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White men account for 70% of Michigan suicides, and other suicide facts

Chaz042

June 9, 2018
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Title White men account for 70% of Michigan suicides, and other suicide facts
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Chaz042

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Date June 9, 2018 5:42 PM UTC
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[–][deleted] 212 points213 points214 points 8 years ago (99 children) | Copy Link

that's insane. They should just use their male privilege and get a better life!

[–]milakaix 75 points76 points77 points 8 years ago (17 children) | Copy Link

Their white too that's +1000 privilege points.

[–]peskysquirms 27 points28 points29 points 8 years ago (15 children) | Copy Link

Sadly those points did not translate well into the racist point system used by Michigan until it was banned. I'm sure many of these suicides were individuals who were denied admission to college for being born white and with penis. And now theyre dead because they were denied prospects in favor of less qualified candidates.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points11 points 8 years ago* (14 children) | Copy Link

pesky, bro.

MI is 13.7% black, if 100 men at random suicide in MI, thats gonna be 86 white guys and 14 black guys.

editing

actually some people are neither black or white, so if 100 men suicide at random in MI you'll get

79 white guys, 14 black guys, and 8 other dudes.

[–]PIG_CUNT 7 points8 points9 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

HUGE error in your “math.” 79/100 people in Michigan are white... Half men and half women. 39% of the population are white males.

And only 72% of those males are adults, leaving 28% of the state's population committing 70% of suicides.

[–][deleted] -4 points-3 points-2 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

The issue I was addressing here was 'is this a racial issue' so I was talking specifically about male suicide. I said, "if 100 MEN at random suicide in MI...."

not if 100 people at random suicide in MI

what is really funny is that I did (deliberately) include a small, obvious math error, just to get people to comment with 'um, actually. ..' but no one has even noticed that my percentages add up to 101%.

[–]PIG_CUNT 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

No, nobody gave a shit that you rounded.

[–]NaturalisticPhallacy 5 points6 points7 points 8 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

Yeah, but they're comprising 70% when it should be closer to 36% because women exist.

[–]xNxHxLx 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Men fail less at killing themselves than women

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

. .. . .

uh huh, I mean, thats kind of what the whole thread is about.

[–]PIG_CUNT 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

It's only 28% because only 72% of white males in MI are adults.

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

That's incorrect.

American men on average make up 80% of all suicides. If 100 people were to kill themselves in America, 80 of them would be men.

Whites also make up about 80% of Americans.

So if you had 100 people suicide, 80 would be men. Of that 80 male suicides, 80% of the 80 would be white men, so you would be left with 64.

So of all the suicides in this country, if the suicide rate were equal with all of the races, when you account population size, 64% of suicides should be white men, just because there are so many whites and so many white men.

[–]peskysquirms 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

Oh I know, but my statement doesn't rely on the stats. :)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

as long as you are not deceived, and deliberately choose to be concerned about only certain men, that's on you.

I liked the poem you posted earlier, even if I was a bit disappointed by it's motivation.

[–]peskysquirms 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I didn't say I was only concerned about certain men, I just provided an example that is unique in some way to certain men.

I'm not disappointed by my poem's motivation. Defend the tarnished name of men including the white ones? Well, maybe, but I'm not a big fan of the history of 'man' even if I am providing one perspective. However, I am a big fan of myself and the validity of my experience.

Thanks for your likin'.

[–]peskysquirms 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

I updated the poem by the way, it's more put-together now. ;)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Just write new ones man, keep them as they are, one day some pesky historian may want to trace the development of your style and or technique.

To me, it has become more so prose than poetry in it's current form - but do not do these things to please me or any other audience, just do it to express yourself.

[–]peskysquirms 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yeah I may publish someday. I'm 200 years ahead of my time as far as prose goes. ;)

[–]maluminse 15 points16 points17 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Good point.

[–]treesstem 27 points28 points29 points 8 years ago (78 children) | Copy Link

Here's an idea -- just throwing it out there -- more is expected of white men. But it's difficult to succeed in this shit economy, especially when white men are discriminated against. So the burden of expectations harshly contrasts with reality. And therefore white men are more likely to kill themselves. That's just a theory, but it may have some merit.

Edit: And I stress the word men, because there aren't really any expectations for women, beyond existing. Men need to prove themselves.

Edit 2: I also think men (not just white men) want to feel useful, but again, our current system actually works against us in this regard.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points12 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I also think men (not just white men) want to feel useful, but again, our current system actually works against us in this regard.

Yes. Do not let them divide and conquer. MEN is who they don't care about.

[–]daviddavidson29 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (62 children) | Copy Link

Shit economy? Where?

[–]treesstem 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (61 children) | Copy Link

Pretty much everywhere. A good economy would be an economy where if I wanted a job, some employer would beg for my participation.

[–]daviddavidson29 -2 points-1 points0 points 8 years ago (60 children) | Copy Link

If you are trained in a niche job and your area has a high demand, for example orthopaedic surgeons, you will likely find firms pitching hard for your services. But most jobs require you to give an effort to get noticed, even in a good economy. Doesn't mean the economy is bad, you just have to look around and network in the field you want to be in. I mean, to expect someone to beg for your employment is a little entitled and unrealistic, no offense

[–]PIG_CUNT 4 points5 points6 points 8 years ago (57 children) | Copy Link

Found the guy who has never been to a place with a shit economy.

Yes, in a niche job in high demand you may have opportunities. The problem is, in a shit economy, there is no economic demand.

If you're a specialized surgeon, yes, people around you do have need for your services. But when nobody's building hospitals you can't get that job.

Visit Detroit and then you'll understand.

