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<span style="font-size:125%">'''Discussion:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''Discussion:'''</span> | ||
It is myth that women have more suicide attempts ([https://medium.com/t/@jimpreston_36730/myth-women-attempt-suicide-more-often-than-men-bdded9044517 source]). | It is myth that women have more serious suicide attempts ([https://medium.com/t/@jimpreston_36730/myth-women-attempt-suicide-more-often-than-men-bdded9044517 source]). | ||
Instead, women generally choose less effective methods of suicide, | Instead, women generally choose less effective and less irrevocable methods of suicide (e.g overdoses as compared to [[hanging|rope]] or firearms). Many spurious cases of apparent suicide attempts are also apparently recorded as serious attempts at suicide, in the absence of more objective data of the attempt representing a true desire to die (e.g emergency room visits). | ||
Feminists commonly attribute | Feminists commonly attribute the use of less 'messy' methods of suicide among women to greater empathy with their bereaved relatives and friends,{{citation needed}} but it could also be evidence of women's lower activity level and propensity to receive emotional support by engaging in histrionic behavior, e.g. by [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_cry_four_times_as_much_as_men_and_never_outgrow_teenage_crying_behavior|crying]]. | ||
<span style="font-size:125%">'''Data:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''Data:'''</span> |
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