My husband has a coaster on his desk printed with the words, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”. It brings a wry smile every once in a while, largely because we know that trope to be far from true. As a wife and mother, I am happy to admit I need my husband a whole lot more than a finned creature needs a velocipede. Sadly, though, not all men know this to be true.
A litany of challenges face today’s young men. Men make up close to 80 per cent of suicides, have lower levels of education than their female counterparts, and make up 95 per cent of the prison population. An epidemic of fatherlessness has undoubtedly cemented the crisis of masculinity. If it’s a man’s world, it surely isn’t much of one.