[–]daviddavidson29 -2 points-1 points0 points 8 years ago (56 children) | Copy Link

Isn't unemployment improving in Detroit?

Yes, see: http://www.dailydetroit.com/2017/06/01/city-detroit-sees-lowest-unemployment-rate-16-years/

Maybe a medical field was a bad example because it require you to get off your ass and become employable. You also demonstrate that you don't know much about demand for surgeons. Hospitals make room for them If one wants to join, because they bring in revenue.

If you're looking for someone to hire a low skilled worker, there are 3000 jobs listed under the keyword "technician" on indeed.com for Detroit.

[–]PIG_CUNT 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (55 children) | Copy Link

Ooh, look how triggered you got. Unemployment being less bad doesn’t mean it’s not still a shit economy, LOL

And me using a hypothetical doesn’t mean I chose that field.

And your reading comprehension sucks because hospitals don’t always make room for every worker, not even every higher-tier worker.

You failed spectacularly here. LOL

[–]daviddavidson29 -1 points0 points1 point 8 years ago (54 children) | Copy Link

My reading comprehension sucks? Specifically was talking about surgeons, and you said

hospitals don’t always make room for every worker, not even every higher-tier worker.

Yes, hospitals make room to add surgeons to staff because the pie literally grows when you add them. They bring their patients with them.

Interesting that you devolve into ad hominem very quickly when the facts come out. You must be a leftist. You should work on your ability to carry a conversation instead of being a troll.

[–]PIG_CUNT 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago* (53 children) | Copy Link

LOL, no, your reading comprehension must suck because I wasn’t talking about existing hospitals. I clearly talked about people not building enough hospitals.

Furthermore, no, they don’t always hire every single worker, including higher tier worker. For example, sometimes there’s not enough demand from the market, and sometimes there are not enough beds.

Surgeons more often than not don’t bring their patients with them. The majority of surgical business is not repeat business for the same diagnosis.

Funny that you claim I’m making an ad hominem attack when I pointed out that the error in your argument was caused by your poor reading comprehension, not a personal attack unrelated to your argument.

Funnier that you then made an authentic and baseless ad hominem attack. How retarded are you to assume that just because you incorrectly believe that I’m wrong, I must be a leftist?

In my opinion, very retarded.

You: (typing furiously because your mind is firmly closed... something you hate leftists for, right?)

HAHA

[+]treesstem -6 points-5 points-4 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

I do okay. But I'm not a capitalist. That would require my being a hypocrite.

[–]PIG_CUNT 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

  1. How are you not a capitalist? Do you earn or spend no money at all?

  2. How are capitalists hypocrites?

[–]AltRightCringe -1 points0 points1 point 8 years ago (13 children) | Copy Link

Here’s an idea, just throwing it out there—the mostly white legislature across the country passed drug laws that locked up millions of black men for non violent drug crimes, so yeah maybe society seems to expect more from white men but it also seems to criminalize black men more.

And yes I’m saying that most black crime Is a result of the drug war, in Colorado you have white men becoming millionaires from their weed startups for selling the same exact product that black men sold on the streets for decades. It’s a selective economic prohibition of goods that deprived an entire industry to black men despite mostly white owned pharmaceutical companies selling millions of people drugs with side effects ranging from stroke to heart attacks but black men were the real threat because they sold some weed on the street corner lol.

[–]polakfury 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (12 children) | Copy Link

so yeah maybe society seems to expect more from white men but it also seems to criminalize black men more

Because they commit more crime through higher volume?

[–]AltRightCringe 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (11 children) | Copy Link

Sure they do considering that a massive war on drugs targets them for non violent drug arrests and gives them harsher sentences for the same crimes committed. Funny how we somehow believe that the sentencing gap between men and women is due to bias against men but the one between whites and blacks is the fault of blacks “committing more crime”.

Men commit more crime on average I guess that means men aren’t criminalized more than women? The deserve it cuz they commit more “crime by volume” that it?

[–]polakfury 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (10 children) | Copy Link

Sure they do considering that a massive war on drugs targets them for non violent drug arrests and gives them harsher sentences for the same crimes committed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIpcxy9M1pw

[–]AltRightCringe 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (9 children) | Copy Link

Lol alt right fluffer/dog whistler posing as a “liberal” repeats racist bullshit about black crime. Shocking.

[–]polakfury 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (8 children) | Copy Link

Lol retard low iq mouth breather has no comeback for actual facts/ sources on black crime. Resorts to verbal attack. Other redditors not shocked. World Continues to rotate.

[–]AltRightCringe 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

Lol retard white trash “race realist” sperglord cites Sargon of Akkad video as fact instead of the alt right dog whistling it is. Sperglord thinks he has proven his point and goes back to bitching about non existent white genocide.

[–]polakfury 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

Lol retard white trash “race realist” sperglord cites Sargon of Akkad video as fact instead of the alt right dog whistling it is.

lol retard doesnt compute that Sargon of Akkad is not right wing and cant connect dots on facts. regarding crime nor cant read. it confused and resorts to grade school verbal atatcks. Looks like nerd soy boy neckbeard with no where to go but down.

[–]DickAnhdbols 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

BUT YOU'RE A WHITE MALE!! Get your sexist, racist, rapist shenanigans out of here and show Al Sharpton some respect!

All jokes aside, any suicide is horrible, but when it's consistently one demographic doing so overwhelmingly, good grief let's help these men. I bet there is probably a lack of psychiatric and psychological help in their area. Damn I hope this trend reverses.

[–]maluminse 27 points28 points29 points 8 years ago (48 children) | Copy Link

Why is this? Maybe the prospects of old age without sufficient resources? But many or some affluent do this also.

