Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, in my opinion, is a waste of time. Every June, it returns to the calendar and passes with little more than token gestures. We tick the box, hold a few events, and then move on. But where is the meaningful change? Where is the urgency? Like Father’s Day, ironically, in the same month, the silence around supporting men is deafening.

Men continue to suffer, their struggles trivialised as jokes or reduced to casual talking points. These are the same men who sacrifice daily for their families, yet their pain is dismissed. Men are too often branded unworthy of compassion, judged collectively for the crimes and immoral actions of a few. This is not an excuse for men who commit harm. Those men must be held accountable. But how is it just that fathers, brothers, uncles, and sons are treated as less than dirt because some men are morally corrupt? It is not just. And yet society clings to this sweeping generalisation, justifying cruelty with prejudice.

The hostility towards men has created a mindset in which men’s mental health is dismissed as trivial, their struggles unseen. Some even believe men have no issues at all. This toxic ideology insists that men must be tough, macho, and silent, solving every problem alone.