UK male suicide rates are the highest they’ve been this century, and are getting worse. Despite the increased awareness, and the hard work of so many; clearly, intervention strategies for this epidemic, are not working. So let’s go back to ground zero. Let’s re-examine our most fundamental beliefs, to see if we’ve been building our advocacy, on a foundation of sand, rather than stone. Because, as you’ll know, to ask the SJW mob why so many more men die by su*cide than women, is often to invite a tour-de-force of stupidity, of bad faith, and downright hostility. It’s the familiar faces – “Men are more violent!” “Men are selfish” “Men don’t seek help!” “Women attempt more!” “Men are toxic!” And so we are given entirely wrong, half true, and incomplete answers, that hide far more than they reveal. We see suicidal men spoken over, and spoken for. “They use guns!”, you’ll often hear. Which I agree is an important point in places like America, but this fails to explain the same disparity in male su*cide in countries with virtually no gun deaths at all. In the UK, I can count the gun deaths we see each year on my hands, and yet, we are still beleaguered by the same epidemic of male su*cide. In fact – only 7% of su*cides worldwide use a firearm, so “they use guns!” Only explains, at best, 7% of the problem. And often, even this can be unhelpful – Because yes, American men use guns. But only because America men have more access to guns. You’ll hear that American men use guns to take their lives at twice the rate as women, but guess what; American men also own guns at twice the rate of women. So it’s not really about men “being more violent”, but rather, it’s about means… In places with high buildings, we see more deaths by heights. Or those by rivers, have more drownings. In countries with easy access to drugs, we see more poisoning… So any difference you might expect to see between genders, are dwarfed by the cultural gaps between nations, which we wholesale ignore. So, are we, as always, looking the wrong direction? And can we put down the outrageous memes and slogans, to have the conversation men are asking us to have?

2025-02-14