Losing Men

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-09-21 22:52

Article here. Exccerpt:

'In 2010, more than 38,000 people killed themselves in the United States – and over 30,000 of them were men, Helen Smith, a forensic psychologist, points out in her book Men on Strike.

“How many of these men had decided to kill themselves because they could no longer see their children, had a broken relationship, or were involved in a bitter divorce?” she asks. “Ironically, even when you look at the suicide statistics, most concern seems to be about women who kill themselves. Apparently, our society cares so little about men that those who kill themselves are hardly news.”

It’s the problem of a culture that often treats men as if there is something inherently wrong with masculinity, with what makes them different from women — and looks to feminize them. Men who are less interested in marriage and responsibility are only being rational in that context, Smith argues. In the wake of the Navy Yard shootings on Monday, Smith talks about violent video games, and men in America, with National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez.'

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instead of trying to focus on the many reasons for the problem of so many men putting a gun in their mouth, they focus on taking the guns away from everybody, especially the rifles hardly ever used in murder/suicides.

odd how the cities like d.c. and Chicago, who have the strongest gun control laws anywhere, have murder rates that look like body counts from vietnam.

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Submitted by daveinga on Mon, 2013-09-23 09:17