[–]peskysquirms 56 points57 points58 points 8 years ago (47 children) | Copy Link

Getting shit on constantly and being used just to make money while others get actual love and free rides to college based on sex and skin color, probably. It's a lack of love.

[–]MaleficentCaptain340 points 8 years ago [recovered] (8 children) | Copy Link

Isn't it fascinating how speaking out about a lack of love is met with, of all the ironic responses, immense hostility?

Men are killing themselves at higher rates across the board, and the response from people like KorvisKhan is the tiniest manifestation of the fundamental reason why.

Ask yourselves, readers, why someone like KorvisKhan would get so angry about people speaking out about others killing themselves from a lack of love? Why would talking about a lack of love incite such hostility and anti-social meanderings?

Other factors like hormone deficiency are more prevalent in white people than other races, leading them to be more prone to depression and suicide.

Notice how that's simply handwaved away as "the way it as" and as an excuse. They just are, so it's OK, because it is. Change the group and you'd never see that be an appropriate response. That's how you know they're hypocrites. Change the group and watch how their rants become hate speech.

There is no clearer example of the diseased elements of our society, than the hostility brought about from pointing out those who have no love and end their lives because of it. The hostile and dismissive responses show an unconscious element at play that only the naive would ignore.

[–]peskysquirms 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

Indeed, a lack of love. Hard to get through when you are a lover by nature. But strike me down, and I shall become more powerful than the enemy can ever imagine. ;)

Thanks for the love brah.

[–]MaleficentCaptain32 points 8 years ago [recovered] (2 children) | Copy Link

Thanks for the love brah.

NO ONE ever showed me love. You all just made fun of me and excluded me and constantly told me that "you have shit genes because you're not attractive, you deserve suffering," so personally, I'm killing myself in the next couple of months because of life circumstance and, again, not even being a human being in any meaningful sense. Maybe those posts gave insight into the minds you all should save, but then again, maybe the minds are this way because you want them to be because it's entertaining and validating to put others down and exclude them or give them platitudes and then do the same.

Brah. ;) You all talk a mean game, but then you don't even show up...

[–]peskysquirms 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

Hey, I'm on your side man, I was supporting what you said. Astute observations, and well said.

Yeah, most people are shit. I may flood them off the face of the earth. You want on the Ark?

I always favor kamikaze. Just sayin'.

Other than that, some form of creative outlet kills time.

I kind of want to go to a commune, if I could find one with decent people.

They're fundin' 3.8 billion for some bitches to go get taught in Africa or somethin', while I don't get fundin' to save the world. Priorities!

[–]peskysquirms 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I think an important step is to make people realize and face their sin by explaining it to them. That's the best way to ensure they are held accountable for what they've done. If they don't understand, they won't know, and they can avoid it. And it is merciful to make sure they don't avoid justice, for the future's sake, for some form of humanity that isn't rotten. So don't feel guilty when you make them know.

[+]KorvisKhan -24 points-23 points-22 points 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

Spare me your preachy reddit ass kissing PC SJW bullshit. Notice you conveniently left out the most important factor in white male suicide

Whites make up more than 70% of the US population, therefore have the highest suicide rate relative to the population size.

FTFY

You're dismissed.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points11 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Jesus. chill out bro. Research and education are the only way to actually solve problems, unless you’d prefer lobbing insults on the internet as an alternative?

[–]misfortunecookies 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Are you stupid?

"By race, 88 percent of those who died by suicide between 1999 and 2016 were white, regardless of gender. By gender, 80 percent were men, regardless of race."

Whites, and white males in particular, are well-documented to be the most suicidal people in America. White men have, by far, the smallest social circles of any demographic. The suicide rate is not a simple reflection of there being more whites than other peoples. Whites are killing themselves more frequently than other races, and by a decent margin.

[+]KorvisKhan -12 points-11 points-10 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Didn't read your comment. Hope you didn't spend too much time on it.

[–]AltRightCringe 4 points5 points6 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yeah except most of affirmative action goes to white women. Not black men.

[–]memesplaining 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yes

[+][deleted] -16 points-15 points-14 points 8 years ago (9 children) | Copy Link

Black men have been in the same predicament for literally 2 centuries, never had this problem.

White men set unrealistic expectations for their lives (based on passed discrimination) and feel like failures when they can't meet them. You're not all doctors, lawyers, or CEOs, sorry but your not getting the he white guy handout anymore.

[–]MaleficentCaptain314 points 8 years ago [recovered] (7 children) | Copy Link

This "they're entitled snowflakes so they kill themselves because they didn't get a castle and a CEO position" is so fucking tired...

...all you're doing is dividing the races by telling men to eat shit because people who existed before your birth did so and sometimes you feel the remnants of that so you tell everyone else they deserve shit and any complaints are just them being little pussies who need to man up.

YOU are why people kill themselves. Because unfortunately, among other things, among dwindling economic prospects and a society without values where single mothers and divorces is the norm, modern day "diversity" isn't about us all getting along, it's about vendettas and angry feelings from the past. This is why there's pushback. Because this isn't about getting along. It's about eating shit. And being told eating shit is what you deserve. But we should all get along, and if you kill yourself, it's because you're a pussy who didn't man up.

[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points-1 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I don't think r/HeNeverLies4 is wrong.

There are a lot of reasons to think that suicide is, in large part (and especially for men), a response to frustrated expectations. White men tend to be socialized to have higher expectations of themselves than men from other racial backgrounds. Other than in their teens, the stand-out spike in suicides for white men is in middle age, which is the time of life where our personal, social and career limitations begin to make themselves pronounced.

