The male suicides: Social perfectionism is killing men — and things are getting worse

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69. it seems from the reasons given

that the answer is feminism, that would lead to a world where it was easier to deal with job loss and not having that "must provide for the family" nonsense in your head, especially where women are sharing it at least now, and like the example I pointed out of single mothers, taking it on sometimes entirely.

Not living up to the old fashioned male role wouldn't be depressing in a world where the sexes were equal. That might involve also giving up objectifying women sexually and treating them like people. Maybe some want to make that trade off.

It's like the macho stuff men can't give up but disadvantages them in some way. Go to doctors when there is something wrong. Get counseling when needed rather than looking at it as weakness. Stop and ask for directions. Walk away from fights. Eliminate this type of requirement to maleness. Stop looking at so much as "weakness."

And stop looking at so much that is deemed "feminine" as "weak" or "inferior." Women have this advantage for being not tough enough to pick a good suicide method and to fail more at it? I would not see it that way. Is it a sign of female weakness that women are not as successful. But they were at least, at higher rates, depressed enough to try.