Rate of suicide in the U.S. peaks among older men, a hard demographic to reach - eviltoast
  • Billiam@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    For those who don’t know, this is the other end of the toxic masculinity spectrum - the cultural idea that there is a certain way men are supposed to act, and we’re perceived as weak or effeminate if we don’t. We don’t allow (or aren’t allowed to) ourselves to express our emotions in a healthy way, so we bottle them up until the stress either kills us, or we kill ourselves.