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I live in Australia
The homicide rate here is 0.86 deaths per 100k people per year
Of those, approx 66% are male.
The suicide rate is 12.3 deaths per 100k per year.
Of those, 75% are male.
The statistics are similar in most Western countries.
Pause for a second and think about the last time that you heard that mentioned either in casual conversation or in the news media.
It is not spoken about.
One third of family violence victims are male as well. The government’s policy is that we don’t exist.
Doesn’t that mean that 2/3rds of domestic violence victims are women…
I think so, yes, but that’s beyond the point. I don’t think anyone here is claiming or even implying that “Women don’t suffer from issues”, cause well, they do. The point they’re making is that it’s not talked about for men, or at the very least, not nearly as much as it should be.
Yes women do suffer, and that should be treated respectfully and have empathy for, we just think it should be the same for men as well, cause they do suffer from a ton of mental health issues as well.
I’m not disputing any of that, it was just a strange statistic to use for illustrating men’s mental health. There are better statistics in this post already where men are majority sufferers/victims, instead of a decisive minority.
Rest assured, the visibility of that statistic is very much in the minority. Feel free to look up the funding ratios for domestic violence against women and domestic violence against men. One third of the support won’t even come close.
It’s not a contest. Those minority of men are still people who need support.
There was an article in my country in the news recently about men needing help too. The comments were ghastly. That women need it more and it was because of men, etc. Only one person in those comments stood up and addressed that actually men do need help too and that part of the problem could be to help men to cope and offering support because they don’t have as many options as other groups.
Men feel things not feelings.
I feel the need to point out that this guy is basically just pointing out the specific message posted here on the image
(When I read the images I was thinking: "things? What kind of things? Sensations? Diarrhea? The need for respect? Motherfucker just say FEELINGS)
as a way for us to call attention to it and reflect on it instead of the misrepresentation of an slight or derogatory meaning.
Y’all need to calm the fuck down
You have mountains of work to do if you want societies to realize that men suffer mentally too…
I hope you realise that now you’re fighting the patriarchy. They want us to believe that men have their shit together and women are all runny eye-makeup and hysteria. It’s a big fight to pick.
