International Men’s Day, celebrated on November 19, is suppose to highlight men’s mental and physical health issues, but the University of York decided to cancel the event under pressure from feminists. The event was cancelled just 24 hours after a 21-year-old committed suicide on campus.
The suicide did nothing to let up the social justice warriors, because men committing suicide is a sad statistic, not a call to action.
Milo Yiannopoulos reported for Breitbart that the police were called at 2:30 AM Monday that a male student had life threatening injuries form a self-inflected wound. He later died in the hospital.
Just hours later, 200 staff, students, and alumni signed a letter demanding that the university pull support International Men’s Day that focuses on men’s mental health.
SJW decried that the school’s ideal of “equality for everyone” as “misogynistic rhetoric.”
“We believe that men’s issues cannot be approached in the same way as unfairness and discrimination towards women, because women are structurally unequal to men,” the signatories, which included the student union LGBTQ and Women’s Officers and lecturers from Politics, English, Philosophy, History and Law Departments, said in the letter according to student newspaper Nouse.
The University of York buckled immediately, canceling the International Men’s Day less than 24 hours after one of their own killed himself.
Male students were depressed by the fact that their health issues were treated a second class.
“As a student currently going through a rough time and struggling a bit with mental health, I think it’s sad to know that the university isn’t willing to address these issues given that the biggest killer of men under 45 is suicide and that it effectively doesn’t care,” a male student told Breitbart.
Another student, Matthew Edwards, requested that the school install a Men’s Officer on campus but York’s Women’s Officer Ananna Zaman ridiculed his suggestion on social media.
Nearly 2,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the school celebrate International Men’s Day.