Posted on 09/19/2013 7:44:20 AM PDT by 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.
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Yes, so true.
It’s a real problem... that No one seems to EVER discuss.. except, Lopez.
“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.”
Hopefully Dr. Smith takes a peek at the influence the Left has upon these numbers, and why. There lies the answer.
100% agree.
Feminazis are very powerful. They have been successful in their war on men. You can blame them for this.
The law and culture tend to protect women and to harm men. Men are starting to realize this, and women need to understand that men have few reproductive rights, have few legal rights in divorce, and are seen as the bad guy in marriages that go wrong.
If I had done what my X did for almost half a decade, my balls would be in a sling legally. Fortunately, its only one testicle and I can still support myself and my kids under the same roof.
The Left has gotten their way.
Women are winning!!
“There are many men in this country who are depressed or have issues that we as a society do not want to deal with. We are too busy trying to figure out what is wrong with girls and women, and men’s psychological issues go by the wayside.
LOPEZ: Who are “White Knights” and “Uncle Tims” and why are they a problem?
SMITH: White Knights are typically conservative men who are chivalrous and always trying to protect women and have no problem with biased laws that punish men while protecting women. Uncle Tims are generally liberal guys looking to get sex or political favors by being male sellouts to their own gender. They are the Bill Clinton types who crack down on their own gender, using biased laws such as sexual harassment while sleeping with women and using them.
The law and culture tend to protect women and to harm men. Men are starting to realize this, and women need to understand that men have few reproductive rights, have few legal rights in divorce, and are seen as the bad guy in marriages that go wrong.
SMITH: Yes, when we see men as the enemy, they are afraid to volunteer with children, to help others, or to sit by a kid on an airplane. We are isolating half the population — it is harmful to a free society.”
Who is going to start a crusade against crazy women?
Only 8,000 women? I bet if you look at the “attempted suicides” women would outnumber men by at least 2 to 1. They are for the drama. Men just blow their brains out and are done with it.
What makes you think that this isn't their objective?
Liberal women and their War on Men are devastating the family structure. The nation will fall as these ungodly termites destroy the foundation of the country.
A man would have to be a naive fool to sit next to an unrelated child on a plane.
That's pretty much true; it is a binary decision for those men taking their own lives.
I believe that’s a real fear, but do we know the actual number of men who are accused, overall and wrongly, in that situation each year or decade or whatever?
Where did all these sissy metrasexual (so-called) men come from?
“attempted suicides...”
“Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.” - Yoda
It’s a God phobia which isn’t the same thing at all as the classic fear (awe) of God.
When men stopped appropriating God’s courage it all started going into the toilet in a hurry. Women can do it too, but because the nature that God made gave women different fortes than men, it will express differently in women... (psst women, God tells you, too, not to be afraid... courage isn’t just a man thing) and what ever happened to the good ole viva la difference anyhow??? By trying to make everybody the same in the name of an ill thought through theoretical equality, our modern madness dumbs everybody down. That would be like an orchestra that had nothing but pianos in it. Rather dull.
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