Republican men seem massively troubled about their masculinity — and that’s literally causing death and suffering

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    54% of those deaths were suicides. 26,368.

    Mental health for men? Silence.

    There are people who advocate for “men’s rights” things, but they’re mostly conservatives, and they leave out the horrifying statistics about gun ownership among men because they’re also in the pocket of the gun lobby.

    It’s a taboo subject even amongst family members of those affected to talk about the role of firearms in suicide.

    The reality is that gun ownership can turn a bad, lonely night into a person’s last one by pure virtue of the fact that it’s so readily available, and so often deadly.