Suicide is the greatest risk to a man’s life, and #maleloneliness arguably its most important associated risk factor.

But did you know – it’s women that pay the biggest burden of such an tragedy?

That’s right: ‘women are bearing the brunt of the male loneliness epidemic’, says local social justice warrior, online know-it-all, and expert-on-everything.

It’s the latest pseudoscience spat out under the newly fangled ham-fisted neologism of ‘mankeeping’.

The theory of ‘mankeeping’; is that loneliness, that ravages men’s lives, primarily impacts women, and not men.

It rings with the same absurd narcissism as Hillary Clinton who (twice) claimed that “women pay the primary burden of war…”

…Errr what?

Well, “because it’s their husbands, brothers and sons that are being killed.”

Such points of view fill me with despair.

Sadly, I have become acclimated to the idea that nothing will be done by politicians, or our noble gender equality advocates, to stem the unfathomable loss inflicted upon society by #malesuicide.

Nothing done to slay the spectre that hangs over men and bereaved families, stealing the lives of 700,000 men around the world, each year, and quietly immiserating so many more beyond that.

This deafening policy silence is a familiar bedfellow of mine.

But, I have now learnt there is something even worse than nothing, and that something, is this: “mankeeping”.

So, what is to be said about this nonsense, and why must those who use such a term, insist upon disappointing and betraying men and boys upon every opportunity, and at every possible turn?

Can we do better than this?

What do you think…

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My podcast with male suicide research Dr Susie Bennett is live, and in full on YouTube here… https://tinyurl.com/bdhwkf3x

2025-03-05