• The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website
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    2 years ago

    They talk about a few causes, but this is the gist of it for anyone who doesn’t want to click:

    Researchers cited the pandemic as the biggest factor in the widening gender gap; it took a heavier toll on men. Unintentional injuries and poisonings (mostly drug overdoses), accidents and suicide were other contributors.

  • _number8_@lemmy.world
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    i wonder if this is correlated with the loneliness increase / the loneliness gap. if you’re a guy, lonely, prone to depression, in a crumbling post-capitalist society that’s getting more malignant by the day…how much will to live can you have

    • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      I want to kill myself because I hate myself, not because of capitalism. This kind of doomer shit doesn’t fucking help anyone. The absolute hopeless outlook of people on social media is pathological at this point.

      You’re all loved. You’re valid. We’re not gonna let anyone murder you en masse. Things will get better. It might be slower than we’d like at times, but nobody has been able to stop progress yet.

  • caron@lemmy.zip
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    2 years ago

    Yes, but what about those women who have to lose their husbands and sons? They are the real victims.

  • moistclump@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’m a bit concerned about using the “gender gap” term. As in, I wonder if it’s going to get adopted by misogynists to pit women’s suffering (gender pay gap) against men’s suffering (gender lifespan gap).