You don't have to blame white men to see the spike in suicides among their demographic as a sociologically predictable reaction.

[+][deleted] -11 points-10 points-9 points 8 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

Offer me why my father (a black man) literally faced every single one of those problems white men (supposedly) face today... But the suicide rate of black men has stayed consistent?

Like how you blaming "dwindling economic prospects" when black men have had literally NO economic prospects but never did any of this? Why? Think critically...

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points8 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Why are you holding up black men as though you have some idealize way of dealing with mistreatment? Black men commit a hugely disproportionate amount of violent crime, probably for similar reasons as white men committing suicide actually.

[–]misfortunecookies 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

White men have the smallest social circles of any demographic. Other races bond against the common enemy, the one socially acceptable enemy: The whites. You have parades, you have festivals, you celebrate your culture and your race in the streets. A black man sees a random black man on the subway, he pounds his heart for his brother. My black friend gets this all the time. It's far easier for him to make friends. White women bond together, they "go pee" together, gossip together, support each other. White men are the most isolated people in the world. Everywhere I go I feel that people are looking at me like I'm the enemy, yet I'm living in poverty. This is why white men kill themselves.

[–]peskysquirms 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yes, it is a lack of real support. Being alone in a world that offers you no support or affection, indeed even campaigning against opportunities for you to have communion with others like you, is rather isolating - hence, suicide rates.

[–]peskysquirms 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

Feminists don't even allow men's groups on campus generally. Certainly not white men's groups. I mean, maybe if you wanna masturbate over sports or computers together, but good options are limited.

You inspired me to poetry: https://np.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/8q2ggp/mens_rights_poem_slave_auction/

[–]Igloo32 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Bigotry comes in all shapes and sizes.

[+]KorvisKhan -21 points-20 points-19 points 8 years ago* (25 children) | Copy Link

Stop projecting your incel angst as factual data.

Whites make up more than 70% of the US population, therefore have the highest suicide rate relative to the population size. Other factors like hormone deficiency are more prevalent in white people than other races, leading them to be more prone to depression and suicide.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045216

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/7/2519/2598282

[+][deleted] -7 points-6 points-5 points 8 years ago* (24 children) | Copy Link

Speaking the truth to an angry crowd takes a special kind of courage of conviction that is all to rarely seen.

keep at it, we will not fall to the race baiters who seek only to divide us, unable or unwilling to keep their white rights chocolate the hell out of our men's rights peanut butter.

EDIT:

I guess I didn't notice that bit at the end but you know, no ones perfect. These particular numbers in the op do not bear out the idea that, in MI at least, white men are more likly to suicide. It seems to be exactly what you would expect if men were killing themselves accross the board with no effect from race at all.

[–]PMmepicsofyourtits 13 points14 points15 points 8 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

While white rights and mens rights are separate things with separate crowds, a lot of the people who demonize men are the same as those that demonize whites. There's a significant crossover.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 8 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

And if this post were about some subject that is affecting white men more so than black men, perhaps race would be relevant. This particular post tho is not that issue. It has a racially inflammatory, deceptive headline. True, but not true enough, it lies by omission. And the actual data is right there on the page

Whites are 88% of Michigan suicide deaths By race,

88 percent of those who died by suicide between 1999 and 2016 were white, regardless of gender.

By gender, 80 percent were men, regardless of race.

the top line is bolded on the OP page, and the others are not.

so you see, the page does contain the valid observation that this is NOT race related, but it is headed by those inflammatory misreadings, or irrelevant artifacts, of the data.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points 8 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

And if this post were about some subject that is affecting white men more so than black men

It is.

The rate of suicide is highest in middle age — white men in particular.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points1 point 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

perhaps, but not in the data presented in the OP. Deaths in MI specifically and in over some range of years.

the page you cite here is not broken down by gender, and I have a sneaky suspicion that the difference in rates between white and black people in this large data set may be down to a much larger rate among white women than among black women, but that's just a guess.

if you look here https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml

you can get a better breakdown, notice that white women in this data set have more than 3x the rate of black women (still not close to men) while white men have a rate only a bit over 2x the black rate.

But again, the topic at hand was the data in the OP. Anyway you slice and dice it tho, it comes up dead men, and this is mensrights, so why quibble over the color of the dead bodies.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

while white men have a rate only a bit over 2x the black rate

But that's a huge difference.

But again, the topic at hand was the data in the OP. Anyway you slice and dice it tho, it comes up dead men, and this is mensrights, so why quibble over the color of the dead bodies.

There could be different reasons for it by race. I'm not saying black men don't count or something, just that more white men do commit suicide more. I also noticed your source had Native American rates higher than whites while mine had them slightly lower. Perhaps it's because mine was the age-adjusted.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Yes it is, it is higher, twice as high and plus a bit.

But, and this is off topic for both the thread and the forum, lets face it black men have lots of other deaths to make up for it, if you have just men in some theoretical data set, and with magical eyes you can see the causes of suicide within it - not the method but the motive - ya know a lot of those causes are going to be economic and social. Well, culturally (and not racially) speaking, black men with economic and social issues have a wicked tendency to place themselves in harms way, and to die deaths that we will not call 'suicide' as such, but yeah, it's suicide.

[–]KorvisKhan -3 points-2 points-1 points 8 years ago (16 children) | Copy Link

These guys don't want the truth. They want to obscure it with racially motivated bias. There's no winning this kind of argument on reddit. Not because I'm lacking the facts to refute them, but because I'm outnumbered by people who share the same radical ideologies. Big coincidence the majority of reddit is white. The second I pulled the pity party out from under them they ganged up like the little hive they are and start using flimsy fake PC tactics to make me seem like I'm insensitive to their crying violin of a plight.

