Men's Rights Movement

[vulcanlogician]

Suicide, as I recall,  disproportionately affects men too.

Citation?
-Teresa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dif...in_suicide


He's right. Around a 4:1 ratio in the Western world. Four male suicides for every one female suicide is significant. But depending on the country, the situation is different. In China, more women commit suicide at a 8:10 ratio. 

The issue is murkier than this though. Women attempt suicide more often. Experts believe that many women choose methods which are not as successful as the one's men choose. Women commonly attempt a pharmaceutical overdose, cutting wrists etc. Men commonly use firearms (successful 90-95% of the time). Also, women are more likely to use a suicide attempt as a "cry for help." Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from major depression (the primary cause of suicide), but they are also more likely to seek treatment.

A lot of this I learned in a thanatology class I took. (Study of death.) We examined suicide at length.