International Men's Day 2025: Celebrating Men and Boys Amid Health Crisis and Global Webcast

It's funny how we celebrate men only when they're dying. We cheer the athletes, the fathers, the heroes - but when a man sits quietly in his car after work, crying because he can't pay the bills or feel like a man anymore, we call it weakness. Masculinity isn't about stoicism. It's about showing up even when you're broken. And honestly? We need more spaces where men can just be - no trophies, no lectures, no hashtags. Just presence.

Let’s be real - this whole movement is just a distraction. Women have been fighting for decades just to be heard, and now men want a whole day? Meanwhile, men still dominate boardrooms, politics, and even the suicide stats because they refuse to admit they’re struggling. This isn’t solidarity - it’s guilt-driven performative activism dressed up as compassion.

Agreed. But let’s not confuse the symptom with the disease. The problem isn’t the day - it’s the silence we’ve normalized. Men don’t need more campaigns. They need someone to sit with them. Not fix them. Not preach to them. Just sit. And if you’re a man reading this - you’re not weak for needing that. You’re human.

OMG I just cried watching the webcast teaser 😭 I mean, how can we ignore this?? My dad never talked about his anxiety and now he’s gone… I wish someone had just said, ‘Hey, I’m here.’ Not ‘You’re strong.’ Not ‘Man up.’ Just ‘I’m here.’ 💔

I’ve seen men in my family bury their pain under chai and cricket. My uncle worked 16-hour days for 30 years, never complained, never went for a checkup. Got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer last year. He said, ‘I didn’t want to be a burden.’ That’s the real tragedy - not the stats. It’s the quiet surrender.

So… we’re having a 9-hour livestream to talk about men dying faster… while the same men are being told to ‘man up’ in every Bollywood movie? The irony is thicker than my dad’s morning chai.

I run a small workshop for guys who lost their jobs during the pandemic. We don’t talk about therapy. We fix bikes together. Talk about kids. Share stories. One guy cried the third week - said it was the first time he felt safe being quiet. That’s all it takes. Not a campaign. Just a space where you don’t have to be perfect.

Men have it easy. They get paid more, get first choice in everything, and now they want sympathy because they won’t ask for help? Grow up. Stop whining. If you don’t want to die young, stop being lazy and take care of yourself. It’s not rocket science.

I’ve been a nurse for 22 years. I’ve seen men come in with heart attacks because they ignored chest pain for six months. I’ve seen them refuse blood tests because ‘it’s not manly.’ I’ve seen them cry in the waiting room after their wife left, and then pretend they’re fine when the doctor walks in. The real crisis isn’t testosterone or prostate cancer - it’s the belief that being a man means never being seen as vulnerable. And that belief? It’s killing them. Slowly. Quietly. And no one notices until it’s too late.

The structural barriers are massive - lack of accessible mental health services in rural areas, patriarchal norms embedded in family systems, workplace cultures that equate emotional expression with incompetence. We need policy-level interventions: mandatory mental health check-ins for male employees, subsidized screenings for men over 30, community-based peer networks funded by state health departments. Without systemic change, awareness campaigns are just performative noise.

Thank you for writing this with such clarity. I’ve shared it with my son’s school. He’s 11. We talked about emotions today. Not as something to fix, but as something to feel. He said, ‘So it’s okay to cry if I’m sad?’ I said, ‘Yes. Especially then.’ We’re raising a generation that doesn’t have to choose between being strong and being human. That’s the real legacy.

Think about this: every time a man says ‘I’m fine,’ he’s not lying - he’s protecting himself. From judgment. From pity. From being seen as less of a man. The silence isn’t indifference. It’s armor. And the problem isn’t that men don’t feel - it’s that society taught them that feeling is dangerous. So they bury it. Until it turns into something worse. Maybe the real question isn’t why men die young - but why we let them suffer in silence for so long.

MARK MY WORDS - this is all a psyop! The elite are using ‘men’s health’ to distract us from the real agenda: erasing masculinity! Did you know the WHO is funded by the same corporations that sell antidepressants? And why November 19? It’s 11/19 - binary code for ‘101101’ - which translates to ‘submit to gender fluidity’ in the Illuminati’s secret language! They’re turning men into emotional robots so they can control the next generation! Wake up! The webcast is a trap! Don’t click! Don’t watch! Don’t cry! THEY WANT YOU TO BREAK!

Policy gaps are real, but cultural norms are the root. The state can fund clinics, but if a father still tells his son ‘boys don’t cry,’ no amount of legislation will change that. We need grassroots cultural reprogramming - through schools, media, religious institutions. Men’s health isn’t a medical issue - it’s a civilizational one.

I work with single dads in my neighborhood. One of them brought his 8-year-old to our weekly coffee meetups. The kid sat quietly, then said, ‘Daddy, you’re not sad anymore, right?’ That moment - that’s the change. Not the webcast. Not the stats. That little voice asking if his dad is okay… that’s what matters.

India is the only country where men actually care about this! Look at the West - they’re busy canceling masculinity and calling it progress. Here we still have real men - farmers, laborers, fathers - who work till they drop. And now the world wants us to cry on livestreams? Bah! We don’t need pity. We need respect. And maybe a decent pension. 🇮🇳💪

It’s all a scam. Men have been dying since the dawn of time. Why now? Because someone made a video. And now the media’s cashing in. Wake up. This isn’t about health. It’s about clicks.