I can't do this without you
My entire “game plan” for TheTinMen for the past six years has simply been to create as much content as I can, at the highest possible quality, with the most reliable statistics, and the rest will sort itself out.
Who knows –
Maybe some publisher or newspaper will sponsor me, maybe a brand steps in, or perhaps a rich angel investor with a blank cheque will slide into my DMs…
To be honest I didn’t think too much about it.
My time was spent trying to build a proof of concept; one that shows these issues matter, and that there’s enough of us caring and talking about them to do something about it.
The problem is, as I now realise, these topics are not particularly popular with the mainstream.
And that those in this space with the pockets deep enough to help fund me, splash about in the shallow end of kind slogans and hashtags, and I, neck deep in the mud of ugly advocacy, would only dirty up their shiny shoes by association.
Who knew that talking about men and boys who are raped, and abused, who are betrayed by our government, by our politicians and the charity sector, by our legal and education system, would be so unpopular?
Sadly, ‘men are 41% of abuse victims’ doesn’t look quite so good on a tote bag, does it?
The second reality that is fast dawning on me, is my method of funding this will soon be at an end, and when that ends, so does everything else.
So here I am, humbly cap in hand, asking for help.
And I know.
These conversations should be financed by someone else; by government, by brands, by healthcare providers, and other large charities, but they are not here, you are.
So if you have a shared interest in helping (the newly incorporated) TheTinMen CIC to keep going, to keep creating daily content that is unapologetic, and dives headfirst into the mud of controversy, then please support me at:
Thetinmen.blog/donate
Or
Patreon.com/thetinmen
Thank you
George