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

[Bonobo]

154. This paragraph?

"But it’s also true, in most Western countries, that more women attempt suicide than men. One reason a higher number of males actually die is their choice of method. While men tend towards hanging or guns, women more often reach for pills. Martin Seager, a clinical psychologist and consultant to the Samaritans, believes this fact demonstrates that men have greater suicidal intent. “The method reflects the psychology,” he says. Daniel Freeman, of the University of Oxford’s department of psychiatry, has pointed to a study of 4,415 patients who had been at hospital following an episode of self-harm; it found significantly higher suicidal intent in the men than the women. But the hypothesis remains largely uninvestigated. “I don’t think it’s been shown definitively at all,” he says. “But then it would be incredibly difficult to show.”

Is that the one? What is the part that is offensive to you? That this one man, Martin Seager suggests that maybe the fact that men succeed at suicide more than women suggests they maybe have higher suicidal intent? Would that really be a big stretch?

More women attempt suicide but even with less attempts, many more men commit suicide than women. Is it so radical to suggest that men therefore have higher suicidal intent?

Anyway, he then admits it is just a hypothesis.