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“Yes.”

did you guys know that only 4% of men suffer from PTSD while for women it’s 10%? and yet PTSD is seen as a male disorder. because veterans’ trauma is taken seriously while female rape victims’ aren’t.

uppityamy

Because male ptsd symptoms tend to be more physically severe and violent, mostly leading to self harm. Not because people don’t care about victim.

I’m just saying a man who thinks he’s back in nom pointing a gun in his mouth is going to need more immediate attention than a woman having panic attack.

Not to say they both don’t need attention, but one is a little more urgent.

Also there’s a lot of cultural significance to the term “she’ll shock” that we don’t really talk about anymore that you might want to consider.

Mens mental health tends to be more ignored than womens so I think we can let them have this one.

Regardless. Suffering isn’t a competition.

sapphicgem

none of what you said is true.

women are more than twice as likely to engage in self harm than men. men’s self-harm is shown to serve a more social purpose — like getting attention.

Self-injurious behavior (SIB) is 1.5–3 times more likely in women than in men. However, there is minimal research on SIB in male populations

women are also much more likely to attempt suicide, even though males succeed at higher rates. this is mainly due to the prevalence of gun violence among males, and it should be noted that male suicides include suicide-homicides (such as a mass shooter killing himself before he is caught), or criminals ending their lives before they end up in prison.

Several risk factors for suicide attempts appear to have significantly different magnitude of association among women and men; however, thes

you claiming that women’s PTSD is “having a panic attack” is fucking absurd and sexist. this is exactly what i’m talking about — women consistently show higher rates of suicidal ideation, self-injury, depression, anxiety, and anorexia (the deadliest mental illness!) — and yet misogynistic pigs like you constantly belittle women’s struggles by calling it a “panic attack”. i’ve shown you the evidence and this information is out there for anyone to see, and yet you still think males experiencing trauma is more important than females because you devalue women as human beings.

you claim that men’s mental health is “ignored”. this is empirically untrue. if it were true, people wouldn’t mistakenly think of PTSD as a “men’s war veteran disorder” or self-harm as “male behavior”. you wouldn’t be here right now making the very false claim that men suffer more from suicidality and self-injury, even when the literal opposite is true. women are three times more likely to suffer from mental disorders than men, ESPECIALLY the most deadly ones. anorexia, which is 90% female, has a death/suicide rate of TWENTY PERCENT. even major depressive disorder is more common among women than men. it’s provable medical misogyny that women are dismissed and ignored when showing mental illness symptoms. because “women are supposed to diet”, or “girls cut themselves for attention”, or “girls are always crying over something stupid”. just look at popular media — female hollywood stars and models are all starving themselves and normalizing this idea that being sad and hungry and suicidal is normal if you’re female.

and yet you want to complain that MEN are the ones being ignored in the conversation of mental health? give me a fucking break.

ms-revived-frogs

Men's mental health is not nearly as ignored as women's is systematically by the healthcare industry. What does it say when women are far less likely to be taken seriously when it comes to getting diagnosed, so that they are either misdiagnosed or undiagnosed entirely?

Why women with serious mental illness often get worse care than men

drenren

This is all great but are we ignoring “back in nom”. Do you think nom is a code word for general war and not ‘nam aka Vietnam

owls-garden-deactivated20231123

Yeah the Vietnam war invented ptsd it’s an American man disease

crimeschild

plain-flavoured-english

Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.

If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.

saxifraga-x-urbium

Thank you this is the first post about self love that hasn’t made me want to throw things

doubleca5t

Besides the anti-trans stuff, is it bad that I agree with a lot of what radfems say? Like for example, I think the porn industry is very evil and some people aren’t critical of it enough, as sites like PornHub facilitate trafficking and the existence of violent acted-out porn itself has awful affects on men and women alike for different reasons (though I wouldn’t blame any individual sex worker for this).

Radfems will sometimes say things that, on their face, make sense, but fall apart as soon as you start looking further into them. Their anti porn points are a good example. The porn industry is abusive. Performers are underpaid and taken advantage of both financially and sexually. Tube sites do make it way too easy for people to upload videos of csa or sexual assault, and there's evidence of this happening on many occasions. A lot of people (esp young men) do learn all the wrong lessons about sex from porn and develop an unhealthy relationship with sex because of it.

The issue is that radfems believe that these problems are inherent to porn, rather than the product of other societal forces. Performers are abused so frequently both because the institutions meant to protect victims of sexual assault and workplace abuse are woefully bad at serving their intended fuctions, and because these performers are not respected as workers to begin with. Despite how many people watch porn on a regular basis, performers are not viewed as "real" workers doing "real" work, because what they are doing is stigmatized by a misogynistic, puritanical society. People develop toxic attitudes about sex from watching porn because sex education doesn't teach you what is and isn't normal or pleasurable during sex and people do not communicate with their partners about what they actually want. The problems with porn do not exist because porn in and of itself is misogynistic, they exist because porn, like everything else in our society, is affected by patriarchy.

that1betch-deactivated20230628

There's no way to make rape a job. Being raped isn't work. Filming it does not make it work. Being raped is not labor.

Money is power. Using power to get sex is rape. Porn is rape on tape.

"Under capitalism all labor is coerced!" Yes, and what do you call coerced sex? That's rape.

If you don't want to have the sex itself, you only want the money, you're being raped. If you dissociate and go somewhere else mentally, you're being raped. If you need cocaine or other drugs to get through a scene, you're being raped.

Prostitution is rape. Filmed Prostitution is still rape.

Jacking off to rape desensitizes you.

blackswallowtailbutterfly

“Prostitution is, in reality, very simple. It is sex between two people—between one who wants it and one who doesn’t. Since desire is absent, payment takes its place. This inequality of lust is the basis of all prostitution, be it “VIP escort services” or the modern slavery of trafficking. The same condition is always present: one person wants to have sex, one doesn’t. Money may get the buyer “consent” and even fake appreciation during the act, but it only highlights the fact that the other party has sex even though s/he does not really want to. No matter how much is said or done to cover this up, if there were mutual desire, there wouldn’t be any payment—and we all know it.”

— Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self (via reading-blog)

snovyda

Today is the Holodomor Rememberance Day, when we honor the memory of approximately 4 million Ukrainians starved to death in the soviet man-made famine of 1932-1933.

Millions of present day Ukrainians have family stories about relatives perishing, acts of cannibalism, or just insanity because of the famine.

The world chose to ignore it at the time, this crime (as well as all the similar soviet crimes) went unpunished. Those few who tried to shine a light on it (like the Welsh reporter Gareth Jones) were silenced or just not listened to.

And now we have yet another genocide happening.

Unpunished evil always only escalates.

joykillerrr

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mapsontheweb

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divinedionne

Wow what an underground marginalized community that…….has the sanctioned legal support of like 85% of the world , including areas still regressive and abusive towards against women and homosexuals.

thatsonemorbidcorvid

opabiniawillreturn-deactivated2

PLers can't genuinely tell me THAT has a heartbeat

hellnrage43

What they call a "heartbeat" is actually cardiac pole activity. It means that someday, if the pregnancy is allowed to continue without disruption, there could be a heart in there that could have a heartbeat.

Which is obviously an OK thing to make a woman lose her bodily autonomy for. This. A clump of cells.