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

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164. I agree. Until men stop trying to dominate and subjugate women...

...and force them into these subordinate roles, nothing will change.

Feminism is trying to address these issues, and all we get is blow back or accusations that we hate men and are trying to emasculate them. No! We want to FREE men!! We want to free them from this burden that deep down, they don't want; they've just been socialized to pursue it. Perhaps the men need to start listening to the feminists and become feminists themselves.

Society places so much pressure on men and it's not fair. This is what happens when they cannot live up to these societal expectations. I am NOT blaming the men who are hurting themselves. I am blaming society. Look at how we worship sports and entertainment figures--those men who make tons of money!! Look at how women are now starting to outpace men in traditionally male-dominated professions.

As a black woman, I am well aware of the hyper-masculinity that exists in black America, and there's a lot of misogyny because many black women have been assuming male and female roles for many complicated reasons (far too complex to discuss here). And black women are exceling in many areas in life--inside and outside the domestic sphere, which has cause some resentment in the black community among *some* black men. However, we are seeing the damage done as well. Damage to black women who aren't allowed to fully express the full range of their feminine emotions and identity; damage to black men who aren't allowed to cry or to express any other type of emotion other than heightened anger and aggression. Damage to black relationships because *some* black men reject black women in favor of other races because those women are deemed more feminine, desirable, and submissive.
It's not a coincidence that suicides are high in the black community among black men, either. That statistic rarely is reported, though, because nobody cares.