Happiness and Suicide
Posted: 13 Sep 2013, 17:55
The World Happiness Report (WHR) was released on 9 September 2013, the day before World Suicide Prevention Day.
Male suicides outnumber female suicides 4 to 1. Yet this statistic is minimized or even ignored by most media, governments, charities and academics, who prefer, as always, to focus upon female victims.
The WHR states: “In most advanced countries women report higher satisfaction and happiness than men.†Then, in a stunning example of bias, the researchers rationalize their finding with this mind-bending statement: “women are relatively happier in countries where gender rights are more equal.â€
‘More equal’? The WHR report also emphasized such things as health and educational opportunities as critical to happiness. Areas which of course favour women over men in opportunities, support, and positive discrimination.
Another study, Gender and Well-Being around the World (GWBW), found the same thing: “Women around the world are happier than men, regardless of which happiness question is used.†Furthermore they, too, use double-speak: “the findings suggest that the gap is greater (i.e. women are happier) where gender rights are more equal.†Where on earth do they get the nerve to offer such a facile dismissal of such an overwhelmingly significant finding?
We don’t have to speculate on that. The authors of the WHR conducted a case study on Bhutan, one of the very few countries in the world where men were found to be happier than women. The authors conclude: “The fact that two-thirds of deeply happy people are men is of clear policy interest.â€
Whereas of course the fact that men are less happy than women in EVERY INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD is of no interest, or worse, it is evidence that gender rights are “more equal†in the industrialized countries.
The World (un)Happiness Report parallels the 4 to 1 suicide gender-imbalance, an imbalance also found in every industrialized country. That’s a whopper of a coincidence! But, inexplicably, this is of no interest to the “scientists.â€
http://www.avoiceformen.com/men/world-s ... ss-report/
Male suicides outnumber female suicides 4 to 1. Yet this statistic is minimized or even ignored by most media, governments, charities and academics, who prefer, as always, to focus upon female victims.
The WHR states: “In most advanced countries women report higher satisfaction and happiness than men.†Then, in a stunning example of bias, the researchers rationalize their finding with this mind-bending statement: “women are relatively happier in countries where gender rights are more equal.â€
‘More equal’? The WHR report also emphasized such things as health and educational opportunities as critical to happiness. Areas which of course favour women over men in opportunities, support, and positive discrimination.
Another study, Gender and Well-Being around the World (GWBW), found the same thing: “Women around the world are happier than men, regardless of which happiness question is used.†Furthermore they, too, use double-speak: “the findings suggest that the gap is greater (i.e. women are happier) where gender rights are more equal.†Where on earth do they get the nerve to offer such a facile dismissal of such an overwhelmingly significant finding?
We don’t have to speculate on that. The authors of the WHR conducted a case study on Bhutan, one of the very few countries in the world where men were found to be happier than women. The authors conclude: “The fact that two-thirds of deeply happy people are men is of clear policy interest.â€
Whereas of course the fact that men are less happy than women in EVERY INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD is of no interest, or worse, it is evidence that gender rights are “more equal†in the industrialized countries.
The World (un)Happiness Report parallels the 4 to 1 suicide gender-imbalance, an imbalance also found in every industrialized country. That’s a whopper of a coincidence! But, inexplicably, this is of no interest to the “scientists.â€
http://www.avoiceformen.com/men/world-s ... ss-report/
