You were implying that women were the more privileged ones. I don’t think that’s true. At the same time, you’re sort of correct here. Most men are not good at that anymore. But we are still better predisposed to dealing with conflict and tend to be more aggressive. This could even be related to the suicide issue — men, for whatever reason, could simply be better (on average) at wielding lethal force than women. And a lot of our social configuration was built around men historically being able to kill and do physical labor.
I also think part of what’s driving men to suicide could be related to our current role in society. This would be sort of the original meaning of “toxic masculinity” although I think politics has kind of ruined the term. There is somewhat of a historical example for this: a good number of men who couldn’t provide for their families anymore after The Great Depression killed themselves.
And as far as Bourdain himself goes...yes, he had economic, social, and political power, and a pretty good amount of it. He had basically everything you could want in life. That didn’t stop him from killing himself. You can’t really make the argument “men kill themselves more than therefore they have less power than women”.
> You were implying that women were the more privileged ones
I absolutely was not. I was implying that men are not the more privileged ones. Big difference. Surprised I have to explain logic on HN. But this topic really brings out the worst in people, it seems.
I also think part of what’s driving men to suicide could be related to our current role in society. This would be sort of the original meaning of “toxic masculinity” although I think politics has kind of ruined the term. There is somewhat of a historical example for this: a good number of men who couldn’t provide for their families anymore after The Great Depression killed themselves.
And as far as Bourdain himself goes...yes, he had economic, social, and political power, and a pretty good amount of it. He had basically everything you could want in life. That didn’t stop him from killing himself. You can’t really make the argument “men kill themselves more than therefore they have less power than women”.