority of the largest domestic social service programs , and rarely even get mentioned as a cohort requiring help indeed , sometimes it ' s found laughable to even do so by supposed intellectually liberal folks while controlling a minority electorate which furthers that issue . In other words , for the metrics given that are of the accepted indicators of progressas defined by the National Urban League and whose importance is so important it ' s viewed as essential to the central aspects of American idealism and the moral fiber of our country and key to the integration of the social fabric of the nation by the NY Times , we seem to be totally apathetic when a ton of those metrics concern men . Now , you may believe that A . these are not indicators of social progress that we can agnostically use to judge the health of a cohort in this country , B . they ARE indicators , but the numerous ones that are shown to disfavor males are trumped , if you will , by integration , housing , rape , median income , number of professionals , and infant mortality , despite my thoughts on why they shouldn ' t , or C . there are way better indicators that we didn ' t use for black people when we decided to help black people that disfavor women , or some combination of the above thereof . But if that ' s where we are in the debate , then I ' d find the argument particularly wanting and somewhat arbitrary particularly C and I ' d think the onus was on the other party to show that my argument based on these previously used metrics was less compelling . And just to be clear , indeed , I actually DO think that plenty of people basically use tack B . to say that median income the wage gappay , o b a m a l a u n c h e s i t s u s c a m p a ignendsexualassaultcampus , and number of professionals see above , also , , are literally the three most important gender issues to the exclusion of all else precisely BECAUSE the sheer tonnage of other metrics we ' ve previously used to judge the health of a cohort so obviously disfavor males that they shouldn ' t be focused upon , because that destroys the narrative .