Why do you believe females make up for 85% of self-injurers?

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Inspired by intro to sociology class and textbook, what do you think contributes to this? In my textbook, it says that feminist researchers believe the reason behind it is because females are pushed by society to attend to their bodies by hair removal, skin treatments, and depigmentation. Do you believe this or do you have another theory?

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Dudes are less likely to ask for help because it shows they're weak. The data isn't an accurate representation because of that, so of course it's going to show that women account for a higher percentage. Women are also more likely to have a support system to tell them that they need help if they don't initially seek it out for themselves.

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Feminist researchers can also be pretty biased. It’s a lot more to it than aesthetics. Mental illness, childhood trauma, abusive relationships. Society does play a significant role, yes. But society also impacts men as well.

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I know self harm covers a lot of areas, but if I’m not mistaken (I could be), don’t men have the highest suicide rates?

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Eh, I don’t know. I don’t trust mental health studies because they rarely factor in things like differing cultural views and expectations or religious views on MI.

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I self harmed in high school and it had nothing to do with society’s pressure to keep up my appearance. I think it’s mostly a cry for help and men are less likely to seek that help.

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Hm. I didn’t know that was the case. I don’t fully understand that theory. Is it saying because women are used to altering and undergoing pain for their bodies through accepted means, that they do so for therapeutic reasons as well? Idk if therapeutic is the right word but hopefully you know what I mean by that.

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Excluding societal pressures to be X, Y, Z. 
A lot of it has to do with our health concerns (physical and mental) are not taken seriously. I don’t know for how long I heard the trope “Women don’t have heart attacks or strokes” or “Your pain is all in your head.” 
Also due to our hormones we are already dispositioned to be depressed or anxious.  The pressure we face from society only doubles what we already deal with. 
Plus we have family expectations and other expectations from work or whatever else we do.

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Men are taught to be more private about their feelings so probably have lower rates of self report. My boyfriend used to, which actually surprised me because it is seen as such a female thing

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TRIGGER WARNING: Does this constitute suicide attempts? Could the statistic be like this because women often fail at suicide because they choose self Injurous behaviours as opposed to methods like gun to the head etc. Maybe I am just looking at this through a different lense and overthinking

Why do you believe females make up for 85% of self-injurers?

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