Quadrocopia: Masculinity at the Margins.
To continue our celebration of Men's Mental Health Month. Men are four times more likely than Women to commit suicide . Women threaten suicide far more frequently. But for every one woman that actually works up the courage to actually do what it takes to debase oneself with such a cowardly act, four men have already beat her to the punch. Some might say this is yet another example of the "inherent unfairness" of patriarchal structures. How dare they distribute these numbers so unfairly! It's like the lack of women in corporate boardrooms all over again. The way I see it, it seems men are just condemned to lead even when it comes to sin and damnation. What keeps coming up here, and I think it's worth reflecting on, is the recurrence of that ratio. 4 : 1. Four parts to every one. A classic Pareto distribution. And then; like symmetrical fold of a fractalated flower, may I offer you another statistic....
