Award-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has revealed why men have a higher rate of dying by suicide.

Giving a speech on Wednesday at Hubspot’s 2018 Inbound Conference taking place in Boston USA, Adichie revealed that men have a higher rate of dying by suicide as opposed to women.

She attributed the situation to patriarchy, which the author says is both a blessing and a curse to men, adding that men are trained to suppress emotions, not to show vulnerability or ask for help.

She said: “Both men and women suffer from the illnesses that lead to suicide but it is men that have a much higher rate of dying by suicide.

“Why? Because men are socialized to suppress so many human parts of themselves, men are socialized not to ask for help, men are socialized to be afraid of fear, men are socialized not to show vulnerability.

“From the moment we tell a little boy that ‘boys don’t cry’ or we tell a hurting teenager to ‘man up’ we are creating an adult man who will be cheated of the full range of his emotions. So, while men benefit from patriarchy, they also suffer from it.”

The ‘Americanah’ author also spoke on gender equality, saying there is no difference between men and women, adding that women should not be viewed differently or given special treatment.

She said: “There is nothing a woman should be because she is a woman, and there is nothing a man should be because he is a man.
“Women are not special, women are human, women are flawed just like men… If we keep saying women are special, then we judge them at a higher and unfair standard.”

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/09/why-more-men-die-by-suicide-chimamanda.html

Because men have the most problems in the world.
99% of those problems being caused by women..

Was this not on FP this week ni

Real men don't commit suicide because of women or emotions.

BUHARI

In Africa, you don't need to set an alarm while you sleep, your problems will wake you up- Robert Mugabe

93Miles:
Because men have the most problems in the world.

99% of those problems being caused by women..

SUCIDE KEE U THERE.

This made it to fp already na

Most suicide by men are because of women.

The woman child is a curse to the man child.

Don't these mods communicate with each other?

ednut1:
Was this not on FP this week ni

jobless youth, nairaland don employ you abi

Watch as men will come and lambast this woman

Make this woman shut up with her crapy opinion. Isn't this the same sh*t that made front page few days back

Feminist nitwit

Surprisingly, women happens to be part of the problems too...

Basically true... Everyone deserves equal amount of love irrespective of the gender..

A woman can never pee into a coke bottle. Just one example to show u a woman can never be equal to a man. A man can still be impregnating small small girls when he is 80 years old but after 40 a woman is gone. Do much for woman activism

Okay

id4sho:

jobless youth, nairaland don employ you abi

see as he be for pic. Poverty don hammer ur life lol

A girl posted this...

4Ebiscoo:
Award-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has revealed why men have a higher rate of dying by suicide.

Giving a speech on Wednesday at Hubspot’s 2018 Inbound Conference taking place in Boston USA, Adichie revealed that men have a higher rate of dying by suicide as opposed to women.

She attributed the situation to patriarchy, which the author says is both a blessing and a curse to men, adding that men are trained to suppress emotions, not to show vulnerability or ask for help.

She said: “Both men and women suffer from the illnesses that lead to suicide but it is men that have a much higher rate of dying by suicide.

“Why? Because men are socialized to suppress so many human parts of themselves, men are socialized not to ask for help, men are socialized to be afraid of fear, men are socialized not to show vulnerability.

“From the moment we tell a little boy that ‘boys don’t cry’ or we tell a hurting teenager to ‘man up’ we are creating an adult man who will be cheated of the full range of his emotions. So, while men benefit from patriarchy, they also suffer from it.”

The ‘Americanah’ author also spoke on gender equality, saying there is no difference between men and women, adding that women should not be viewed differently or given special treatment.

She said: “There is nothing a woman should be because she is a woman, and there is nothing a man should be because he is a man.
“Women are not special, women are human, women are flawed just like men… If we keep saying women are special, then we judge them at a higher and unfair standard.”

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/09/why-more-men-die-by-suicide-chimamanda.html

I like this part

That men are socialised to be afraid of fear Is she shitting me? Like seriously

She's lying and truly doesn't believe the crap she's spewing. But being a smart Ibo woman and realizing she can make some �money talking all this nonsense, she continues to offload the nonsense message and leaving us to argue with our keyboard

How many times this article won reach front page in one week...

Chubhie:
That men are socialised to be afraid of fear Is she shitting me? Like seriously

She's actually correct
Have you ever heard the phrase
NAH MAN YOU BE...

It's because everything in a woman's body starts with B or P
It gives men high BP

I think this should be the second time this particular topic is making fp

93Miles:
Because men have the most problems in the world.

99% of those problems being caused by women..

Wrrong rather it is more of men having low social support system which is due to our socialization.

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