Gender and suicide

theskepticalidealist · 2013-01-08T21:39:28+00:00

I'm just wondering why, whenever this topic comes up, people excuse it with 'well, more women attempt it so it's not a men's issue'. I would think that a lot of guys who attempted it and failed would likely go on to not talk about it openly or report it.

LallyMonkey · 2013-01-08T22:10:46+00:00

What's up with China?

Dylan_the_Villain · 2013-01-08T22:31:13+00:00

Source?

Revoran · 2013-01-08T23:22:02+00:00

Society stomps on men, denies them access to the support they need, and then wonders why there are all these dysfunctional guys walking around.

There is more male drug addicts, including alcoholics and tobacco addicts, there is more homeless men, there is more men in our jails and more men committing suicide. Men live shorter and less healthy lives than women.

I guess that doesn't fit with the "men have it easier in every area of life forever" myth though, so forget I said anything.

CosmicKeys · 2013-01-08T23:37:27+00:00

When men go through the family court system, their suicide rates also triple. Women's suicide stats do not change.

Why would someone with so much glorious male privilege want to commit suicide?

2013-01-09T07:40:47+00:00

OMG, man's pie chart part eats the woman's! Patriarchy Alert!

PerniciousOne · 2013-01-09T01:43:14+00:00

Suicide Statistics for the United States (2009-Con)

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf (Page 50)

Total Suicides - 36909 All Race Male Suicides - 29089 All Race Female Suicides - 7820

Male Suicides are 78% of the suicides almost 4 males are committing suicide per one female.

Suicide is a horrible thing to happen, and considering that men are socialized to rely on a spouse / girlfriend for all emotional support. When men lose access to their support (wife / girlfriend) they do not have a support network in place to help them when they are suffering from thoughts of self harm.

(edit fixed formatting)

r_rships_account · 2013-01-08T21:23:09+00:00

I am curious about one thing. Has the male suicide rate always been this high compared to the female suicide rate, in America?

penisAlota · 2013-01-09T04:52:03+00:00

I heard that women attempt suicide more but men complete it. This is because men use guns or hang themselves. Women often times use something that is preventive(ie pills, cutting wrists incorrectly, ect)

SpenceNation · 2013-01-09T09:43:25+00:00

The reason why is simple: men succeed at suicide more often. For every guy that hangs himself there is a girl who has the 10 Xanax pumped out of her stomach. For every shotgun a man takes to his head there's a girl who doesn't cut deep enough, panics and calls for help.

Of course these lines get smuged but the suicide gender disparity is just do the difference in how we commit suicide. Our violent, quicker methods give less chance of surviving.

Source: A law enforcement student. (One of the worst careers for suicide and substance abuse.

Title	Gender and suicide
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Date	January 8, 2013 8:22 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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