Plain and simple, there's nothing to suggest that white people are killing themselves more because they have it harder.

Whites make up more than 70% of the US population, therefore have the highest suicide rate relative to the population size.

You're not killing yourselves more because you have it harder. There are just more of you so the larger numbers seem significant.

Treat the problems that cause suicide for everyone. This isn't a racial issue. It's a human issue.

[–]peskysquirms 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

You lack empathy... but you keep talking about being empathetic, claiming you are.

Hypocrite, I smell thee.

[–]KorvisKhan 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

I don't lack empathy. I just disdain something as important as suicide being turned into a racial issue. This whole thread devolved into petty racial pandering and the importance of the issue was lost. Not that I feel the need to be accountable to you for how much empathy I do or don't have. But you're plainly wrong regardless.

[–]peskysquirms 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

There are many sides and shades to such an issue from which those who seek truth ne'er hide. And I know what I see. Vicious attacks combined with pretend-nobility to masquerade as a saint while simultaneously seeking censoring are the forte of a type of soul that is considered my enemy and generally sides against the rights of and for the good - SJWs, feminists, hateful vitriolic leftists, you know the type. :)

[–]peskysquirms 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

To clarify, the veil of "you can't complain because you ____" leads quickly to horrors. It leads inevitably to, and is the symptom of, hate. Hiding the light, it brings only darkness, and the very lowest of possible futures of pretend happiness.

At best such a one is trying to prioritize focus points. But dismissing genuine atrocities inevitably and instantly corrupts, so it is a dead end for change and resolution of pains. It also creates narrow tunnel vision which clouds judgment, preventing the possibility of appropriate, forthright activism, making discussion impossible and steering astray toward bigotry and cognitive dissonance as inconvenient facts are hidden from thought. Easier that way, but the quick path is the dark side dontchaknow. More painstaking to get all the Ps and Qs to line up consistently without narrowing one's focus, but attempts to silence those with the guts to aim higher broader and deeper aren't wise.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (9 children) | Copy Link

There are just more of you so the larger numbers seem significant.

No, white men do have a higher suicide rate, particularly middle aged white men.

The rate of suicide is highest in middle age — white men in particular.

I mean, you even acknowledged this in your other post.

"Other factors like hormone deficiency are more prevalent in white people than other races, leading them to be more prone to depression and suicide."

Treat the problems that cause suicide for everyone.

The problems may or may not be different for different groups of people.

[–]KorvisKhan -3 points-2 points-1 points 8 years ago (8 children) | Copy Link

Sorry, I don't have time to read your comment. Also, you're dismissed.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

Some people really can't handle being proven wrong.

[–]KorvisKhan -1 points0 points1 point 8 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

You're just not important enough for me to care. Maybe one day you'll blip on my radar. But not today. You're welcome to admire from afar though. You're dismissed.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

Yet here you are, replying again.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Ok well, yes it is but it also seems to be a men's issue, as 80% male is a hell of a lot more that just an artifact of population densities of men vs women.

anyway they DO want the truth, it's just that they are not starting from zero, they have preconceived notions and that inflammatory headline to egg them on. I believe the next time something like this comes up, and it may not be here on Reddit, some dude someplace who saw your contributions here will be more likely to call bullshit than would have otherwise been the case.

It's not that racism ends every time someone does this, I guess you could say, the difference is statistical.

[–]RubixCubeDonut 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

These guys don't want the truth.

Amusing considering you've explicitly said in other posts in this same conversation that you're not going to read others' posts.

Not sure if you're a troll or just a projecting idiot, but somewhat amused by your antics either way.

[–][deleted] 49 points50 points51 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

The misandry political industry and feminazis think it's a GOOD thing.

[–]Shippoyasha 15 points16 points17 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Radio silence versus their usual screeching

[–]ApostleOfAsclepius 21 points22 points23 points 8 years ago (9 children) | Copy Link

But 30% of suicides are women!!

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[–]EndTimesRadio 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

Ding ding ding. PoC suicide is falling, even male PoC, but male PoC suicide is still higher than PoC Women suicide.

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

Where does it say that PoC suicide is falling? The 70% statistic is high only because men make up 80% of all suicides and white men make up 80% of all men in America.

[–]EndTimesRadio 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36116166

"That figure is double the combined suicides total for all blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, American Indians, and Alaska Natives."

"The suicide rate declined for only two groups: black men and all people over 75."

(Sorry, thought it was PoC in general. They aren't experiencing a spike the way caucasian men are, regardless)

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

In 2014, more than 14,000 middle-aged white people killed themselves.

That figure is double the combined suicides total for all blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, American Indians, and Alaska Natives.

This doesn't really tell us anything conclusive to say that the rate of minorities suicides is dropping.

It's saying that in 2014, among white Americans ages 45 to 64, 14,000 killed themselves. Whites make up 77% of the country, so it's not a surprise that more whites commit suicides than every other racial group combined. If whites makes up 77% of the country, if the suicide rate is constant for each ethnicity, then they should make up 77% of the suicides.

What we would need is the rate of suicides of each racial group as well as whites and compare that. We don't get that with this article. Again, it is still horrific that men make up 80% of the suicides in the US, but we need to see clear data to show whether or not it is a larger problem in some racial groups than others. Off the top of my head, I feel that Native Americans might be the most troubled group, as I hear they have huge problems with alcoholism.

