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Edited by explosivediahrea: 10/30/2014 7:40:07 PM
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Why Do People Go Postal, Besides "Toxic Masculinity"

Or why are there so many of them recently, anyway. So Anita Sarkeesian says "We seriously need to address connections between violence, sexism and toxic ideas of manhood before more boys and men commit more mass shootings." Well, I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with that, I can't quite wrap my head around it, in fact, so I'm posing the question. What's up with all the mass shootings and why [i]is[/i] it always a dude? Men are just more prone to violence it seems, I guess due to testosterone. There are probably about as many mentally unstable (talking the suicidal/homicidal status here) females as there are males, they're just less likely to say -blam!- it, I'm gonna get a gun and go to work. That one seems easy to me. The reason there have been so many shootings lately could be a direct consequence of the flaws in society, not that sexism isn't one of them, but is it the biggest one? Is it more directly responsible for people snapping and going pscyho than, say, prescribing mental patients narcotics and drugs that alter your brain chemistry instead of therapy designed to help them better the circumstances in their life that are holding them back? [b]I[/b] say not, what say you?

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  • It's a combination of factors, different for every case. Mental health, and access to facilities which help with that are one factor. A guy ended up being driven to snipe people from a rooftop because he had a large tumor in his brain. Suicide rates are also higher amoung men, signifying that men's needs are not being met. Societal pressures might also drive more men than women to cause physical harm. Consider bullies at school. Boys are physical, while girls are emotional in their harm (typically). When deciding that they must take an action that will probably end in their death, men will seek to cause physical harm to others, while women will seek to cause emotional harm to others. [i] [/i] [i] [/i] [i][/i] [spoiler]Things that don't cause such events: Comic books, video games, and television. Suck it, media and Concernocrats! [/spoiler]

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