{"id":83857,"date":"2022-11-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83857"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:18:40","slug":"dubious-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83857","title":{"rendered":"Dubious Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gen Z has a shockingly high suicide rate<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The new data suggests Gen Z – or the generation of Americans born during 1997 onward<\/a> – might be seeing a mental health crisis even worse than that faced by the older millennial generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2014, millennials (or people who turned 23 to 38 in 2019) have seen a 47% increase in major-depression diagnoses. “Deaths of despair,” or dying from suicide, alcohol, and drugs, increased in the millennial population in the last 10 years, and they are more likely to report feeling lonely than other generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the article doesn’t break suicide out by sex, men in general are four times more likely to commit suicide than women<\/a>, and I’m seeing no reason to think GenZ men are any different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s get this straight – bad things happen when you raise a generation of men disproportionately without fathers? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you pathologize and medicate boyhood traits ’til boys check out of higher education – men are now 40% of college students, headed toward 33% at this rate, which in turn limits their potential for a life partner, since women have an evolutionary preference for men who are more <\/em>capable of providing, not less?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While labeling male traits “toxic” and actively demonizing them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or while mocking and taunting them – look at who plays the buffoon in most advertisements today; while it’s mostly white men, black men are moving into the role more and more. It’s not hard to imagine an 18 year old, coming into a world with a straitened future, where masculinity is demonized and popular culture seems to be grooming you for a future as an impotent nebbish who will at best be the comic relief for a (inevitably, in pop culture) strong, powerful woman, and at worst a villain in waiting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bad things happen to people who grow up that way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huh. Weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not sure we could have lost a generation any more effectively if we’d sent them to fight in the trenches of Flanders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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