1stly,
I do agree feminism has taken a different direction but just like most of the laws were/ are male friendly...the feminists show that other laws need to be added coz the "current" ones arent covering everyone (female are human too). However, what feminists do want is equal treatment ....they would like to be taken seriously or at least for the sake that they are still human beings! There is no doubt that they cant be equal in EVERY aspect but in terms of respect they shouldnt need to demand it!
Just because there are some feminist groups that demand rights (respect) it doesnt mean that the old laws are overlooked or rewritten....they still are available to whoever wants to search and use them. By adding laws old ones dont get overwritten!
Lastly, about the stats..
You do know that the groups where you got your stats from such as "
http://www.avoiceformen.com/
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http://thedisabilityguys.com/ ( where your stats came from) is also not about gender equality and ONLY cries for men? So how can you use them as a statistic "proof" when you are claiming feminism doing the same thing is fraud?
Yet the article does exactly that by leaving the stats hanging like that!
And then lets look at the stats present:
- counted from Gulf war when women werent popular at such posts to get killed in the first place! The first 2-3 decades in the count already spiked the stats enough to show it skewed and not a good representation of a case!
Do you know the % of men to women in American combat? Lets say there are 20 ducks and 2 sparrows flying when xyz is shooting, the chance that a duck gets shot would be higher - common sense nothing to be surprised about! REALLY!
So lets take a look at the stats:
According to the website In 2008, 94% of workplace suicides were committed by men. In the year 2008, what was thre ratio of men to women working? If the women were/are not at employed at the same rate then how can they do suicide at the same rate? Not sure how that was to help your case?
And the explanation on the same website states that :
This one I clearly object to as well....There is no equality in this obscure law and I had posted and article here regarding it and was ridiculed but yes I agree this law is very skewed!
In 2011, middle-aged adults accounted for the largest proportion of suicides (56%), and from 1999-2010, the suicide rate among this group increased by nearly 30%.5
As for women most of the time they prob end up in honor killings (Asian families and some wild villagers) or angry ex (not unheard off - as some psychologists say that itself is done for some mental honor that doesnt get the title honor killing)
It would be useful to have a look at what is causing it- almost all leads to mental instability...not sure if women scare themselves to seek help or the ego of men dont allow them to seek help
Risk factors for suicide include:
• Previous suicide attempt(s) • History of depression or other mental illness • Alcohol or drug abuse • Family history of suicide or violence • Physical illness • Feeling alone
Again I am not sure how one's mental health can be brought into the equation....In the west there is a concept of personal space so unless you talk about your depression people arent going to hand you free help!
Overall, suicide rates varied by the level of educational attainment. Persons with the highest educational attainment had the lowest rates,
those with the lowest educational attainment had intermediate rates, and those who had completed only the equivalent of high school (or 12 years of education) had the highest rates.
From the abstract of the study itself you can stop wallowing in self pity
we
analyzed Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports data on homicides that occurred in the United States between
1976 and 1987. Only cases that involved victims aged 15 years or older were included. Persons killed during law enforcement activity and cases in which the victim's gender was not recorded were excluded. A total of 215,273 homicides were studied, 77% of which involved male victims and 23% female victims.
Although the overall risk of homicide for women was substantially lower than that of men (rate ratio [RR] = 0.27), their risk of being killed by a spouse or intimate acquaintance was higher (RR = 1.23).
What is data from 1987 trying to proof? There was not much feminism then....
Very misleading indeed...This is what the link suggests which was somehow overlooked by OP :
In 2010, males experienced violent victimizations by strangers at nearly twice the rate of females (figure 2). The rate of violence
against males by strangers was 9.5 victimizations per 1,000 males in 2010 compared to
4.7 victimizations per 1,000 females.
In 1993, the rate for males (56.9 violent victimizations per 1,000 males age 12 or older) was nearly
three times the rate for females (19.6 per 1,000 females).
From 1993 to 2010, males experienced a larger decline (83%) than females (76%) in the rate of violence committed by strangers.
Study clearly states this:
Prof. Starr emphasized that it is
not possible to "prove" gender discrimination with data like hers, because it is
always possible that two seemingly similar cases could differ in ways not captured by the data. Given the size of the apparent gender gap and the richness of the dataset (which allowed many alternative explanations to be explored), however, Starr believes that there is "pretty good reason to suspect that disparate treatment may be one of the causes of this gap."
So bringing such a study in is actually going raise more questions then acceptance of the theory being presented here!
Ok this is also sort of explained in the article itself:
One high school teacher suggested one possible reason for the gender disparity in paddling, noting that at her school it was common practice to “stay away from hitting the girls. I guess they’re more fragile, and a lot of them could be pregnant and we wouldn’t know it.”
-Physiologically women are different from men.
Interesting enough the article states:
The US Interagency Council on Homelessness estimates that of the chronically homeless 75% are male.
One third of those are veterans. In case you are wondering
97% of the homeless vets are male.
Well, veterans - esp more than 3-4 decades ago- not many female were in that field so I am sorry if women who didnt get a chance to work in the army didnt end up homeless or mentally ill and thrown out of their homes....
Seriously, this comparison is really desperate issue...Have you checked the % of desperation ratio...I am almost certain it is higher in men than women!
