USA Today: U.S. girls' suicide rates jump, little notice of boys'

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2007-09-06 18:16

Article here.

No mention that boys are still four times more likely to take their own lives. Men: the disposable sex. Looks like boys also fall into that category. Excerpt:

"The suicide rate among preteen and teenage girls rose to its highest level in 15 years, and hanging surpassed guns as the preferred method, federal health officials reported Thursday.

The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests a surprising reversal in recent trends.

The biggest jump — about 76% — was in the suicide rate for girls ages 10-14 from 2003 to 2004. There were 94 suicides in that age group in 2004, compared to 56 in 2003. That's a rate of fewer than one per 100,000 population."

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Interesting. Young females entering puberty are the highest suicide risk among females. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that that particular group of females is also on the highest pedestal of them all.

Young pubescent females are by far the most feared group of females on the planet. Men are scared to death of them because despite the fact that they are reaching sexual maturity they are the most forbidden fruit of all. Even boys their own age face a deadly legal mine field when they interact with them.

If there is any group of females I feel sympathy for it is this group. They are so 'protected' by the state they are not allowed to actually be sexually mature children and explore their developing bodies and urges because all the males are scared to death of them with good reason as the punishment for upsetting one is more severe for murder.

I can see how it would be a miserable existence for them. They can act out, no one will arrest them or place boundaries upon them or give them guidance for the same fear that's keeping all the boys from asking them out. They are truly a group of females trapped in an impenetrable cage thanks to their legal status of living gods. They have supreme power, but yet like all females they just want to follow the lead. A conundrum to be sure.

But they can thank feminists for their current position, it was they who said girls lose their voice at twelve through massive oppression of the patriarchy leading to the erection of the tallest ivory tower ever imagined to place young pubescent girls upon. It was the feminists who gave them their living god untouchable by punishment of death status.

They just want to be human and explore who they are, they don't want every boy they kiss placed on the sex offender registry.

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Submitted by Paragon on Fri, 2007-09-07 20:30

Until adolescense, the boy's rate is slightly lower. Then, as adolescent boys begin experiencing the pressure of the male role, their rate skyrockets*. Of course that is the fault of the "patriarchy" imposing that role..women, including boys' mothers, are just innocent bystanders.

If there's anything good about boys or men, it is due to the involvement and influence of women. All of the bad things however, men must fix for themselves..women are just bystanders and never contribute to the problem (they're all like Katherine Harris: "Who, me??")

*source: W. Farrell, "Myth of Male Power", pp 164-169 (he quotes studies, which sources are then given in his endnotes)

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sun, 2007-09-09 08:44