if you dont care about the suicide rate of trans men/mascs because it “reminds you of mras” then youre not actually serious about fighting transphobia. you just want an acceptable punching bag and will shit on minorities if it means making yourself feel better.
imagine saying you dont care about the suicide rate of queer women or the murder rate of queer man. you are no different than any other bog-standard bigot.
Being afraid to worry about suicide rates is awful. Full stop.
And real MRAs don’t worry about the actual suicides; what MRAs are concerned with is making feminists doubt themselves, trying to make them believe that dismantling the patriarchy is a bad cause. Because in the MRA state of mind, it’s feminists that are killing men, not the patriarchy itself.
Hot take: igoring the suicide rates of people with non-feminine genders means you’re far closer to the radical “feminists” that fill comment sections with ‘Misandry isn’t real YET!’ and “Let’s make that male suicide rate higher!” You don’t have to worry about looking like an MRA if this is what you’re emulating, if you’re not afraid to be reminiscent of reactionary radical “feminists.”
If you’re afraid to acknowledge high suicide rates just because of the gender of the people killing themselves, fuck you.
also ngl, making fun of the male suicide rate is just like, it really just stinks of bigoted erasure of marginalized ppl (and in some cases also the gleeful encouragement of the suicide of marginalized ppl) . How many of the “men commiting suicide” from those rates are queer men? How many are trans women who never came out? How many of them are men of color whose lives were ruined by racism? How many of them were intersex? How many were poor men committing to escape the horrors of poverty? How many were disabled? How many were facing severe religious prosecution? You assume that bc the statistics are counting “men” that only people with systemic power are being counted, that their suffering doesn’t matter bc the only thing that matters is that when a surveyor counted numbers they marked them down as “men” ergo no other axis of suffering matters. Its sickening, they’re actively laughing at the suicides of marginalized ppl bc the only thing they care about is the gender some statistics person put on a chart.
MRA - Men’s Rights Activist
Actually it’s disabled rights activist to you bc the only thing in common with everyone who committed suicide was that the trauma and mental illness they experienced was severe enough that death seemed to be the better option. That’s not even accounting for the suicides that weren’t suicides but were actually hate crimes that got covered up. Pointing out that marginalized men exist is not the same as acting as if women opress men tyvm.
“To you”, like, to me? I was providing a definition for an acronym I had to look up. I was not making a statement of any kind.