Yes Jay--please elucidate your hypothesys, When you say fight, what are you saying?
I think that we men DO need to learn to band together for our common good. This is now done in situations that are unique to men like football, building things, and other tasks primarily of a physical nature.
Women naturally band together on social levels: management is the best example where over 50% of management is by women, especially among other women who are rapidly filling the workforce which no longer primarily consists of physical activities such as assembling products: vehicles, furnature, large structures and other tasks requiring strength and cognative skills uncommon to women.
We need to tune in to our uniqueness and develop it to deserve the respect of being able to do things better than women--in OUR sphere of compitency.

Michael, your sphere of "compitency" is obviously not spelling.

Articles such as these are sometimes the result of a bitter divorce or custody battle where the man has come off second best.

I have posted a small tribute to the mens movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c

Let the healing begin ...

I certainly agree with all the points from this article that mention men's health.
Surely men can become proactive and go to see their GP's at least once a year for a checkup though? I have seen good health campaigns on TV to encourage men to come forward re their prostate, depression and bowel cancer, so there should be no excuses other than from the men themselves.

All women have beloved men in their lives, be they sons, brothers, fathers, uncles etc. So I doubt there is this supposed feminist conspiracy to ensure women get the lions share of the health dollar. Maybe if men stood up for themselves and demanded more services, like women do, then things would improve.

I hate reading about bitter, whining men who spend all their time blaming women for their problems.
Stand up for yourselves and become active in improving your lives if you are unhappy.
No one else can do that for you...

Jay Of Melbourne, I don't think physical reaction is the solution. This is meme-territory here.
You replace a meme with another meme.

Poirot “feminist power and influence has increased in proportion to the fortunes of the West”

The coming Greatest Depression won't be “Fun For Girls” then.

Cheryl “the result of a bitter divorce or custody battle”

Yes, it's all just the flaws of an individual, not a problem in society-in-general.
Phew! That's a relief!

Suseonline “I doubt there is this supposed feminist conspiracy”

It's not just health funding. It's everything.
The pro-woman, anti-man sentiment now permeates our whole society.
Note: This usually happens on a preemptive subconscious/covert level.

What employer will fire a woman (or any other “minority”) during layoffs and risk a lawsuit.
Fire a white man? Lawsuit, what lawsuit?
Fire Joe and Bill instead.
Same goes for job applications.
Reject the Asian female applicant? Not likely!
Result: perpetually lower employment rates for white men.
First to be fired, last to be hired.

Same goes for attention from teachers in school.
Teacher *unconsciously* imagines future: “My daughter complained about all the time you spent helping Jason Williams with his project.
You spent less than half as much time with Misaki.
I'm suing this school for sexual and racial discrimination, you Nazi!”

Teacher spends lots of time with Misaki and ignores Jason.

Shockadelic, this thread is about how men are apparently more unlucky than women in this world. So why are you raving about racism?
Men are men, regardless of color or race.

One of the points made in the article was that more men die from violence in society than women. Yes, that is certainly true, but the vast majority of perpetrators of violence are men.

Yes some perpetrators are women, but surely we should be concentrating on dealing with the ALL violence, regardless of gender?

Maybe gender equality is a little more advanced here in Australia, but females in most countries of the world are worse off than the males in many ways.
I doubt men are that unlucky ....