Suicide is the leading cause of death among males in their 40s.
Four out of five suicide victims are male.
This is a long article, it may be too long for you, but near the end the answer becomes obvious;
http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/05/22/...-and-epidemic-and-what-we-can-do-to-help.html
Most mass killers are men, too. How many of these suicides are committed after a mass killing. Is that because they are driven to those crimes by women? Do you think some woman drove Adam Lanza to kill those children at Sandy Hook and then shoot himself?
Perhaps you should temper your tendency to make assumptions? Why would this article be "too long" for me? Are you assuming that because I am a woman? Are we supposed to lack the attention span of men because of our hormones? I have actually read
War and Peace (1869) two times and several other rather long novels including
Anna Karenina (1878) Mann's
Joseph and His Brothers (1933-1943), Musil's
The Man Without Qualities (1930) and Proust's
Remembrance of Things Past (published posthumously from 1924-1927) I doubt I will find a simple article in
Newsweek "too long;" too boring and banal, probably, but certainly not "too long." I can't wait until I get to the part where the statistics are. Too bad you couldn't just post them and save me the trouble of scanning for them. I would guess that any suicides that men think they commit because of women are the result of their own unhealthy obsessions, and not a result of the actions of the women they obsess over. We will always probably disagree on this because as Darla's signature shows, blaming the woman is Biblical! And absolutely none of this has anything to do with children finding guns and shooting other children with them! I guess you didn't really want to argue that issue!
Edited after reading
Newsweek article:
Further after reading that article in it's entirety I still don't see where it says what you claim it says and in fact it says this:
"In wealthy countries, suicide is the leading cause of death for men in their 40s, a top-five killer of men in their 50s, and the burden of suicide has increased by double digits in both groups since 1990.
The situation is even more dramatic for white, middle-aged women, who experienced a 60 percent rise in suicide in that same period, a shift accompanied by a comparable increase in emergency-room visits for drug-related (usually prescription-drug-related) attempts to die."
The Venn diagram that is supposed to explain the motivation and possibility for suicide lists three conditions: "Thwarted Belongingness" (his father's lack of friends in retirement); "Perceived Burdensomeness" (people who have suffered an illness unemployment or other condition that makes them dependent on others); and Capability For Suicide (not being afraid to die). I would offer that the opposite might be the case here, that being afraid to die can cause people to commit suicide because it gives them control over their own death. I don't put much stock in academics or what they think about things. But while I don't agree with much here, I do agree that suicide is a multiply determined act. I don't believe that people commit suicide because their girl friend leaves them; I think people commit suicide for a strong combination of reasons that probably varies from one individual to another which is why it is so hard to effectively prevent or predict who will and who won't commit suicide. But I found nothing in this article that attributed the increasingly high rates of suicide among the most suicide prone groups those of "athletes, doctors, prostitutes, and bulimics" and those "who tamp down" the desire to scream, to women or their body parts.
In fact, there was no relationship incontrovertibly established between women's actions and the suicide of men. The author that the article profiles claims that his father killed himself because in his retirement years he had no close male friends, not because of anything his wife did to him. Perhaps you can show me where this article demonstrates or says that men kill themselves because of what women do to them. The only indication that suicide may be related to interpersonal relationships is the increased suicide rate among divorcees. But there was no statistics on whether or not more men or women were more likely to kill themselves after their divorces, although the article did stress that far more women attempted suicide and failed than men did. The article also indicated that women with children were less likely to kill themselves. Something that was evidently not true of men, because for some reason men evidently can't bond with their children in the same way that women do. Or the bond established by men doesn't prevent men from committing suicide. Again the article was fairly and uncomfortably ambiguous in nearly all particulars and made several rather problematic claims that were simply posited almost as opinions.
Mostly the article was distressing because it seemed to promise far more than it delivered. I have no better idea about what causes suicide than I did before I read it and there was nothing in the article rather than anecdotal evidence to substantiate most of the claims made by you for it and the article itself.
