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@mekkaokereke talks about suicide rates and manliness: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113510259901141131 – good stuff!
I just looked at the suicide rate by gender here in Switzerland. I knew it was bad, of course. Men here are often lonely, the emotional labour of maintaining relationships often falls on the shoulders of women so when men are alone, they don't manage to build the kind of network required to stay well. And thus, where as the suicide rates are going down, men are still doing very badly.
And this is without assisted suicides.
More specifically, the suicide rates go up, dramatically. This graph, again, is without assisted suicides (which are legal in Switzerland). Making friends and maintaining relationships requires emotional labour, trust, openness, vulnerability, and it can be hard. I know it's hard for me and unfortunately I see myself in these statistics. We must learn to do better.
Patriarchy is not helping.
Source: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/gesundheit/gesundheitszustand/sterblichkeit-todesursachen/spezifische.html
More specifically, the suicide rates go up, dramatically. This graph, again, is without assisted suicides (which are legal in Switzerland). Making friends and maintaining relationships requires emotional labour, trust, openness, vulnerability, and it can be hard. I know it's hard for me and unfortunately I see myself in these statistics. We must learn to do better.