[the truth]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation though, truth. The reason women have more people to talk to is because women are in general more willing to talk. The supply exists to meet the demand, in this case. There are fewer services for men seeking therapy or just someone to listen to, because fewer men are requesting or seeking out those services.

There are cultural reasons for this and probably biological reasons, too: while men and women should be equal, let's not pretend that we are the same. Women are more inclined to seek social contact and groups when they are in trouble, men are more inclined to internalise and try (often ineffectively) to deal with things alone.

Im not saying that the same things don't help both, they do, just that taking that first step in seeking it (even just going to a GP, for all sorts of issues, mental and physical) is more common for women than for men and that's why there are more services and spending is higher. I doubt it's deliberate or with any reason beyond that.

it doesn't justify whatsoever the lack of help for men...also I do not think women are remotely better at listening...another factor is men have less time because on average still they get less time off work, less are taking benefits, more worker longer hours, often in harder more physically demanding jobs...add to that almost no help with mental health far less help with all other issues , also fighting against the system in the family and divorce law courts and its a massive raft of issues that are making mens lives in this country utterly insufferable...they see no way out other than to jump off a bridge...by the way when men do talk they ALWAYS get shouted down as sexist mysoginist pigs due to the reverse sexism in this country...women sentences are tiny compared to mens, even for violent crime , even in some cases murder...they incite violence yet get away with it, why? well it would be cruel to take a mother away from her children wouldn't it? women are more crude and plain rude in in their everyday behaviour in a way men do find offensive but men don't complain because they know it wont be taken seriously...yet a woman complains and all hell breaks loose...even when it turns out to be a pack of lies in rape trials women walk free? why?

this is a war created by the rich....men and women need not fight at all....but the rich have allowed this nonsense one sided feminist lies and propaganda to go on for decades unanswered...why you ask? well theyre too busy selling weapons of mass destruction, rigging stock markets etc leave us little people argue amongst ourselves