• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    As I understand it, women attempt suicide at higher rates than men, but men select methods with higher rates of death.

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      8 hours ago

      The topic of suicide is always very grim. Even scarier is how many people get on the verge of it, driven by hopelessness and despair.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah agreed. If everyone considering suicide would actually follow through, it would be devastating.

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    7 hours ago

    People don’t really care about men unless they’re beyond the median bell curve threshold (rich/white/etc). As if that’s what defines a human experience.

    In truth, I hardly find these statistics surprising.

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      6 hours ago

      Culturally, men are often seen as more dispensable, as they are not the ones giving birth. They are also taught to be more “tough”, which leads to less visits to mental health professionals, and, subsequently, deterioration of mental health issues.

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        4 hours ago

        according to my biology teacher, this is not cultural but rather a biological fact prevalent in (most? all?) animals - not that this would help in any debate

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          3 hours ago

          What exactly? Dispensability of males? It is indeed common in the animal world, though not universal; besides, we don’t struggle to survive as a species, and culturally evolved to be humane.

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            imho the “humane” part is mostly propaganda to hide the insane atrocities of our time. there is way more (hu)man-made misery than in earlier times