"It is an occasion for men to celebrate their achievements while highlighting the discrimination against them. 99% of combat deaths are men."
This must stop , it's unfair and senseless . Women-only armies will adjust centuries of men abusing men.

diver dan,

Charlie Vernon was born in 1945. Different times, think of the technology revolution, where changes have vastly outpaced our ability to deal effectively with it, humans don't change so easily as you imply and the essential qualities that make us human, the brain in particular, stay the same.

We should add the other biggies such as globalisation and corporatisation and the list grows from there, into the loss of jobs and casualisation of the workplace.

So yes, there are those essential qualities that make us human and what is good boys and yes again, those factors are rarely in consideration, if at all, in the formation of public policy and that is the worse for boys, and young men. Yes too, the world has changed dramatically since 1945. In fact one could easily break that up and clump the period into say 1945 to the early Sixties, Sixties to Eighties and Eighties to 2000 and 2000 on, with huge leaps forward with different challenges each period and the change becoming far more rapid and devastating compared with what went before.

Maybe if the older men here could reflect on how prepared they are for now and for the immediate future. Gerontology hasn't been popular and no, it isn't up to date and governments are struggling, playing catch-up, eg Ireland and its Healthy and Positive Ageing Initiative.

We might also think of the bellwethers of needed change, such awful stats of self-harming and suicide among men and the failure of boys in education. From OLO,
'The grim future awaiting our boys' By Peter West, published 31/10/2017
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=19383

On International Men's Day let us remember
the good things about men and boys.

Here is a poem dedicated to a male teacher:

"I cannot write poetry, yet how else
can I tell.
How tell of this man among men -
not tall, not fair;
Bringing no gifts, speaking no harsh
words.
How tell of the miracle he wrought;
the loosening of the cords binding
my soul, the cutting of the
strings which draw tight the
shutters of my mind.
How else can I tell you of his
listening heart."

Happy Men's Day!

I must say I'm beginning to feel very sorry for today's men.
The attempt to emotionally emasculate them, the constant denigration of male behaviour, the denial of the simple drives of biology that have created this race of humans.
With the current obsession of trying to prove women and men are interchangeable as parents and that women can compete with men on every level, despite obvious physical differences means many young men will be left wondering exactly what their role in this society is.
The rate of suicide in young males grows every year and unless we, as a society can effect a change that gives men back their sense of purpose and feeling of worth, then we shall see many more premature deaths.

The search goes on for the Australian politician who is interested in International Men's Day 2017..

Qld, where campaigning is underway for a State election, a blank sheet, nil,
http://qorf.org.au/whats-on/international-mens-day/

LeoJ

I don't think for a minute, the positive life of Charlie Veron can be dismissed as a dated aberration. Verons life is a timeless example of “mind over matter”, and his successful life and similar others) can and should be highlighted as an example of what a MAN can achieve.
We, all of us with a brain, can discern accurately, as we do, the huge problems created by the gender-bender fraternity. But one positive from the recent ssm survey was, the gender diluting support, is primarily by the young themselves.

One could simply say, you will reap what you sow; best of British, and dismiss the male of the species as a lost cause.

I'm personally very happy with my own achievements, having lived the equivalent of ten lives, like the proverbial cat; (and Charlie Veron). I don't understand why excuses for “men” want to buckle under the psychosis of gender bending. I have absolutely no understanding of this phase of our pathetic and gutless society. And the Chinese just simply march in and take us over, without a shot being fired! Gutless!

There are two evils I refuse to countenance, Chinese and homosexuals! Maybe take my attitude of a “man” as another example. Till then, they can keep on killing themselves in increasing numbers, good riddance to the gutless generation of “quasi” men!