More men commit suicide than women.

Is this true?

Is this true?

Yes it's a fact.

It's this whole stiff upper lip mentality that British men have been taught to embrace.

Which I always thought was ridiculous.

I feel like guys have a harder time talking about mental health, so I guess they do.

Is this true?

Its true

I would say its to easily dismissed as being because men are not able to show enough emotion though..

Its worth noting that in most other regions the distance between men and women is significantly less than in europe and america.

In asia for example the ratio is only 1.5 men to 1 woman. rather then 4-1 in Europe. They have a similar suicide rate, and have societies that also do not embrace men being emotional.. so why do they not have the same problem as us?

I do think the lack of emotional intelligence plays a part - certainly in ones ability to seek help when it is needed. But I think this compounds on top of other societal issues to explain why in Europe we have such a difference between men and woman, but not in other parts of the world.

A large part of it for me comes down to the role of men in society. I do think we are in a transition for men currently where the roles are being redefined hugely. In the space of a single century what it means at its core to be a 'man' has changed beyond recognition. This is not necessarily a bad thing in the long-run, and may prove to be a good change, but for now, during the transition, I do feel like its leaving many men lost for directions, and not knowing their place in this world.

I think this feeling of being lost is triggering problems among men, that its not in women, and then their inability to seek help is causing an awful situation which they end up trapped in.

From my own experiance of men in 2 parts of the world:

This is an interesting point that I’ve heard mentioned before. As a woman, I think that modern wave feminism has reached a point where it wants to achieve certain goals without giving some thought for who is impacted along the way. There is a common rhetoric that ‘men are trash’ or not needed and are pretty useless in the grand scheme of things and ‘girl power’ and all that. I know it’s a generalisation and this would not affect every man, but that kind of rhetoric has the potential to make some men feel misplaced where they lose the ability to see where they fit in modern society. Some men react to this in one of two ways. Either they retreat into the confines of the alt-right internet where women are hated or they become lost and start to feel like they have no use which can trigger feelings of depression.

I don’t know what the solution is, however I think it’s an important point to raise. There are even some extreme feminists who have brought up the theory that in the future, reproduction would be scientifically possible without men (don’t know how scientifically sound that is) therefore they will become extinct in time, but then what kind of message does that send?

I feel like that someone time when all you see on television is feminist adverts I kinda feel small in the world.

Feminism is still very much needed, because we are still living in a somewhat sexist society (mainly in 3rd world countries). But sometimes extreme feminists can take it too far in the other direction.

Yeah I support it as far as equality but when it gets to the 'men are trash' crap its gone to far and basically its the same as it was before just men and women have swapped places.