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You can thank the iPhone's new news feature for this post - reminding me that today was International Men's Day and pointing me towards the following article:
10 reasons we should be talking about male suicide on International Men's Day
I've no idea why the DT chose that particular story, but reading just the first point had me shocked.
Male suicide is a public health emergency. 13 men a day kill themselves in the UK, that’s nearly 5,000 men a year, accounting for 78pc of all suicides in the country
What a shocking statistic and how many of you reading this had any idea? I didn't.
It seems to me that society doesn't want to know. At best Doc will prescribe something dreary or hyper depending on your condition, perhaps recommend therapy and then, ten minutes later, you are on your own. These are not my experiences btw, but I do know a couple of close friends suffering and another who refuses to acknowledge his problem and instead drinks for England, Scotland, Ireland and (bloody hell) Wales every night of the week.
So if all this isn't bad enough, imagine my shock when the next recommended article was this:
Anger as University of York cancels International Men's Day event after hundreds of students and staff complained it would promote gender inequality
University said it would continue to focus on 'inequalities faced by women'
I appreciate, as best I can, the struggles that women face - but isn't the world going crazy? Can we just have one day a year to focus on us - or is it a man's world already and we/I should shut up and strike out against misogyny and think ourselves lucky as we are.
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10 reasons we should be talking about male suicide on International Men's Day
I've no idea why the DT chose that particular story, but reading just the first point had me shocked.
Male suicide is a public health emergency. 13 men a day kill themselves in the UK, that’s nearly 5,000 men a year, accounting for 78pc of all suicides in the country
What a shocking statistic and how many of you reading this had any idea? I didn't.
It seems to me that society doesn't want to know. At best Doc will prescribe something dreary or hyper depending on your condition, perhaps recommend therapy and then, ten minutes later, you are on your own. These are not my experiences btw, but I do know a couple of close friends suffering and another who refuses to acknowledge his problem and instead drinks for England, Scotland, Ireland and (bloody hell) Wales every night of the week.
So if all this isn't bad enough, imagine my shock when the next recommended article was this:
Anger as University of York cancels International Men's Day event after hundreds of students and staff complained it would promote gender inequality
University said it would continue to focus on 'inequalities faced by women'
I appreciate, as best I can, the struggles that women face - but isn't the world going crazy? Can we just have one day a year to focus on us - or is it a man's world already and we/I should shut up and strike out against misogyny and think ourselves lucky as we are.
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