Like men are able to get away with never expressing of requesting help with their feelings because women are trained from a very young age to observe men, watch for signs of emotional need and environmental stressors and deal with them without being asked. It’s why women worry constantly about emasculating the men in their lives but men never worry about “efeminating” the women in their lives.
Men are “stoic” only because they don’t have to communicate in order to get their emotional needs met.
This is frustratingly wrong in explaining the situation. Men are not healthy and benefiting from society dictating that they must be stoic and unexpressive just as women are not healthy or benefiting, and this fact is clearly backed by men having a much higher suicide rate.
No one benefits by societies cruel and incorrect gender ideas, except Hollywood and beauty products.
If you want to be a vehicle for social change, you need to think much bigger than this.
And yet women attempt suicide at a much much higher rate (there are within the US three attempts by women for every one by a man). The only reason the male suicide rate is higher is because men tend to use more effective methods like guns and hanging, rather than poisoning or drug overdose.
The reason for this is women don’t want to leave an awful mess for whoever finds them (which often backfires because of vomiting and so on, but still) poisoning and drug overdose are not as immediately lethal so there’s a greater chance of the woman being found and helped before death occurs.
Men do not want to kill themselves more, they just manage to succeed more often.
Also men are more likely than women to attempt to suicide after losing a partner to death or a breakup, because they no longer have immediate access to someone to deal with their emotions for them
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 