Simon Esler

CANADA'S MEN AND BOYS DESERVE BETTER THAN IDEOLOGICALLY FILTERED CONSULTATION The Canadian Government has released its 40-page report, “What We Heard: National Conversation on Men and Boys’ Health and Well-being”. While acknowledging serious male disadvantages, the report raises troubling questions about whether government is genuinely listening to men, or simply filtering their concerns through a predetermined ideological framework... The statistics are devastating: 🔹 Men die by suicide at THREE TIMES the female rate. 🔹 Men experience more than DOUBLE the female rate of preventable deaths. 🔹 Men live approximately FOUR YEARS less than women. 🔹 Nearly THREE-QUARTERS of opioid toxicity deaths involve males. Yet the report repeatedly emphasises changing masculine attitudes, challenging traditional stereotypes and encouraging men to seek help... What about changing the institutions that are failing men? The consultation attracted 5,246 questionnaire responses, 67.4% from men. But participation alone doesn't establish that men's perspectives shaped the conclusions. The questionnaire itself privileged assumptions about problematic masculine stereotypes. Meanwhile, the final report gives insufficient attention to: ❌ Boys' educational disadvantage and institutional discrimination. ❌ Male victims of domestic and sexual violence. ❌ Separated fathers and family justice concerns. ❌ Positive traditional masculine strengths. ❌ Accountability for healthcare systems failing male patients. This suggests troubling traces of Gamma Bias: recognising male suffering while inadequately examining institutional responsibility and male victimhood. Canada needs a genuinely male-positive national strategy, not another exercise in correcting masculinity... Health Canada should publish its consultation methodology, engage diverse male advocacy organisations, investigate sex-based institutional disadvantages, fund male-specific services and establish measurable targets for improving male outcomes. Men and boys aren't problems to be fixed. They are citizens deserving dignity, empathy, fairness and effective public services. LISTEN TO MEN. RESPECT MASCULINITY. FIX FAILING INSTITUTIONS. DELIVER RESULTS. #MensHealth #BoysMatter #MaleSuicidePrevention #GenderEqualityForMen #MensEqualityMonth

Outnumbered. Me vs 10 trans-identified people.

The biggest unreported story from yesterday: Carney snuck into the budget a massive immigration increase with the LARGEST NUMBER OF NEW PERMANENT RESIDENTS EVER next year. Nearly 200,000 more than Trudeau’s highest-ever number year. When we have a shortage of jobs, homes, and health care. Now we know why Carney snuck his immigration plan into a budget when everyone was distracted by the midterms and right before Parliament shuts for 10 days. Unacceptable. This needs a real debate.

A BC tribunal just told LifeLabs the sex on your health card is not about your body. It is about how you identify. They ordered the company to pay three people more than thirty-two thousand dollars. One refused to choose male or female for a blood test. Another wanted their gender marker changed right there at the counter. A staffer wrote FTM on a form and that cost money too. The tribunal said a big company can just reprogram its system, retrain every employee, and set up private spaces. But blood tests use different ranges for men and women. When those ranges get ignored so feelings come first, who takes responsibility if the results are wrong? Is the goal accurate medicine or just being affirmed? #HealthCard #LifeLabs #BloodTests

The American College of Pediatricians just put out a 🔥🔥🔥 statement calling out all the major medical associations by name for pushing the gender transition craze on kids. They ask for these groups to "IMMEDIATELY stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex." The full @ACPeds statement ⬇️ "Therefore, given the recent research and the revelations of the harmful approach advocated by WPATH and its followers in the United States, we, the undersigned, call upon the medical professional organizations of the United States, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the  Endocrine Society, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex.  Instead, these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological co-morbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria. We also encourage the physicians who are members of these professional organizations to contact their leadership and urge them to adhere to the evidence-based research now available.”

SITREP: ACCOUNTABILITY. THE NEXT TWO YEARS. America, We lost last night. Full stop. I’m not interested in sugarcoating it, making excuses, or listening to another round of political consultants or pundits explain away failure. Again, full stop! In the military, when you lose ground, you don’t stand around congratulating yourself for a job well done. You figure out what went wrong, who was responsible, and what needs to change. Washington could use a serious lesson in that kind of leadership. For too long, Americans have listened to promises about accountability, government reform, fiscal responsibility, secure elections, and defending our constitutional freedoms. Enough promises. Where are the results? The American people deserve answers, not another fundraising email. Not another carefully scripted press conference. Not another politician telling us to wait until the next election. The next two years cannot be business as usual. We must examine why we lost. Where was the organization? Where was the leadership? Where was the follow-through? If we cannot answer those questions, we have learned absolutely nothing. I spent more than 33 years serving this nation in uniform. One lesson never changed: failure without accountability guarantees more failure. Our children and grandchildren will inherit the consequences of what we do, or fail to do, over the next two years. NO MORE EXCUSES. NO MORE EMPTY PROMISES. ACCOUNTABILITY STARTS NOW. And surf this wave like your life and our nation depend on it…because they do.

You've avoided nearly all of my questions, Norah, because you're literally incapable of answering them. Your mind is firmly closed to any evidence or facts that undermine your preferred narrative. You consider it immoral for anyone to even question you, even though you voluntarily and confidently entered this discussion. You're like a flat-earther. Nothing I or anyone else says to you will permeate your stubborn quasi-religious beliefs, because to change your mind would take away a core part of your self image, which is as somebody who is kinder and better and more righteous than the nasty people still advocating for the safety of women and girls. You repeat your thought-terminating clichés and unevidenced assertions, which I assume sound clever inside your echo chamber, but which, outside it, make you appear not only dim, but a total moral vacuum. Increased risk to females? Who cares. Women threatened by violence? Of course those poor trans-identified men lash out when they meet resistance! What is a gender identity? You can't really say, but like the flat-earther, you're sure it exists, because your tribe is held together by belief in it, and pride themselves on their blind faith in it. I keep waiting for a single gender ideologue or trans activist to truly engage with the facts, but all of you sheer away from them like horses from fireworks. It truly is like talking to cult members who're incapable of engaging in rational debate and just keep chanting the mantras, consigning all serious questions to the 'evil' bin. I've been told I'm on the wrong side of history thousands of times. By debating people like you, I've come to realise that your ilk's idea of the 'right side of history' means stripping women and girls' of their rights, excusing male violence against women, siding with those issuing death and rape threats and attempting to suppress critical thought and freedom of speech. Maybe, like the flat-earthers, you genuinely think history will vindicate you. I believe people will look back on this period and analyse your arguments, not because they admire them, but because they're trying to fathom how so many supposedly intelligent people fell, hook, line and sinker for a bunch of vacuous, post-modern, pseudo-intellectual cobblers, while being completely indifferent to the real world harm they were enabling.

There was an episode for anything

Another beautiful to Sir Patrick Steward tribute that I ran across on Reddit If the creator of this would let me know, I am happy to flag it Collection of scenes from Star Trek: The Next Generation I'm not crying, you're crying! Paying tribute to a great actor and a fine human being