Suicide & The Crisis of Broken Men: An Observation & Confession of Personal Struggles

in malesuicide •  6 years ago 

Macho culture, big dick culture, social-darwinism, misandry-focused feminism, stigma against men with mental illnesses, men with disabilities, whether they be trans-men, homosexuals or straight, virgins or "fulfilled" family men, pressure to conform, perform, and to deform oneself as one is expected to in service to an uncaring unfeeling machine...

All lead up to male suicide.

Suicide is not purely a voluntary act of selfish will...it is many times an answer from the depths of an altered state of mind flooded by desperation to silence desperation.

It is truly akin to demonic possession, and is a frightful and degrading answer to a frightful and degrading question...

"Am I ever enough?"

Is a man ever enough when he leads a life of lies in accordance to the demands of a world littered with sick social constructs and sick paradigms?

Suicide is the only way, as the vulnerable and broken man sees it, to silence the unbearable pain and trauma that he endures every day, pain and trauma conditioned and reinforced by a society and culture willfully ignorant of its own capacity for evil, its deep seated cruelty, broken promises, broken social contracts and lack of support...

So, stigma is nothing but having to stifle the truth of one's authentic pain and experience because of the fear of other's responses. Like holding pieces of piercing hot coals in the throat, head and heart, being expected to just deal with it.

This lack of communication, this inability to express authenticity, is the result of a culture that upholds a different type of sick privilege needing constant examination...the vanity and the pride of having privilege itself. Privilege of the "competent", whatever that word means these days.

This sick culture of wealth, sex and lust, the constant bombardment of advertisements for male enhancement, whether that be through pills, beer or cars, is bound to make any vulnerable man feel enraged, incompetent, ashamed, and scared for his life and sanity.

If we are truly all one, all one human family, born from the same cosmic stardust and all having sovereignty, needing love, support, kindness, warmth, and liberty...then there is required a need to investigate the monstrous implications of when we assume otherwise.

Love, in all its purest and most authentic forms, is the only way out of this nightmare.
Anything else is a perpetuation of the very hells we seek to escape from.

That is all.

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