[–]EndTimesRadio 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

Non-hispanic white makes 62% of the country as of 2010 and falling precipitiously. It's likely sub-60%

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Sure, though in most cases people aren't able to distinguish the two and they would both be white. Celebrities like Frankie Munoz, Cameron Diaz or Louie CK could walk into a store in Alabama and nobody would bat an eye.

[–]EndTimesRadio 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Well yeah but nobody would bat an eye because nobody (in daily life) really cares what race you are

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Actually they do in almost every facet of life, but that's another discussion, the focus at hand is that men make up 80% of suicide cases.

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points32 points 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

uh huh, that is true, but I like

By gender, 80 percent were men, regardless of race.

personally as the men's rights headline, potato potato I suppose, as we are talking about Michigan, which is only 13.7% black on the whole anyway.

[–]Chaz042[S] 5 points6 points7 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

The 80% is why I posted it here.

Also, the 13.7% are back part of your comment didn't sound right l, so I looked it up, it's closer to 15%, but still, I didn't realize Michigan was 79.6% White. After looking at my county, I see why I thought it was double your number, my county is 54.2% white, 32.3% black, and 8.2% Hispanic.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I got mine from http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/michigan-population/ a page headed "Michigan Population 2018" which is (for me) the curated result right at the top of a google search for "demographics in Michigan"

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

What's really going to blow your mind is that 80% of ENTIRE AMERICA is white. Some states such as Vermont are 98% white.

[–]kjvlv 6 points7 points8 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I think is part of the NOW platform

[–][deleted] 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

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[–]Chaz042[S] 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yep.....

[–]EvidencePlz 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

but why do you wanna do that? what exactly happened?

[–]FlaccidArrow 10 points11 points12 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

You mean women account for 30% of suicides because of toxic masculinity? /s

[–]karmicillusion8 points 8 years ago [recovered] (1 child) | Copy Link

God, white guys are bogarting all the suicides too! Just classic.

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

It looks much worse than it actually is (not to downplay suicides for any group). Men already make up 80% of all suicides and white men make up 80% of all men in this country. When you put two and two together, the 70% isn't all that surprising considering the amount of white men in this country.

[–]speakingofsegues 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Are you telling me that 30% of suicides in Michigan are women?!?!

[–]C2074579 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I'm waiting for the day that mainstream feminism actually includes men's problems.

[–]Matt-ayo 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

White men make up about 39% of the total population there.

https://suburbanstats.org/population/how-many-people-live-in-michigan

[–]NaturalisticPhallacy 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Given that white people are the most common demographic (~70%) you'd think it would be merely 35%, all things being equal. Clearly they aren't equal.

[–]numquamsolus 5 points6 points7 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Men are more successful at committing suicide than women.

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

It doesn't work like that mathematically. Men make up 80% of all suicides, so you have to go off of that number first. Then you have to realize that white men make up 80% of all men in this country. White men then would make up 64% of all American suicides, which is still high, but not alarming considering that whites make up 80% of the population.

[–]XenoX101 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Suicide privilege.

[–]jogorilla 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Nononono, you got it all wrong! 30% of suicide victims are women!

[–]mrfixerupper 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

White privilege.

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

More like white majority. Whites make up 80% of the country, so they will make up the majority of the suicides. It also looks high because men suicide 4 times the rate women do, so they make up 80% of the suicides.

[–]mrfixerupper 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Can we use this same logic with blacks and jail population?

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp

Whites not surprisingly still make up the majority of those incarcerated, after all, whites are 80% of the population. The thing to look for is how many are jailed in proportion to the population. Blacks only make up 13% of the population, yet comprise 38% of those in jail. They are jailed at a disproportionately higher rate than whites. Why this is the case is due to several factors, which I'm not well versed to discuss and is probably off topic. The point is that most people in America and on reddit don't seem to understand just exactly how white America is and how that affects statistics.

[–]Benito_Mussolini 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

That's an odd coincidence since I just moved to MI yesterday and I happen to be a fucking white male that battles moderate depression with SI. Thank the God's for my support network because I wouldn't be here without them.

[–]sheepdog_best 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Whites are like 70% of the population

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

More like 77%.

[–]tektools 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Rock/singing legend Chris Cornell committed suicide in Detroit, Michigan. Seems the place is cursed for white men.

[–]daviddavidson29 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Wait a second. Suicide rates have always been higher for men than women, as men use more deadly mechanisms. Whites make up about 75 percent of the population. Are we sure this demographic-baiting headline is unexpected or unsurprising?

[+]Soccitoomee 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Why dont you take a walk and go to the gym or something?

[–]Chaz042[S] 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

I'm sorry?

[+]Soccitoomee 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Thats what im gonna do. Ive lost 20 kgs and its a public holiday over here

[–]throwawayyoucanhate 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Probably right after they annual football loss to THE Ohio State University.

[–]MaximsDecimsMeridius 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago* (3 children) | Copy Link

i feel like this actually points towards whites being less likely to commit suicide given that michigan is 80% white because if suicide was random, and it isnt, its distribution should match state demographics. doesnt this mean theres forces that make whites less likely to commit suicide? i think this is more of a gender issue than a racial one, but the article makes it seem like race plays a center role.

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

That's exactly it. The common person who reads this will think how bad white men have it, which is true to a degree, but the title is a bit misleading. Whites make up 80% of Michigan and America and American men make up 80% of all suicides. So race really isn't the big deal here, but rather the tendency of men to kill themselves 4 times more often than women do. It's a gender issue more than race. The title is emphasizing the wrong thing.

[–]MaximsDecimsMeridius 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

iirc this is because men tend to use firearms and women tend to use drugs, and women attempt suicide way more than men, but men are far more successful at it.

