Wikipedia: Global Male Suicide
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2007-08-13 00:04
This is a global suicide chart provided by The World Health Organization. As expected, the numbers show an overwhelming gender disparity. This information, while morbid, should serve as a sobering reality regarding the least spoken of MRA topics. The numbers are disturbing.
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Now THIS is male privilege!
Anybody that pulls that "male privilege" crap on you, shove this up their nose!
oregon dad
I agree
I think this is a very telling link. Good to keep in the repertoire.
Telling in some ways, questionable in others
It is clearly a universal fact that males commit suicide at drastically higher rates then females.
While I can see Russia and former soviet block countries are highest on the list, some of the rankings do not seem correct.
While I admit I know very little about world wide suicide statistics and my own personal biases could affect my feelings, I am not sure how accurate the rankings are.
It would seem the best place to be if you do not want to be driven to suicide is in parts of the middle East or Africa. Or that Mexico ranks significantly lower on the list then the United States. I certainly understand the preamble warning not to take these rankings as indisputable fact.