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The women I've known who "attempted" suicide weren't really trying to kill themselves. It was either attention seeking behavior or an attempt to punish people
by tsotha 11y ago
The women I've known who "attempted" suicide weren't really trying to kill themselves. It was either attention seeking behavior or an attempt to punish people in their social circle. IMO it's more a question of intent than method.
- DanBC 11y agoThat's not what the research shows. Your comment is strongly stigmatising of people in psychiatric distress.
- tsotha 11y agoAnd yet the numbers back my interpretation.
- DanBC 11y agoNo they don't. Show which numbers you mean.
- tsotha 11y agoDid you read the title of this post?
- DanBC 11y agoHow does the title of this post support your unpleasant suggestion that women who attempt suicide are not serious in their attempt (your use of scare quotes is fucking disgusting, BTW) and were doing it to seek attention or to punish people - it is this attention seeking / punishing behaviour that I'm trying to get you to support with any evidence.
- tsotha 11y agoYou need to calm down. I made that statement based on personal experience and that I find laughable the idea that women are somehow too incompetent to kill themselves. What does that leave?
- DanBC 11y agoYou need to stop stigmatising large numbers of people based on your own limited experiences. Your comments are revolting and you should feel shame.
- tsotha 11y agoThe truth is sometimes an ugly thing, and I feel no shame in pointing it out.
- rmxt 11y agoWhen your "truth" is nothing more than an off-handed, ill-conceived misinterpretation of the implications of the research... you should probably reconsider your "truth". The only ugly truth in any of this is that opinions like yours prevent people from getting the help they need, and the fundamental respect they deserve.
- Chris2048 11y agoCalling stated opinions 'revolting' and 'you should feel shamed' are not proper discourse; The first sentence was fine, the second was not.
- dang 11y agoWe detached this flamewar from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10494651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10494651 and marked it off-topic.