The Real ‘Everyday Sexism’ Is Against Men

Article here. [Warning: NSFW image at top of article] Excerpt:

'On Friday, the pettiness of modern, online protest feminism versus the stark truth that Britain is becoming increasingly hostile toward men was brought cruelly into view, when two seemingly unconnected news stories collided on the same day. To add a typically British undercurrent of black humour, both stories centred around the human bottom.
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Only now, 26 years later – in the world of freely-available online porn, no less – the sclerotic eye of online protest feminism has seen something altogether more sinister in it. Of course, Tennis Girl is sexist – and regular observers of modern feminism like myself only half-sobbed: “How did it take you so long?”
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The choice of target image felt totemic. Cruelly outing the Athena Tennis Girl as in some way misogynistic felt like a sort of historical abuse allegation against all men. It exhumed and shamed long-forgotten masculine desires felt by millions of us as we set off on our paths of sexual awakenings.

It was almost like Everyday Sexism were claiming most British men have been inexorably sexist from age seven, when most of us first saw it on a bedroom wall of an older sibling or school pal. Now the image was “disappointing,” as Everyday Sexism called it, in the favoured, terse language of the purse-lipped, disapproving matron.
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By the time I clocked in to Twitter at 4 a.m. on Friday morning, Tennis Girl’s detractors were calling for it to be “eradicated from history” – sharing poisonous lexicon with history’s most heinous despots and totalitarian censors.

Seething with finger-curling indignation, I made my way to the Sky News studios for my weekly newspaper review, where I chose to cover the second big story that was affecting men that day, a shocking Prostate Cancer UK report in the Daily Mail.

The report shows that prostate cancer, which affects only men, receives just £417 worth of research funding per case. The “female” cancers – ovarian, cervical and breast – receive £1912, £1142 and £853 respectively. Of the 40,000 men who contract prostate cancer annually, some 10,000 die.
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Furthermore, last week the Cancer Drugs Fund in England axed the new drug Jevtana – even though it was said to give patients at least three extra months of life. On top of all this, Owen Sharp, of Prostate Cancer UK, also warned that half of specialist prostate cancer nurses are set to retire in the next ten years. There are no plans for a new workforce.

The story gave me the perfect opportunity to launch into a depressingly recurring topic of debate, namely: “Is health care provision in the UK sexist against men?”'