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Are you suggesting we restrict divorce in order to reduce male suicide?
by reso 3y ago
Are you suggesting we restrict divorce in order to reduce male suicide?
- useless_foghorn 3y agoAll social pressures have a cost and an optimal balance. Men tend toward a less bonded mating strategy, and divorce law seems to seek to punish that behavior (which, again, can be offset by prenups). A symptom of a social pressure that is out of balance might be disproportionate male suicide rate.
- svnt 3y agoBetter protections for men from the social consequences that some women architect purely out of spite would go a long way. I’m often in awe that we can both propose equal rights and responsibilities and sympathetically treat forty-year-old adults as children in these situations, but only if they belong to one sex. The other sex gets disgust or at best pity.
- bitshiftfaced 3y agoI didn't get that impression. To me it's more about calling into question bringing up certain statistics when if you were to really make policy based on unbiased decision-making, then you'd have to ask uncomfortable questions just like the one you've asked.