Religion is a Mental Illness

Earl Silverman, who ran men’s safe house, dies in apparent suicide | …

The day after he packed up his recently sold home — also the site of the Men’s Alternative Safe House — Earl Silverman was found hanging in

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It was men who built the pyramids and laid the great railroads.

Yes, it was men who laid down the bedrock of society; from the buildings high above, to the infrastructure deep below, all of it was built by the hard work of hardened male hands.

And so the problem of there being no shelters for male victims of abuse, seems kinda simple to solve?

Let’s build them boys! 🔨

How hard could it really be; bricks and mortar, some timber, chuck in some hard hats and some elbow grease, and were done.

In fact, funnily enough, it wasn’t women or bra burning feminists who built the first women’s shelters, in fact… it was men.

So why can’t the boys get together again, and reunite, to do what they do best? Build.

Why can’t ‘men build their own refuges’, as you’ll probably hear asked around social media.

Well, the issue is not necessarily the building itself, the boys love that, the problem begins when the building is done.

For there is a huge amount of hostility around the idea of men’s spaces, especially refuges, and to make it harder there’s quite literally no funding to help build them.

Many of tried of course, but each have fallen at the wayside of contempt, anger, neglect, outrage, or apathy.

For the world will congratulate and pat you firmly on the back for building spaces for vulnerable women escaping violent homes, and rightly so.

Just don’t expect that to last if you try to do the same for the men and boys.

The smiles will drop, the funding vanishes.

The proud face of joy turns to a snarled lip of contempt.

Reminding us that the problem is not what men can or can’t do, because building is easily, the issue is… what are men allowed to do?

So tell me, would you ever open a refuge for men?

Could you?