On April fourth CAFE is hosting another lecture and discussion event. Their speakers this time are Dr. Katherine Young and Dr. Paul Nathanson. The topic is “From Misogyny & Misandry to Intersexual Dialogue”
I am positive it is going to be interesting and incredibly important event for the well being of men and boys.
The recent reactions against men’s issues groups at Southern Ontario University Lectures have been horrendous. A violent protest erupted at the Warren Farrell lecture, shutting down peaceful discourse on the betrayal of boys and young men by today’s society. An intelligent young man had come in search of answers to why his two friends had committed suicide, but he was treated with rabid, ignorant insensitivity by the feminist protesters, who told him something to the effect of “feminism has all the answers.”
I know some answers to this gentleman’s questions.
Full disclosure, one day in May back in the early 80’s my brother committed suicide while he was a patient at the local mental health facility. It happened three days before he was to be discharged.
With no place to go.
He was 22. Twenty-nine years later to the day that my brother committed suicide, I too was a patient at the same hospital for many of the same reasons. Misandry, discrimination on the basis of sex, a lack of compassion for men and boys. The corruption in the Canadian ‘just us’ women system did not happen to my brother, only to me.
My older brother, if he was alive, would have been 51 when I lost all hope.
In a 1995 Statistics Canada Health Report paper by Kathryn Wilkins who, works in the Information and Research as well as the Health Analysis Divisions at Statistics Canada was published. It is called “Causes of death: How the sexes differ” Suicide is listed 20 times in this report. The author ends with this;
Consequently, public health interventions to reduce male death rates will probably yield the most gains when targeted at young adult men.
In the wake of that intelligent and well-balanced recommendation, Statistics Canada reports the following numbers for the young man’s age group (20 to 24 years old) during the years 2000 to 2009.
They are;
| Cause of death |
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intentional self-harm (suicide) | 317 | 296 | 277 | 306 | 270 | 296 | 265 | 290 | 255 | 277 |
For men,
| Cause of death |
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intentional self-harm (suicide) | 257 | 242 | 223 | 248 | 218 | 231 | 219 | 228 | 204 | 204 |
For women,
| Cause of death |
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intentional self-harm (suicide) | 60 | 54 | 54 | 58 | 52 | 65 | 46 | 62 | 51 | 73 |
For the 2000-09 [1] years young men were gasping their last dying breath because there was no compassion for men and boys, making up an average rate of 80% of Canada’s male suicide problem.
79.8% to be exact, not that it matters since society is willfully blind, deaf and mute to this deadly issue affecting young men
A report from July of 2012 for Statistics Canada on the Canadian suicide problem was written by Tanya Navaneelan called, “Health at a Glance Suicide rates: An overview.” In her Summary she states, “Using vital statistics to explore different aspects of suicide in Canada has shown that males are far more likely to commit suicide than females.”
Young sir, if you are reading this, I would have you know that organizations like AVFM, NCFM , CAFE and others, are working to ensure that you are freely able to ask your questions in the future.
I also want you to know that AVFM intends to document any other criminal actions that you and others suffered at the hands of that anti male mob, whether they are wearing masks or not.
I will try to ask a question on your behalf, young sir. You and the family members of your friends are owed some answers. We all deserve to know why society does nothing about this deadly serious male health issue.
Why isn’t the Canadian Government and health system addressing those last gasps for help from young men and boys? Why are they ignoring the balanced advice we as tax payers paid for? Why aren’t governments and society willing to talk about that last deadly, quiet, lonely, gasps of men and boys calling to us from beyond the grave in the form of a number, a statistical gravestone, marking their loss all of hope?
On November 16, 2012 the world witnessed that young man’s opportunity to ask Dr Farrell about his two friends suicides get heinously, maliciously, forcefully, criminally, taken from him.
May he and his friends and family never experience this tragedy again.
[1] http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a47
