From 1999 to 2014, the overall suicide rate rose by 24 percent, while the suicide rate for middle-aged women jumped by 63 percent. In particular, white middle-aged women had an increase of 80 percent. U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High
I wish more data had been provided, such as these women's median ratio of cats to children, but maybe the researchers tried that and found that the large number of divide-by-zero errors crashed their computers.
It seems to me that a normal state of affairs is for men to have a higher suicide rate than women. It is men's role to take on the challenging jobs in society, such as being the ones to approach women, to launch risky business endeavors that could lead to either bankruptcy or being on the Fortune 500 list, etc. while women need only follow a formula (growing their hair long, wearing high heels, etc.) for making themselves look pretty, and marry a successful men who approaches them. They can (and should) do this in their teens or early 20s, after spending their growing-up years learning how to cook, clean, and take care of kids; it doesn't take them years of determined struggle at solving difficult problems to finally reach their prime, as it so often does for men.
In a polygynous system, even most homely women (as long as they adopt a feminine appearance and attitude and have enough self-control to avoid destroying their bodies through overeating, etc.) will be able to find a reasonably successful guy who is willing to keep them around, if not as a first wife, at least as a second or third wife. They can strive to compensate for being plain by making extra efforts to please their guy in the kitchen and the bedroom. Unsuccessful men, on the other hand, will be left without any chick who wants them (for a long-term relationship, anyway), and will have more of a reason to put the barrel in their mouths.
The fact that successful men get to rule women is the privilege that comes with being among those who overcame the odds. The pleasures of owning women (as opposed to just sleeping with various sluts, most of whom one probably doesn't actually like personally) also serve as part of the incentive to put in the work, and take the risks, required to attain both (1) power and (2) the accomplishments that produce confidence, both of which women find attractive. For those men who fail at life, on the other hand, suicide provides an opportunity to at least go out in a blaze of glory, as Cato's Letter No. 56 points out:
I think many guys like Elliot Rodger, who couldn't stand their miserable lives anymore, have died attempting, in a misguided way, to at least make their deaths count for something. Psychiatrists write it off as mental illness, without analyzing the larger societal problems that are pushing men to that point. Meanwhile, women, having decided to pursue the same strategy men use to make themselves attractive to mates (i.e. pursuing a career) are likely finding that when it fails to bring them results that produce happiness, they too feel the urge to off themselves.
I wish more data had been provided, such as these women's median ratio of cats to children, but maybe the researchers tried that and found that the large number of divide-by-zero errors crashed their computers.
It seems to me that a normal state of affairs is for men to have a higher suicide rate than women. It is men's role to take on the challenging jobs in society, such as being the ones to approach women, to launch risky business endeavors that could lead to either bankruptcy or being on the Fortune 500 list, etc. while women need only follow a formula (growing their hair long, wearing high heels, etc.) for making themselves look pretty, and marry a successful men who approaches them. They can (and should) do this in their teens or early 20s, after spending their growing-up years learning how to cook, clean, and take care of kids; it doesn't take them years of determined struggle at solving difficult problems to finally reach their prime, as it so often does for men.
In a polygynous system, even most homely women (as long as they adopt a feminine appearance and attitude and have enough self-control to avoid destroying their bodies through overeating, etc.) will be able to find a reasonably successful guy who is willing to keep them around, if not as a first wife, at least as a second or third wife. They can strive to compensate for being plain by making extra efforts to please their guy in the kitchen and the bedroom. Unsuccessful men, on the other hand, will be left without any chick who wants them (for a long-term relationship, anyway), and will have more of a reason to put the barrel in their mouths.
The fact that successful men get to rule women is the privilege that comes with being among those who overcame the odds. The pleasures of owning women (as opposed to just sleeping with various sluts, most of whom one probably doesn't actually like personally) also serve as part of the incentive to put in the work, and take the risks, required to attain both (1) power and (2) the accomplishments that produce confidence, both of which women find attractive. For those men who fail at life, on the other hand, suicide provides an opportunity to at least go out in a blaze of glory, as Cato's Letter No. 56 points out:
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Men in extreme pain and agonies do often refuse physick, and the means of preserving their lives, days, weeks, and months longer. Men in lingering and desperate distempers go, uncalled, to mount a breach in a siege, or into the midst of the battle, to meet certain death. Great commanders have done the same, when the day went against them, rather than survive being beaten. Commanders of ships have blown up themselves and their ships, rather than be the prey of the conqueror. Towns besieged, when they could defend themselves no longer, have first burnt their town, then precipitated themselves desperately amongst their enemies, to procure an honourable death and revenge. Even common malefactors often choose to die, rather than discover their accomplices; and always get credit by doing so.
I think many guys like Elliot Rodger, who couldn't stand their miserable lives anymore, have died attempting, in a misguided way, to at least make their deaths count for something. Psychiatrists write it off as mental illness, without analyzing the larger societal problems that are pushing men to that point. Meanwhile, women, having decided to pursue the same strategy men use to make themselves attractive to mates (i.e. pursuing a career) are likely finding that when it fails to bring them results that produce happiness, they too feel the urge to off themselves.