BBC article on suicide increase. When a issue such as suicide affects men its a non gendered problem. NO mention of the up to 7x higher suicide rate of men. I will try to find the studies.

7hunderpants · 2014-06-12T17:04:43+00:00

Actually, I'm pretty sure that men commit suicide at a rate of about four times higher than women. That's a figure from the top of my head, but it's an area I've previously studied, so I'm fairly sure of its accuracy. Of course, it varies a bit from nation to nation, but that's what the figure is for where I live. Where I am, suicides have doubled in the past three years.

You are right in that the article was completely devoid of any gender information, despite the fact that suicide does affect more men, by a wide margin. This is, of course, typical for such things. Men's health always receives a considerable backseat position to women's health. For example, breast cancer and prostate cancer kill roughly the same numbers, but breast cancer receives about double the funding and has far more media attention.

The problem of male suicide is just so poorly researched and treated. Not only do people not really do much more than notice the numbers and say, "Oh, yeah, that's kinda high," and shrug, but treatment sucks. Treatment favours women and pharmaceutical companies more than it actually benefits the men suffering, because men don't benefit from the same kinds of talk therapy the way women do. And medication is a lousy bandaid, especially when you consider that many antidepressants are known to have the added side-effect of suicidal ideation. Men benefit from support from their spouses, time spent in active recreational pursuits, and time spent with other male friends. In other words, blowjobs and golf cures everything. ;)

WomenAreAlwaysRigh · 2014-06-12T19:44:51+00:00

Yeah. <When men are the victims, it's class and race. When women are the victims, it's all about gender.

MRSPArchiver · 2014-06-14T21:48:35+00:00

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Poperiarchy · 2014-06-12T12:52:00+00:00

You need to be careful when talking about suicide. The numbers you see about male suicides being so much higher are successful suicides.

Women generally attempt suicide at rates up to 4x that of men, depending on which set of numbers you run from-- they just fail at it. Men just succeed at what they attempt to do more often than women.

Suicide is most definitely a genderless issue, and women are affected by it in great numbers. They just suck at it.

Equality. That's why feminists demand more pay to do "the same job as men." They're operating at a handicap and have to work way harder than men to try to get the same results.

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