To The Men The World Overlooks

From our beginning, we have sounded the alarm on the boy crisis: falling college enrollment, rising suicide rates, loneliness epidemics, workplace deaths, family court biases, and a culture that too often tells men their struggles don’t matter. We have published the stories mainstream women’s media won’t touch: the crisis in education and mental health, the young men drowning in gambling and porn addiction, the importance of fathers, the husbands told to “man up” while carrying impossible loads alone.

Today, on International Men’s Day, the founders, editors, and writers of Evie want to say something simple and long overdue: thank you.

Thank you to the men who get up before dawn to keep the lights on, the roads paved, the shelves stocked, and the country defended. Thank you to the boyfriends and husbands who work so hard, the brothers who drop everything when we call crying, the fathers who would do anything for their families. Thank you for the quiet sacrifices no one applauds: the dangers you face, the emotions you swallow, the dreams you postpone so someone else can chase theirs.

Thank you for the quiet sacrifices no one applauds: the dangers you face, the emotions you swallow, the dreams you postpone so someone else can chase theirs.

For too long, men have been told their lives are privileged and their losses are justice. We reject that lie.

We believe a harmonious world isn’t built by demanding men become “better for women” while ignoring what women could do better for men. Real partnership means both sides showing up, with honesty, humility, and fierce loyalty. It means women defending men the way we want men to defend us. It means calling out misandry with the same energy we bring to misogyny. It means admitting that tearing men down does not lift women up; it only leaves everyone broken.

Evie is proud, maybe even a little lonely, to be the only major women’s publication that consistently covers male mental health, educational, and economic challenges without apology or caveat. We will keep doing it, because our sons, brothers, fathers, husbands, and friends deserve advocates too. Because strong men and strong women are not enemies; our partnership is the bedrock of humanity.

So today we are not asking men to be anything more than they already are. We are simply saying: we see you. We love you. We need you, exactly as you are.

Happy International Men’s Day to every boy and man reading this. Your lives matter. Your pain is real. Your contributions are irreplaceable.

We’ve got your back.

With gratitude and love,
The Founder, Editors & Writers of Evie Magazine