A recent Global News article highlights the alarming statistic that three quarters of those who commit suicide in Canada are men, which is three times higher than the rate for women.
The article goes on to list the reasons for this epidemic but in a strange twist, it focuses on women and gender equality and even finds a way to suggest that gender equality in workplaces may be part of the solution to ending the increasing male suicide rate.
We can cheer stats showing women increasingly becoming bread winners and talk about breaking glass ceilings, but we can’t deny that a lot of those achievements are simply handed to females at the expense of men.
Women benefit from specialized government programs, scholarships and grants ,and even President Obama parroted the fake gender gap myth.
Imagine the outrage if these suicide stats were reversed?
Rather than believing that the solution to high male suicide rates lies in gender equality in the workplace, perhaps a better solution is recognizing men’s value.
Dunham can be excused since she was hatched and crawls out from under her rock to comment every now and then.
What are we without our men?
Either way, it’s a pretty dodgy number and ought to be taken with a huge grain of salt. Most wars do involved civilians and civilians are actually disproportionately female when most of the men are away at the front fighting the war.
We are Screwed if we do and Screwed if we don’t.