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

That means that men are the ones who need the most immediate support because if they set out to do it... they do it. Women also need help as well as the larger amount of attempts seems to come from a larger amount of depression in their group.

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago* (2 children) | Copy Link

Not to make the issue any lesser, but whites do make 80% of the population in Michigan (and even more in other states) and men already make up 80% of all suicides. So while white men making 70% of the suicides seems like a high number, they will always make up the most of most statistics when you look it up by number. If anything, if we are to isolate the amount of white male suicides, white men should make 77% of all male suicides, because they make 77% of the entire US population. So it's actually not as shocking as the headline would make you think. The better statistic to look at is the suicide rate for men by race.

It's sort of how whites make the majority of those incarcerated, yet more black men on average are in jail when you look at population size. This is because whites make up 77% of the US population, yet blacks only comprise up 13%.

[–]genkernels 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

[This is only slightly worse than normal.] men already make up 80% of all suicides

Isn't that the point?

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

Well the title of the article makes it seem like white men have a suicide epidemic compared to men of other races, yet it doesn't state that white men make up 77% of American men or in Michigan's case, 80% of the men there. If 80% of Michigan men are white, if suicide rates for all men there are equal, they should make up 80% of the suicides for men there. Yet we have replies here such as "That's insane!" or "That's horrible!".

I did some quasi-math and the suicide rate for white men in Michigan should be around 64% of all suicides (including women), so 70% is still higher than normal, but it's not astronomical as the title would seem to imply.

The point here is that the title is throwing off the real issue here which is not race, but gender. The shocking point is that men make up 80% of suicides, not that whites make up 80% of the population.

[–]mannyrmz123 -1 points0 points1 point 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Lol

[–]ExiaChamploo0 points 8 years ago [recovered] (2 children) | Copy Link

listen op, i really appreciate the need for suicide awareness but check this out. https://www.statista.com/statistics/588915/michigan-population-ethnicity-race/

I know men are over represented in suicides but Michigan is a predominantly white state.

I'd be more curious to see the disparity of suicides of men and women in this state.

Be careful using data and analysis. It should be used to make informed decisions and find issues that can have attached solutions. This seems more useful to incite emotion, which typically isn't a good thing. How can other races be as well represented as white when they are so underrepresented in the state?

[–]AmuseDeath 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

What will blow your mind is that America is a predominantly white country with 77% of the population being white. The only place that this isn't the case is Hawaii where whites are a minority. When you take that out, the rest of America is 80% white. In some states such as Vermont, whites actually make up 98% of the population. People seem to forget how white America really is and how few minorities there are in this country. Whites outnumber all the minorities put together.

So what this means is that whites will make up the most of any statistic. They will make up most of the homeowners, the taxpayers, the incarcerated, the homeless and in this case, suicide numbers. It's not a surprise, it's math.

[–]ExiaChamploo 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I mean I'm not surprised lol. OP is bringing race into it unnecessarily. Makes the analysis sound a bit emotionally/ racially driven

[+]Soccitoomee -23 points-22 points-21 points 8 years ago (23 children) | Copy Link

feminist here

its been long said that more men commit suicide than women

this is due to a number of facts

- women "try" to commit suicide more but dont succeed. men do it in a much more voilent manner, and succeed more

- men dont lean on their friends as much as women

- men dont talk about their feelings

[–]G4RRETT 18 points19 points20 points 8 years ago (8 children) | Copy Link

this is partially because its not socially acceptable for men to speak about their feelings and issues. They're supposed to "man up" and be the rock that women and children lean on, they're not supposed to have problems themselves, and if they do they're expected to handle it themselves. In fact, many women are absolutely repulsed by the thought of an emotionally needy guy. And so are other men for that matter.

And when they do speak out about their issues they're often met with hostility and not taken seriously. If I made a comment on the rFeminism sub starting with "mens right activist here" I would immediately be banned and silenced. This is part of the burden society places on men.

[+]Soccitoomee -17 points-16 points-15 points 8 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

mmm i think men should talk - much more - its you guys that have to start we cant do it for you

[–]G4RRETT 14 points15 points16 points 8 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

well thats what subs like this are for. Men are starting to talk to each other and try to bring issues to light. The very thought of that angers certain groups of people.

[+]Soccitoomee -16 points-15 points-14 points 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

i was thinking more about talking to your friends and girlfriends etc about feelings

[–]G4RRETT 18 points19 points20 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Well again, most women are repulsed by an emotionally needy man. Turned off by it. Most women want a man to be their rock. Men feel as though they can't show weakness. That's just how it is.

I agree that men should have other men they can open up to and not be judged about. It's not that easy though.

[+]Soccitoomee -6 points-5 points-4 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

there is a difference between emotionally needy and sharing your feelings i dont think men like needy women either i couldnt date a man that didnt know how to communicate

[–]G4RRETT 12 points13 points14 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Do men like needy women, no. Do men consistently put up with needy women? yes. Do women ever put up with needy men? very rarely.

"we want to relax. We want to be open and honest. We want to have a safe haven in which struggle has no place, where we gain strength and rest instead of having it pulled from us. We want to stop being on guard all the time, and have a chance to simply be with someone who can understand our basic humanity without begrudging it. To stop fighting, to stop playing the game, just for a while.

we want to, so badly.

If we do, we soon are no longer able to."

[–]tmone 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yeah. No. Everyone I talk about my problems or male issues I'm met with "incel" insults, mocked and ridiculed. I'm laughed at and told that I have privilege.

You're fuckn blind.

