Losing Men

www.nationalreview.com ^ | Sep 19, 2013 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

[KeyLargo]

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE

September 19, 2013 4:00 AM Losing Men

That’s where the war is.

In 2010, more than 38,000 people killed themselves in the United States – and over 30,000 of them were men, Helen Smith, a forensic psychologist, points out in her book Men on Strike.

“How many of these men had decided to kill themselves because they could no longer see their children, had a broken relationship, or were involved in a bitter divorce?” she asks. “Ironically, even when you look at the suicide statistics, most concern seems to be about women who kill themselves. Apparently, our society cares so little about men that those who kill themselves are hardly news.”

It’s the problem of a culture that often treats men as if there is something inherently wrong with masculinity, with what makes them different from women — and looks to feminize them. Men who are less interested in marriage and responsibility are only being rational in that context, Smith argues. In the wake of the Navy Yard shootings on Monday, Smith talks about violent video games, and men in America, with National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez.

[pluvmantelo]

I think they’re casualties in the War on Women. /sarc

[digger48]

I guess I was just saying that the Left has long had a War on White Males.

The Left is happy about these numbers.

Perhaps that’s what you were inferring.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

“How many of these men had decided to kill themselves because they could no longer see their children, had a broken relationship, or were involved in a bitter divorce?” she asks.

Does anybody see the real problem here? When women are the victims of discrimination en masse, they stand up en masse and fight it. When men are the victims, they just take it and take it and take it until they can't take it anymore.

I know men here will blast me because of the "lack of sympathy" I have for men who have committed suicide, but where have you been while all of this was happening, and why have you allowed it to get to this point?