Great post @beeber and ideal for International Women's day, the world has come a long way in most Western countries at least. The situation in other countries is atrocious and it is hard to believe in this day and age.
There is a secondary issue here though around the way the world portrays men in a negative light these days and I understand it is not easy to be a woman or a girl in this world, but it is no picnic being a man or a boy either. Indeed it is more and more difficult for kids (both male and female and other) to navigate the new world with all of its nuance and contradiction.
We need to be careful not to push blame onto the male population, especially young boys. Men and women are fundamentally different and often aspire to different things and are better at different things purely from a Physicality perspective and emotional perspective, we are just wired differently. Of course there are exceptions and I know men who have feminine characteristics and women who have male characteristics, but in my experience, that is the minority.
Young suicide is a tragic subject, and heart breaking for any family, and I have seen it first hand in Ireland losing 3 friends in their late teens (all male) and know 4 others from my small city (all male)
The graph below looks at a few countries suicide rates by gender, light grey is women, Dark grey is men. For every country there are significantly more men dying by their own hand? Why is that?
We need to be very mindful of the language we use around this subject and the message we convey to our sons, nephews etc. Of course we need to improve things for women in lots of countries, but I think in Europe, things are pretty equal now, unless I am missing something? So buzzwords like "Toxic Male Masculinity" is unhelpful in my opinion. As I say the language used is very important. If you want to change someone's behaviour, continually calling it/them toxic is not helpful.
Source - https://www.statista.com/statistics/236567/number-of-suicides-in-selected-countries-by-gender/
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