Interesting (video, 38:24). Susie Bennett is a PhD student at the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory in the University of Glasgow (22 of the 28 members of the Laboratory are women). I’ve posted the following comments, which take up the remainder of this blog piece:

“Thanks for this fascinating interview which I’ll link to on our website.

Susie comes across as a very intelligent and compassionate woman, but there’s a whole area she doesn’t cover in this interview. To my mind, the key reason that far more men than women commit suicide in the UK – and globally – is not so much their responses to life’s challenges, but that they’re far more likely to face life challenges which lead to the wish to end life.

Two obvious examples:

– homelessness, over 90% of the street homeless are men

– denial of access to children after family breakdowns (over 90% of parents denied access are fathers).

Now, as with so many other suicide-inducing challenges, these are male disadvantages (and causes of suffering) created by female privilege – in the first case through preference for accommodation, in the second through women’s greater power to persuade family courts to deny child access to the other parent. I understand the male suicide rate increases threefold after fathers are exposed to family courts.

Surely the key to reducing the male suicide rate lies in ending (or at least reducing) the incidence of such devastating life challenges as denial of access to children? The empathy gap will always be with us, and a lack of funding for initiatives for men is but one of many consequences of it.

One final thought. Many men find that when life is at the most challenging for them – e.g. they lose their jobs, and are struggling to find another – their (female) partners head for the hills, one consequence of female hypergamy. And lower-status men probably won’t have a female partner in the first place, again because of female hypergamy.

Mike Buchanan

JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS”

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