[–]RubixCubeDonut 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

i think

Debatable

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points14 points 8 years ago* (3 children) | Copy Link

you have no evidence that any of those things are true. you have no evidence that

  • women "try" to commit suicide more but dont succeed. men do it in a much more voilent manner, and succeed more

and it has a kind of obvious prior implausibility, People who try to kill themselves tend to do a little research, they would quickly encounter information on the average success rate of any given method. Also one does not become a 'victim of attempted suicide' necessarily by trying to kill themselves. One need only tick that box on a questionnaire or say as much to some doctor or social worker.

you have no evidence that

  • men dont lean on their friends as much as women

I mean, depending on what you mean by lean on

and you have no evidence that

  • men dont talk about their feelings

is at all relevant to the topic of suicide.

[+]Soccitoomee -4 points-3 points-2 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

ok dear

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points13 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

ok dear, so confident

like the christian 'bless your heart'

a nasty bit of malice wrapped up in a verbal fart.

[–]tmone 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Thanks for that convincing answer.

[–]PMmepicsofyourtits 7 points8 points9 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Typically a publicized suicide attempt is a cry for help/attention. Men kill themselves quietly and violently.

[–]MahouShoujoLumiPnzr 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

  • men dont talk about their feelings

"I feel that you're unfairly placing the blame of all of society's ills at me feet and not treating me like a human."

"give me more male tears incel lol"

[–]tmone 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Thanks for showing the world what a real feminist is. Your whole history is full of vindictive and angry shit about men.

Oh for gods sake - so selfish - men, men, men us poor underpriviledged white men

You constantly mock and ridicule men. You think we're going to come to YOU with our problems.

Fuck outa here.

[+]Soccitoomee -1 points0 points1 point 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

I didnt suggest you talk to me

[–]tmone 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

let me ask you a question. why, as a feminist, do you think its ok to say:

Oh for gods sake - so selfish - men, men, men us poor underpriviledged white men

but the minute i replace the word "men" with "women," i can almost be guaranteed to be called a misogynist?

[–]DeathlyVortex 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago* (2 children) | Copy Link

Do you know why men commit suicide more? Because society doesn’t allow men to talk, to share their feelings. Men are told since birth to toughen up. Men are taught that women want confident, macho men who don’t cry or get emotional. Guys are told to bottle up their feelings and if they show weakness they are scolded. This is one of the few places where you can openly discuss the double standards and hypocrisy of society.

Edit: u/headingtoshore also made fantastic points

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

horse shit bro. shit of the horse.

what good will talking do if say your wife out of the blue has you arrested for something that never happened, moves away with the kids, you get out of jail, you're divorced now and lost your job, but you owe 2000 bucks a month for child support, you are not allowed to see your kids, you love them, then you find out they are actually some other guys biological kids, so it turns out you have no kids, bu you still love those kids, but now they hate you.

well, come up with the 2000 and pay it, or go to jail, or kill yourself, that's what.

horror stories like this can be tossed off on many other mens issues, and talking about it, for the love of pete, will not fix a damned thing bro, not a damned thing. life is ruined at that point. it's over.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

blush all in a days work pal

But ya know, If you read me I'm not hugely convinced that all this talk of talk is actually on the mark regarding suicide among men as we are currently witnessing.

[–]elebrin 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

You aren't wrong.

How do we solve these things?

  1. Teach and allow men to create intimate friendships with other men. This means allowing men to participate in groups that are men only. Those organizations are how we can interact with each other and do positive things that make us feel good. Men are highly discouraged from joining organizations where this sort of thing has happened in the past - fraternities, male-only clubs, boy scouts, local sports teams, and so on that have been forced to either integrate or shut down. If you have a son, encourage him to spend time with other boys his age and allow them to exclude the girls. If you have a husband or boyfriend, encourage him to get involved in a men's group, club, or whatever. Allow him to meet with his male friends after work. If you are a man and see a guy who's being left out or doesn't seem to have a group to belong to, invite him along and bring him in. You may be richer for it and he probably will be too.
  2. Teach men how to work through their negative feelings as men. Most of what men want is to feel safe, wanted, and useful. Encouraging men to have multiple modes to build that feeling in themselves and create a sense of value and security might go a very long way. It isn't talking about feelings like how a woman might do it, but men aren't like women. Simple things where he can get satisfaction can go a long way towards that. Remind him of why he is needed. Remind him that people care about him, that he does have help with his issues if he needs it, and nothing is so bad that his life has to be over.
  3. As for the method effectiveness issue, I doubt there is much that can be done to combat that other than to start banning guns and rope. I am against banning things, personally, so I don't really know what the right solution is there.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

The troubles you are addressing here in your first and second points are valid troubles, but they do not really bear on male suicide.

Teach and allow men to create intimate friendships with other men.

Teach men how to work through their negative feelings as men.

Oh, cry me a river. Feelings are why women kill themselves perhaps, certainly they will be cited in sob stories about 'that one time, in band camp, when I tried to kill myself' but men, unlike women, have REAL problems.

It really seems like women just want men to talk about their pain so that the women can laugh at them and fill their male tears mugs.
There is no evidence that talking about your children having been ripped away,

talking about a life of skill and expertise being devalued and cast aside in favor of some 'diversity barbie',

talking about having the end of your penis chopped off a few days after birth,

talking about learning 'your children' are actually the children of some other man,

talking about saying hello to a woman and getting the response "I have a boyfriend'

or any of the other issues causing these suicides would save a single life.

We are told that women talk more, I mean, lord knows that's true, and yet they 'try to kill themselves more', but men are just better at it, like they are better at so many things.

well, good thing women are so gossipy and inept I suppose, at least according to feminists, as otherwise they would be dropping like flies.

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