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It’s not fashionable. There’s a growing fixation on keeping up appearances of masculinity and it’s become a common identity. Education and mental health seem to
by abracadaniel 1y ago
It’s not fashionable. There’s a growing fixation on keeping up appearances of masculinity and it’s become a common identity. Education and mental health seem to be largely getting thrown out as non-masculine.
- DaSHacka 1y agoYes, I'm sure toxic masculinity is the only reason there's a growing dissatisfaction to the tradeoffs of enrolling in higher education. "Am I the one who's wrong?" "No, clearly it's the college-aged men that have to weigh the consequences of their choice who are wrong"
- UncleMeat 1y agoIt does not need to be the only reason for it to be a reason. Basically zero macro social trends have exactly one cause.
- mike_hearn 1y agoMental health is much worse amongst young women than young men and the gap is widening with time, so that part of your analysis is inverted. Example: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0384d43-4cef-421d-b522-9a0e42cb4ffd_1434x806.jpeg https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
- Moomoomoo309 1y agoSomething that complicates that statistic is the awful one the article alludes to: Broadly speaking, women attempt suicide, men commit suicide. When you're looking at nonfatal suicide, women tend to show up much higher because the men don't get admitted to the hospital, they end up in the morgue.
- lunar-whitey 1y agoMost measures that rely on self-reporting can underrepresent men; completed suicide is just the most drastic example. It’s difficult to think of a reliable measure that doesn’t have this problem.
- mike_hearn 1y agoThe same problem can be seen against a range of statistics e.g. having received a diagnosis of mental health problems from a doctor. Girl's mental health was already worse, and in the last 15 years or so was collapsing at much higher rates.
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- lunar-whitey 1y agoIncreasing numbers of women in programs traditionally associated with higher status is not gynocentrism. Many university departments are boys’ clubs.
- cedws 1y agoI didn’t say anything to do with numbers of either gender.