Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report...
by _3u10 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:05PM
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It’s easy to fix, find a country that Canada chastises and move there.
Pull up freedom house and pick any country rated 15 to 60 and see if you like it. Within 3 or 4 you will think, this place is awesome.
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report...
by Jtarii on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:12PM
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Literally nothing stopping men from being confident, strong providers if they want to be. Most do not because that is hard and videogames and porn is easy.
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report...
by azan_ on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:25PM
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That’s a very good example of how problems of men vs women are approached. Women typically get support (which is great! We should continue that) and men are typically blamed for being weak. It’s same pattern for many things, like mental health (like here), general health („it’s not our fault that men don’t take care of themselves”) to men being less educated than women.
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report...
by Jtarii on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:15PM
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There would first need to be a fundamental change in the way boys are socialised, shifting them more towards how girls are socialised. Which I don't see happening any time soon. You can't help people that don't want to be helped and a significant portion of men's brains are in a permanent state of rejecting all help offered to them.
"Traditional Masculinity" is just in general maladaptive in the current age.
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report...
by rpdillon on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:05PM
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I got down-boated earlier today for saying that there's nobody out there that would argue that men and women are exactly the same, except for a little bit of environmental nudging.
That appears to be exactly what you're arguing here: All we need to do is socialize boys more like we socialize girls, and then the men they become will be happier in our society. Is that your position?
If so, can you say a little bit more about what you mean or what you envision that socialization would look like for boys?
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report...
by jodrellblank on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:21PM
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"Literally nothing" stopping the perfectly spherical massless man in a social, environmental, cultural and economic vacuum from self-actualising into an ubermensch. Go gett'm, Tyger - The Stars, Your Destination!
Good luck with that.