But they’re not exclusively receiving it. They’re still dealing it out in spades. They’re suffering under the same power structure they support and benefit from. Their disenfranchisement follows the disenfranchisement of women after WWII. At least here in America (I recognize that you are European). A campaign that diminishes women was waged against women to get them to go back home so men would have back the jobs the filled during wartime and to make money by making them feel bad about themselves. It worked. During the '50s and '60s suicide rates for women were "epidemic". Nobody batted an eye. Women are weak and hysterical, after all.

Middle aged women today are disproportionately medicated for depression. Something like 60% of women over 40 are on some kind of anti-depressant one study I read said (best I recall).

That’s huge.

Further, when women commit suicide, they tend to obsess about the mess left behind. This means they usually try things like pills, leading them to have more unsuccessful attempts than men because it’s too hard to dodge a bullet placed right against your head (unless you’re Keanu Reeves, of course). Men never think about the mess they leave and they love guns.

So, the question I have here is, is there really an epidemic of male suicides, or are they just catching up to the fallout of disenfranchisement other groups have been struggling with for DECADES, but being more successful at it because of choice of how to end it and that they’re not getting help (for a variety of factors)?

I suspect it’s the latter. After all, in the pyramid of hierarchy, there’s nobody left to disenfranchise. Sooner or later they were going to take their turn. They’re not being disenfranchised because of misandrists or feminism gone wonky about the patriarchy. They’re being disenfranchised because somebody is making money off them feeling like they’re not good enough and because robots need their jobs.

Welcome to the Beauty Myth 2.0 gentlemen. Women cannot save you here. You’re going to have to wrestle your own demons on this one, the same as us. Expect a lot of bruises along the way.

Long live the resistance.