We are finally talking about this now eh? I lost a cousin over 12 years ago, vanished into thin air. Nobody cared. Especially the RCMP. Much like all these guys. A few posters and a lazy facebook post was all my beloved cousin ever got.
My favourite part of the article is this:
National statistics reflect a severe and often overlooked reality regarding violence against Indigenous men:
Between 1980 and 2012, Statistics Canada documented 1,750 Indigenous male homicide victims, compared to 745 Indigenous female homicide victims.
In this timeframe, 71% of all murdered and missing Indigenous people were men and boys.
According to 2020 Statistics Canada data, Indigenous men are seven times more likely to die by homicide than non-Indigenous people, and four times more likely than Indigenous women.
We hear so much about missing indigenous women. I had no idea the stat for men was 4 times higher. Why doesn’t anyone care?
There is almost certainly an active serial killer operating on the mid island for years now, and I hear random people saying this more and more. Sadly we are on our own over here it seems.
Strange, because that is 100% the source of all misandry, like how any attempt to bring political attention to men’s issues is painted as “misogyny”, simply because it’s men who are being paid attention to.
Such as domestic violence. Did you know that if you look at only non-reciprocal physical violence - as in, only one person is doing the physical striking - 71% of victims are men?
And yet, who is protesting the most loudly when people try to open up DV shelters for battered men using the same public funding that women’s shelters enjoy? Small clue: they invariably identify with the term you mentioned.
71%. You’d think there would be more shelters for a 71% proportion of physically-assaulted victims. And yet, while North America has tens of thousands of shelters for the other 29%, it has only three for the 71%.
Three. In all of North America. Because public funding for it is lethally radioactive to political careers.